Top 10 new bike projects in North America in 2015


Despite slow and hard-won progress for bike advocates across North America, says Next City writer Josh Cohen, there were plenty of victories worth celebrating in 2015. He details 10 such inspiring projects, mostly new protected bike lanes and street intersections along with the new Tilikum Crossing Bridge in Portland, Ore.

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In 2015, Cohen writes, "North American cities took some important steps with new, high-quality, physically separated bike infrastructure — the kind that helps more people feel comfortable riding, which in turn encourages DOTs to build more infrastructure, which then gets more people riding, and so on."

Greater Cincinnati had a few biking wins in 2015, including still-protected bike lanes on Central Parkway and Red Bike's expansion into Northern Kentucky, and real progress on the Wasson Way and Oasis Line paths is expected this year.

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