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The new downtown Bicycle Station has opened in the 411 Building on Locust Street between 10th and 11th in downtown St. Louis. Commuters can store their bikes and use facilities like lockers and showers before going to work. Next door, in the same space, Urban Shark is working hard on getting their downtown bike shop ready for the Grand Opening on April 28th.

WHYY's Elizabeth Fiedler traveled to 13th and Spruce Streets to speak with the city's Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities, Rina Cutler, about the city's plans to paint bike lanes on 10th and 13th Streets.

The city of Philadelphia will announce plans Friday to paint new bike lanes on 10th and 13th streets.

Dr. Frank Gilson is recuperating from a bad case of road rash — not from ill-fitting cycling shorts, but from a grueling encounter with San Francisco’s bike plan.

Dr. Gilson, a chiropractor, said that when he left his Division Street clinic one evening last November, he found a $65 ticket on his car. The street parking that he and his patients had used had been removed during the day and replaced by a bike lane.

Sitting astride a big, gray bicycle at the head of a long line of traffic on City Road last month, I studied the 20 or more other cyclists who were — with varying degrees of skill and impatience — crossing the intersection on a red light. Some were swerving among startled and cursing pedestrians, bells ringing; others had expertly timed a slalom between four lanes of cars. What all these cyclists shared, however, was a sense of liberating entitlement.