LindsayLovesBikes
@lindsaysturman.bsky.social
I love cities. Co-Host of podcast "Bike Talk." Advocating for the 15 minute cities and QUIMBY: Quality in my backyard. LCI-LA.com. Full of joy.
QUIMBY: Quality in my backyard
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
QUIMBY: Quality in my backyard
Demand for 15 minute cities exceeds supply by 4:1. The core typology of a walkable street is Residential-over-Retail Single Staircase buildings. Los Angeles is poised to say YES to single stair reform. If you live in LA - please consider supporting it:
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March 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Demand for 15 minute cities exceeds supply by 4:1. The core typology of a walkable street is Residential-over-Retail Single Staircase buildings. Los Angeles is poised to say YES to single stair reform. If you live in LA - please consider supporting it:
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Another version:
Corner parks
Corner parks
February 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Another version:
Corner parks
Corner parks
LA's CicLAVia is another amazing example -- the cars go away + the streets fill with people. Closing the same street for an extended CicLAVia for a week or across consecutive weekend days (4 Summer Sundays, etc) can help regular people see how biking can be a way of life.
H/t @akrubic.bsky.social
H/t @akrubic.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
LA's CicLAVia is another amazing example -- the cars go away + the streets fill with people. Closing the same street for an extended CicLAVia for a week or across consecutive weekend days (4 Summer Sundays, etc) can help regular people see how biking can be a way of life.
H/t @akrubic.bsky.social
H/t @akrubic.bsky.social
Bogota has the model: Every Sunday 1/2 the streets are closed for Ciclovia.
US cities can pilot during the summer (traffic drops) closing an entire street or network of streets consistently to let people realize it's happening, pull the bike out of storage, dust it off, and realize they love it.
US cities can pilot during the summer (traffic drops) closing an entire street or network of streets consistently to let people realize it's happening, pull the bike out of storage, dust it off, and realize they love it.
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Bogota has the model: Every Sunday 1/2 the streets are closed for Ciclovia.
US cities can pilot during the summer (traffic drops) closing an entire street or network of streets consistently to let people realize it's happening, pull the bike out of storage, dust it off, and realize they love it.
US cities can pilot during the summer (traffic drops) closing an entire street or network of streets consistently to let people realize it's happening, pull the bike out of storage, dust it off, and realize they love it.
A "1%" or "2%" city could grow their pro-bike base by 40-80X.
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A "1%" or "2%" city could grow their pro-bike base by 40-80X.
We don't know the tipping point to get to "good enough" so we get to Dutch level biking (80-90%). But if we can get there on 1 street, people experience Dutch-safe biking, we could grow the community of supporters.
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We don't know the tipping point to get to "good enough" so we get to Dutch level biking (80-90%). But if we can get there on 1 street, people experience Dutch-safe biking, we could grow the community of supporters.
Are we limiting ourselves with frameworks like "Level of Traffic Stress" and LTS?
"Stress" is not the right word for people who want to bike but don't because of bad bike lanes. Better words are: "terrified" and "nauseous" and "NFW."
"Stress" is not the right word for people who want to bike but don't because of bad bike lanes. Better words are: "terrified" and "nauseous" and "NFW."
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Are we limiting ourselves with frameworks like "Level of Traffic Stress" and LTS?
"Stress" is not the right word for people who want to bike but don't because of bad bike lanes. Better words are: "terrified" and "nauseous" and "NFW."
"Stress" is not the right word for people who want to bike but don't because of bad bike lanes. Better words are: "terrified" and "nauseous" and "NFW."
Something we don't talk about enough: how much building bike lanes for only the 1% or 8% limits the advocacy of the bike community. We know 80% of people will bike when it's safe. But we pretty much only build lanes for 1% (sharrows) + 8% -people who fit into the category of the "fit and the brave."
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Something we don't talk about enough: how much building bike lanes for only the 1% or 8% limits the advocacy of the bike community. We know 80% of people will bike when it's safe. But we pretty much only build lanes for 1% (sharrows) + 8% -people who fit into the category of the "fit and the brave."
Cars are the #1 cause of death for kids, kill 40k Americans/year, overwhelm our cities, pollute the air and are destroying the planet.
So why is the bike cause so hard? Would creating at least some 80% lanes help the cause, and show skeptics what they are missing?
So why is the bike cause so hard? Would creating at least some 80% lanes help the cause, and show skeptics what they are missing?
December 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Cars are the #1 cause of death for kids, kill 40k Americans/year, overwhelm our cities, pollute the air and are destroying the planet.
So why is the bike cause so hard? Would creating at least some 80% lanes help the cause, and show skeptics what they are missing?
So why is the bike cause so hard? Would creating at least some 80% lanes help the cause, and show skeptics what they are missing?
The evidence shows that to scale up bike mode share, it is safety.
Not these excuses:
-the weather
-the country
-whether there’s a shower at the office
-the shoes or outfit people need to wear
-whether you care about climate change
Bikes scale when it’s safe, & then 80-90% of people bike.
Not these excuses:
-the weather
-the country
-whether there’s a shower at the office
-the shoes or outfit people need to wear
-whether you care about climate change
Bikes scale when it’s safe, & then 80-90% of people bike.
December 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM
The evidence shows that to scale up bike mode share, it is safety.
Not these excuses:
-the weather
-the country
-whether there’s a shower at the office
-the shoes or outfit people need to wear
-whether you care about climate change
Bikes scale when it’s safe, & then 80-90% of people bike.
