Sentences with phrase «car traffic bike»

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In addition to alerting you to the presence of cars, the bike also employes LED lights synced with a mobile phone to provide directions, and its companion app will devise quicker, smoother routes using road and traffic data gathered from other Valour riders.

The traffic safety campaign is geared to kids preschool - aged to 1st grade and focus on four main areas: pedestrian, bus, bike and car seat safety.

The majority of respondents had a negative view of car, bus and bike travel in town, and 73 percent took issue with traffic flow on major streets.

The «widespread abuses» included unmarked police cars cutting through protected bike lanes, wrong - way bicycle traffic, and pedestrians and parked cars blocking cycling lanes.

To account for this we need to make sure that streets can handle the car, bike and pedestrian traffic of an expanding population.

They designed streets that slowed car traffic and incorporated bike lanes.

Exposure to heavy traffic — whether you're traveling by car, bike, or public transit — may double your risk of a heart attack, according to a German study.

Many astute Dream Cruisers have long parked their cars Saturday in favor of biking up and down Woodward, including my Motor Trend colleague Frank Markus, but the fact that more and more observers are biking instead of driving might start to mitigate the problem of regular traffic — new SUVs and minivans — clogging up the classic cruisers to the detriment of their cars» radiators.

To truly enjoy these cars potential, you are most often «breaking the law» My son had a sport bike and it was very fast but boring and uncomfortable in traffic and actually quite dangerous because they are often not seen by other drivers.

Real cars = traffic, congestion, frustration, police, courts, fines (and if it all goes wrong doing 180mph on a B road you could kill some child on their push bike as they come out of a hidden side road).

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Audi has also equipped the new Q7 with its latest safety assistance systems, including rear cross traffic assist, traffic jam assist (the low - speed version of adaptive cruise control), turn assist (auto braking when turning into oncoming traffic), Audi pre-sense city (speed reduction and automatic braking), and vehicle exit assist (when opening the door into the path of a bike or car).

In high - traffic areas such as city sidewalks or bike trails (like the popular Washington and Old Dominion Trail here in Fairfax / Loudoun County), animals can bolt into oncoming car and bike traffic before owners have time to hit the leash's brake button or retract the cord.

There are no cars on Caye Caulker, only golf carts, bikes and foot traffic — which accounts for the «Go Slow» signs affixed to several of the Belize island's palm trees.

Three parking attendants help keep traffic flowing and a free bike valet makes it tempting to leave the car at home.

They even offer free bikes to hotel guests to use if they want to see St. Augustine without the hassle of parking a car and negotiating traffic.

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Pay close attention to this video - this mom is riding in a very low - density town with wide, lovely paths, extremely low car traffic, and on a beautiful sunny day - all of these things make it impossible to imagine any mishap in which mother and child get dumped off the bike stroller and onto the road.

Some Montreal merchants are up in arms about the loss of parking spaces Bixi stations represent - but if Denmark's experience is any indication, additional bike traffic tends to boost local merchants» sales more than the existing car parking.

If there is no bike lane then you are travelling with traffic and might have a bit of room to move; if there is a bike lane next to the parked cars you have nowhere to go.

New York would be the perfect bike town — if it weren't for car traffic.

With an infrastructure designed for bikes as well as cars, with appropriate traffic signals, cyclists are rarely gelatinous smears.

And here's a key point mentioned by the Cyclelicious blog: Those reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improvements to cyclist health far outweigh the risks from increased exposure to traffic and traffic's polluting byproducts.Researchers compared a car's occupants tootling around Barcelona's beautiful paseos with a cyclist traversing the bike lanes on the highly successful Bicing bike share.

Starting today, May 22 and going through June 5, Portland is creating pop - up bike and pedestrian lanes by taking over a 15 - foot, mile - long stretch of pavement normally reserved for northbound car and truck traffic.

He is faster through traffic on his bike than a police car.

Now, you can stand downtown at the corner of Hornby and Dunsmuir streets, in the heart of the city's financial district, and bike for miles in almost any direction, physically separated from car traffic.»

Because they use planters, curbs, parked cars or posts to separate bike and auto traffic on busy streets, protected lanes are essential to building a full network of bike - friendly routes.

Protestors are placing their bodies between bike paths and car traffic to make a point about transportation planning.

In 2009, Mayor Nutter — known derisively in some circles as «Mayor Bike Lane» — oversaw a road diet on Spruce and Pine streets that gave over a lane of car traffic to bike lanes.

It's specious at best to claim that EMTs who must constantly work around any number of obstacles, like automobile traffic, could be foiled by a bike rack — particularly since the bike - share station in question replaced car parking.

Since coming to work at the League in 2012 I had learned about Davis - the city with the highest rates of bike use in the United States; Davis - the city that began experimenting with protected bike lanes in the 1970s; Davis - the university that is closed to most car traffic; Davis - the community where a Bicycle Hall of Fame anchors a town square.

But for millions of others, the car is becoming an ever tempting option — despite the fact that traffic on the city's Second Ring Road is often slower than a bike.

All the major cycling - related arguments have been won: bike lanes are popular; they don't hurt local businesses; more biking doesn't lead to more accidents; bike lanes make pedestrians safer and don't impede the flow of car traffic.

I work my way north on Toronto's first Contra - flow bike lane (running against traffic on a one way street) and for the first time ever, find it clear of parked cars all the way.

It might not be a first, but you have to give this couple credit for marrying on a bike in a city where traffic is so heavy that even pedestrians beat cars.

Check out his wide - bike feasibility study on his research blog, in which he asks «how do cars react to a slow, heavy bike in traffic»?

Those of us who bike think cars should be happy to see us coming, since we cut overall carbon and pollution from getting into the air and make the streets less choked with automobile traffic.

If you stick to «bike lane» roads, there's a bit less concern about the same - way traffic, but watch for parked cars opening their doors.

Some examples of sticky streets, according to Toderian, are located in Vancouver, B.C. where enlightened traffic planners have learned to design not just for the things that can be counted - how many pedestrians, bicyclists, cars, what kind of flow rates - but also for the less countable stuff - cool shops, outdoor seating, bike corrals, ped walkways.

But almost all the car trips that cause rush hour traffic could be replaced by biking and transit, the greenest ways to commute.

Additionally, the design of the bike lanes included a dedicated left - turn lane at most intersections, allowing cars to wait to turn left without holding up traffic,» writes Vox.

In February and March, the City of Toronto and Toronto Police released two closely related sets of data: the first showed a 36 per cent increase in cyclist traffic on Bloor St following the installation of bike lanes last August; the second found that «dooring» incidents — when a driver opens their car door and strikes a cyclist — had increased 58 per cent from 2014 to 2016.

Protective gear, such as a bike helmet, offers little protection when the person is thrown into traffic after being hit by a car.

Generally, when a vehicle and a bicycle approach an uncontrolled intersection, or one without a stop sign or traffic signals, the «vehicle» (bike or car) who arrived first will have the right of way.

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That worked for them because they could pass but there was never space for cars to pass, as we are not as agile as bikes, to get in the space between traffic flow.

While many travelers don't drive while they are out of their home country, it is still important to watch for surrounding traffic as many car accidents include pedestrians, cyclists, and those riding other transportation like: buses or bike taxis.

Traffic violations and accidents in your car or bike can lead to increases in your motorcycle insurance premium.

Google also guides you on how to ride your bike or car when you are visiting a new city, along with the data of local traffic.