Day to day, month to month, progress for bike advocates in North America is slow and hard-won. New projects still take enormous political capital to build, and when they’re built, they’re often piecemeal parts of an infrastructure network that will take decades to complete. Because of that, the number of bicyclists grows by fractions of a percentage at a time.
Image: Cyclists on Portland’s car-free Tilikum Crossing bridge (AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez)