🚲Bike JC🗽

"We hope to see solidarity rides or displays in U.S. cities — and when your bike lanes come under attack, you can expect the same from us." usa.streetsblog.org/2026/10/27/o... via @usa.streetsblog.org

Your semi-regular reminder that the best greenway in the world is quietly under construction in our city right now

"Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom." —E.F. Schumacher

Congrats to Toronto and Vancouver voters who chose to show up for safe cycling in key election victories. momentummag.com/cycling-gets...

*I* got to have fun making this drawing of a dog riding a bicycle while making coffee with a gooseneck kettle and a Chemex and *YOU* get to have fun enjoying free pourover at Canco Park next week courtesy of @bikejc.org and ModCup Coffee and then ride with Volition Ride Co if you wanna.

We're hosting our first Pedal and Pourover ride! Meet at Canco Park, 9 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1st for coffee (thanks to ModCup for generously donating beans). After we're all caffeinated, you can tag along for a casual ride to Lincoln Park, or join our friends from Volition for their Sunday shop ride.

#JCcrashes Following up on the crash this week at Montgomery and Merseles, hearing a cyclist was hit by a driver at Grand & Center / Merseles today @bikejc.org

Please donate to our Bike Lane Protest Fund: gofund.me/4b115029b 4 have been arrested & require criminal lawyers, daily protests need snacks & hot coffee etc. Be among the first 50 to donate & get a free hi vis vest (email info@thebikinglawyer.ca with proof of donation - no min amount) 1/2

I need to run a bike errand, but this time of evening, motorists are flying around in a post-work, distracted rage, so I'll wait a little longer to go.

Federal funding for roads and bridges goes disproportionately to places with: —More highways —More driving —More crashes —More white people That means there's a lot more per-capita money going to metropolitan areas in the "interior"—not on the coasts.

In our interview with David Saltonstall of the Central Park Conservancy, we discussed bike lanes, the redesign of Central Park's drives, and more. buff.ly/CpLm6li

Bike Lane Standoff Continues on Bloor St. W. in TO as Construction Crews Forced to Leave Again #safecycling #saferroads #ebikes tinyurl.com/yt9mf5n5

I'm going to make Greek-inspired chickpea soup and need ingredients. I'm also the daytime caregiver for our daughter. So how will I run this errand? By cargo bike, of course! First I arrive with everything I need. The stroller (on front), baby, and our grocery bag are all in the @bunchbike.com.

Reminds me of the time they interviewed the designer of the 2020 GMC Sierra and he said he wanted the interior to look like you were looking into the barrel of a gun and I feel like that should have been the end of designing pickup trucks

Went to Clever Cycles on Hawthorne and got a basket for my bike! My first haul was a big pumpkin to carve for Halloween 🎃

Weekly grocery run on the @ternbicycles.com HSD. Love this little workhorse. 😁

This is the 2nd infill station Sacramento's opened on its light rail system in a month. The previous one was at Dos Rios on the Blue Line, on September 28th.

Cities everywhere are discussing the dangers of e-bikes in cities.

biketalk.org/2026/10/vote...

Build solid traffic calming devices BECAUSE drunk drivers will hit them... instead of hitting people.

I wrote this Vox article explaining why state roads are such intractable obstacles for urban street safety. TL;DR: State DOTs refuse to fix urban roads, and also won't transfer control. IMO Congress should create a generous matching grant program to entice state DOTs and local gov's to make a deal.

Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, & city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.

"Montclair is taking a new approach to driving home the 25-mph speed limit on Upper Mountain Avenue." montclairlocal.news/2026/10/new-...

I got limited edition Jersey City public library card, and it's really beautiful. I want to post it, but I don't want to make ya'll jealous LOL.

STARTER PACKS from credible sources are still a key way to find great accounts to follow, and also to BUILD GREAT COMMUNITIES here on Bluesky. They’ve been key for the Urbanist community here. This one supported global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America. I hope you’ll follow them, and SHARE IT.

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NJ Transit riders will face detours and delays for the second time this year as workers complete a bridge replacement. Tuesday is the first regular workday of the five-week project. Follow updates.

Over the holiday weekend, reckless drivers hit and killed five New Yorkers in Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

"SafeWalkr has features that other mapping programs don’t have, the students said. Their program tells users which streets have sidewalks, for instance, and it recommends which side of the road to walk on." Their principal "considers the practice [of walking to school] to be a 'lost art'"

I'm told it's impossible to bring home well over 100lb of stuff from Costco with a bike.

We finally got the yellow stripe down the 2-way Borden Avenue. Now I don't have to yell back at drivers that I'm not going the wrong way. There are two not-so-good sections where parked cars narrow it. But it is so much better than prior. Gamechanger. @misernyc.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org

Keeping bike lanes clean keeps them safe. Debris from cars and landscaping quickly accumulates, creating hazards for riders. If your city isn't sweeping protected lanes as part of standard street maintenance, it is time to demand it.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.” #Dutch

“But what if you need to take two people and a pile of books to an event in Tampa? You can’t do that on a bike.” Oh yes you can!

Update on S Henderson St protected bike lanes in South Seattle: I checked them out this morning, & the Toronto style concrete mini jersey barriers & concrete curbs all appear to be complete. The bicycle signals are installed & operating but covered up. I think we’re close to them officially opening!

The 2026 Chicago Midnight Marathon bicycle ride rolling thru the streets of Chicago. #Chicago

Hallelujah! Installing NYC's first Low Traffic Neighborhood around PS 110 has started with diverter elements, paint & converting one short block to a plaza. Also a mid-block crossing to school. In the shadow of the BQE cutting off cut thru traffic access! @openplans.org @talyaschwartz.bsky.social

"Bike lanes are always empty!" Yeah, because bikes move through them quickly as opposed to getting stuck in gridlock like cars do. Well functioning infrastructure, should be empty MOST OF THE TIME. When it's not, it's a problem.

I advocate for urban design that induces more walking, biking, and public transit use, not because I expect everyone to give up their cars, but because I feel that everyone deserves options in mobility, not just one behind a paywall costing someone thousands annually to operate.

Just biked from the centre of Copenhagen to the suburb of Lyngby. Bike lanes the whole way.

Bicycle to work Calgary Oct 9, 2026 #yycBike #Calgary #BikeToWork