Seattle's Emerging Bicycle Infrastructure

The Seattle Times' Alexa Vaughn reports on the efforts of Seattleites to build bicycle buffers on the city's roads.  In some cases, pro-bike activists have even taken matters into their own hands--they have simply built buffers--flexible plastic pylons, pictured above--on their own.  The city was going to take them down, but then, happily, thought better of it.

And so the barriers remain, keeping motorists and bicyclists safely separate.

America needs lots more of that kind of positive new infrastructure.   And the broadest possible constituency for making all modes of travel as safe and efficient and sustainable as possible.