Bike lanes have failed in America because they’re not safe enough and they don’t connect.

The solution, at least in the abstract, is simple: build safe, complete bike networks. And not just at some theoretical point in the future. Now.

Ezra Klein, the New York Times columnist and author of Abundance says it best “We should be able to deliver dramatic changes to public infrastructure quickly.” We have to reject the assumption that a complete bike network is a 30-year, multi-generational project. Every bike master plan must have a realistic plan of attack that answers the question: How are we going to build this in the next few years?