Not these excuses:
-the weather
-the country
-whether there’s a shower at the office
-the shoes or outfit people need to wear
-whether you care about climate change
Bikes scale when it’s safe, & then 80-90% of people bike.
In the US, the data for top 100 bike cities shows a ceiling for bike mode share of 8%.
Exceptions, Davis, Boulder, Berkeley are college towns - students developmentally engage in riskier behavior, walkable campus and students usually can’t afford a car. The exceptions almost prove the rule:
Exceptions, Davis, Boulder, Berkeley are college towns - students developmentally engage in riskier behavior, walkable campus and students usually can’t afford a car. The exceptions almost prove the rule:
December 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM
In the US, the data for top 100 bike cities shows a ceiling for bike mode share of 8%.
Exceptions, Davis, Boulder, Berkeley are college towns - students developmentally engage in riskier behavior, walkable campus and students usually can’t afford a car. The exceptions almost prove the rule:
Exceptions, Davis, Boulder, Berkeley are college towns - students developmentally engage in riskier behavior, walkable campus and students usually can’t afford a car. The exceptions almost prove the rule:
Yes but there is a tiny pool of people willing to use painted lanes.
1% are fearless / risk-tolerant enough to use scary bike infrastructure
8% will use NYC-Portland-level bike lanes
80% will bike in a Dutch bike network.
1% are fearless / risk-tolerant enough to use scary bike infrastructure
8% will use NYC-Portland-level bike lanes
80% will bike in a Dutch bike network.
December 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Yes but there is a tiny pool of people willing to use painted lanes.
1% are fearless / risk-tolerant enough to use scary bike infrastructure
8% will use NYC-Portland-level bike lanes
80% will bike in a Dutch bike network.
1% are fearless / risk-tolerant enough to use scary bike infrastructure
8% will use NYC-Portland-level bike lanes
80% will bike in a Dutch bike network.
And an even bigger point - will they bring the full force of their energy to pass THAT legislation— bc it’s very easy to kill something, and hard to build things — especially great things — like a street for people to stroll, shop & linger. And that needs slow cars - and a way to enforce it.
December 9, 2024 at 1:20 AM
And an even bigger point - will they bring the full force of their energy to pass THAT legislation— bc it’s very easy to kill something, and hard to build things — especially great things — like a street for people to stroll, shop & linger. And that needs slow cars - and a way to enforce it.
We can flip the script by urban planning: we can decide where we want housing and what we want to look like (ie high-quality starter homes in walkable communities etc) — identify the location, the height and style (residential over retail, 3 stories) and make THAT easy to build.
December 8, 2024 at 4:36 PM
We can flip the script by urban planning: we can decide where we want housing and what we want to look like (ie high-quality starter homes in walkable communities etc) — identify the location, the height and style (residential over retail, 3 stories) and make THAT easy to build.
Cities need traffic arteries - big streets that carry fast cars. But it doesn’t have to be every street. A famous charette created the “every other street” plan for LA - alternating fast streets and slow streets — ie a fast road and a slow street. So everyone had access to both.
December 6, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Cities need traffic arteries - big streets that carry fast cars. But it doesn’t have to be every street. A famous charette created the “every other street” plan for LA - alternating fast streets and slow streets — ie a fast road and a slow street. So everyone had access to both.
$300 / month !
$1000 in Manhattan
$1000 in Manhattan
December 6, 2024 at 12:25 AM
$300 / month !
$1000 in Manhattan
$1000 in Manhattan
And if you speed the cars up you don’t get more cars through the system —because drivers stagger more at higher speeds. At 20mph a lane carries the same number of cars at 70mph. There’s no way to fix traffic except to get people out of cars. Here’s the math:
December 3, 2024 at 10:50 PM
And if you speed the cars up you don’t get more cars through the system —because drivers stagger more at higher speeds. At 20mph a lane carries the same number of cars at 70mph. There’s no way to fix traffic except to get people out of cars. Here’s the math:
If we want people to Bike, we need to make it safe. And safety, especially for parents, is an on / off switch. It’s not incremental. If it’s deadly, we almost universally opt out.
December 2, 2024 at 2:01 PM
If we want people to Bike, we need to make it safe. And safety, especially for parents, is an on / off switch. It’s not incremental. If it’s deadly, we almost universally opt out.
Land use with bikes
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Land use with bikes
(little less stress = little more biking). All the evidence says the decision is binary and ON / OFF. When it's binary, then all the mini-steps to get to ON don't change the outcome. Definitely make it slightly safer for current bikers, but the city still has to get the lanes to ON or it's OFF.
November 29, 2024 at 5:49 PM
(little less stress = little more biking). All the evidence says the decision is binary and ON / OFF. When it's binary, then all the mini-steps to get to ON don't change the outcome. Definitely make it slightly safer for current bikers, but the city still has to get the lanes to ON or it's OFF.
Land is a small sliver of the cost of housing (blue wedge of the pie = land and construction). Cities add red/pink/yellow: parking, red tape, delays, fees, rules. In CA, a tiny number of projects "penciling out" + get built, so housing demand outpaces supply & the shortage sends rents skyrocketing.
November 29, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Land is a small sliver of the cost of housing (blue wedge of the pie = land and construction). Cities add red/pink/yellow: parking, red tape, delays, fees, rules. In CA, a tiny number of projects "penciling out" + get built, so housing demand outpaces supply & the shortage sends rents skyrocketing.
People say no one will bike in winter… yes because no one straps on winter gear to zoom thru the snow and enjoy it…
November 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
People say no one will bike in winter… yes because no one straps on winter gear to zoom thru the snow and enjoy it…
And make it look like this…
November 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
And make it look like this…