Here are three charts showing how Minneapolis ranks compared to other cities (such as Portland, OR) in terms of bicycle commute-to-work mode share as measured by the ACS Census Data (an annual in-depth door-to-door survey). While each of these charts use the same data, they look very different! The first is through 2011, and shows a […]
Welcome to the very first Transpo Convo! This is a brand new ongoing series in which I interview people about their transportation use. In this first installment I share a few highlights from my conversation with Mohamed F., where we gab about bike lanes, transit pricing, and what Metro Transit could learn about rider experience from Nairobi’s matatu culture. […]
These two charts come from the US Census (ACS data), via this nice little post over at Vox. Two hopefully un-surprising facts: poor people are most likely to bike and walk, and per capita, bicycling is most popular with Latinos. (Of course, Minnesota-specific data would look a lot different than this…)
The Federal Non-Motorized Pilot Project, where Minneapolis was one of four places in the US to receive lots of money to entice new bicyclists and pedestrians, recently published another report on the progress they’ve made. Here are some Minneapolis-specific charts from it…
The Minnesota Department of Public Transportation has released a draft of its new five-year Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) at http://www.dot.state.mn.us/safetyplan/pdf/2014_SHSP_060914.pdf I encourage people to read the plan and comment on it. The public only has until July 8 to make comments. Comments should be sent to [email protected] Below are my own comments. They’re super wonky […]
Yesterday morning Andrea Boeve of Steen, MN was killed while riding her bicycle along MN 270 with her two children in a tow-behind trailer. She was killed by Christopher Weber who was driving a pickup truck. He was apparently paying more attention to his cell phone than to the road and likely just barely crossed […]
Distance cycled in Britain annually since 1949, adjusted for population change, up to 2013. This is an interesting chart that really puts things into perspective. It’s from the UK, but I’d bet that the US numbers aren’t dramatic departures from this kind of pattern. [Via Mark Treasure @aseasyasriding, stats from “ DfT table TRA0401 and […]
For some time I’ve maintained that riding a bicycle safely on the road in the U.S. is, relative to driving a car, fairly safe. My reasoning was based largely on statistics indicating that bicycle fatalities generally make up about 2% of all road fatalities in the U.S., a modal share of about 1% (EG, about […]
While bicycling remains marginal, it is growing like gangbusters in every age cohort. This is a helpful thing to remember, as we often imagine that the only people riding bicycles are young people. [Taken from this report.]
National Bike Challenge Update: Streets.mn is currently in 67th place (of 92) and MNDOT is 44th. It’s not to late to join and show your support for streets.mn. EVERY rider counts. Even if you only ride one day per week it will help. —— In April I had the opportunity to spend a week in […]