In partnership between PeopleForBikes and the Alliance for Biking & Walking, Building Equity: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Protected Bike Lanes is a 36-page "idea book for fairer cities," and it has three main ingredients:

• Profiles of 10 very different people of color from around the country who are, for diverse reasons, advocating for protected bike lanes in their communities.
• Data-rich explorations of the role protected bike lanes have played in advancing equity in Colombia, Denmark and China.
• A collection of statistics, new and old, about the intersections of race, ethnicity, income and bike infrastructure, including some from a major new statistically valid survey of U.S. biking habits.

We were guided in this project by a review committee of eight transportation equity experts from around the country who work in city government, transportation consulting, advocacy and academia. We were also inspired by, and aimed to keep building on, the groundbreaking work of our friends at the League of American Bicyclists.

We hope this report can be a tool to help people of every stripe advance their thinking about equity, diversity and their connection to urban infrastructure.

In the words of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, every neighborhood should have protected bike lanes because bicycling is "for everybody, in every neighborhood." But like all urban policies, protected bike lanes can divide us and our cities when done wrong.

Like the city officials who helped inspire this project, we're committed to using these tools in ways that advance equity, social justice and the many other wonderful things that excellent biking can help bring to a city.