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Cities redo streets for pedestrians, cyclists, transit
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New Urban News Article with images, 12/1/2007
“Complete Streets” movement presses a growing number of cities to plan for multimodal transportation.
In 2003, bicyclists intent on obtaining safer routes for cycling concluded that they needed a slogan — one that would communicate their goal to the public clearly and forcefully. Instead of continuing to appeal for “routine accommodation” — the bureaucratic phrase they’d been relying on up to that point — they started demanding “Complete Streets.”

Biking needs a boost in American cities
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New Urban News Article with images and graphs, 6/1/2008
The US, where cycling is risky and rare, can learn from a Rutgers study of the top cycling countries in Europe.
Among new urbanists, bicycling rarely gets the attention that walking and pedestrian-oriented development do. But if many more people could be enticed  to use bicycles rather than cars, the effect on communities could be very beneficial.