Sentences with phrase «road bike lane»

Bike riders and cyclists should watch out as Vaughan does not have a very comprehensive on road bike lane system.

Cycling to and from lunch yesterday on Toronto's Davenport Road bike lane, I counted sixteen cars and delivery trucks blocking the lane both ways.

The multi-use trail and associated in - road bike lanes travel along the plateau above Crissy Field, passing by some of the Presidio's most historic areas: Letterman Hospital (now the Thoreau Center for Sustainability), the Main Post, National Cemetery, Cavalry Stables, and Battery East.

Not exact matches

Uber's autonomous technology had a similar problem navigating around bike lanes during its short time on the road in San Francisco.

(California has a newly paved road, plus a new bike lane for easy travel.)

One route would combine stretches of a bike path along the creek bank with a bicycle lane on Villa Avenue north of the Prairie Path, then hug the west bank of the creek south to Butterfield Road.

Separately, construction also will soon begin along Roosevelt Road, between State Street and Columbus Drive, to widen sidewalks and create a buffer of trees between bike and car lanes, integrating the nearby CTA station with Grant Park, Soldier Field, Northerly Island and the Museum Campus.

The greenway also will link to an anticipated bike lane for Arthur Kill Road, and provide a link between the North and South shores of the borough for pedestrians, runners and bicyclists, Parks said.

Six years later with the growing number of bikes on our roads, more and more cycle lanes being introduced and the introduction of excellent schemes which I take advantage of such as the cycle hire scheme in London.

Investment in road building far exceeds that for active travel - public transport, footpaths and bike lanes - which Read more about Stop prioritising cars over kids» health, experts plead - Scimex

The park's 8 - mile road with bike lanes in both directions leads to views of the Barnegat Lighthouse, on the tip of Long Beach Island.

It is honestly the best way to explore the city because they have designated bike lanes everywhere, they literally rule the road.

In addition to the road improvements, the Project also includes: two tolled direct connect flyovers that will link eastbound SH 71 to northbound US 183 and southbound US 183 to westbound SH 71; a new 5 - foot bike lane on each side of the project, a 10 - foot shared use path, and a 6 - foot to 10 - foot sidewalk.

«We have gotten incredible support,» says Deborah Schutt, executive director of the Action Association, whose Complete Streets plan gets underway this September with bike lanes up and down Woodward Avenue between 6 Mile Road in Detroit and I - 696, at 10 Mile Road, in the bedroom community of Pleasant Ridge.

Now I have that plus the collision warning, the blind spot camera (great around here because there are tons of bikers on the road and I always worry about not seeing one when I cross the bike lane to make a right hand turn).

Barely wider than a single lane for much of its length and replete with mountain bikes, panniered adventure touring motorcycles and half of Germany's population of wildly understeering, aging Golf Cabrios, the road reinforced the fact that you quickly appreciate exactly where the corners of this (let's face it w - i - d - e) four - door start and finish.

It's an easy 10 - minute walk or bike ride along the main road before you turn left down a small lane and come upon Maison Dalabua's low - key entrance, open - air lobby et voila!

With great new bike lanes in the city and gorgeous open spaces for road and mountain biking, Kristin is happy to call San Francisco home.

In the beginning it felt like they were out to kill us in one foul swoop... cars, dogs, scooters, chickens, trucks, buses and bikes all sharing the one lane road coming at us in every direction.

Most major roads have bike lanes, and wide bike lanes were recently installed on Beach Street, near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

You may blast off a ramp with bounce and boost, sending your bike pirouetting wildly, pulling tricks all the while, then land on your back wheel to keep the combo, bounce over a road block and then deftly switch lane at a junction to avoid an upcoming obstacle.

Most of the roads that do have bike lanes are in disrepair, and given the traffic and bad drivers who also use these roads, riding a bike can seem like a death wish.

My commute was only four miles each way, but half of the route was on a rural road with a 45mph speed limit and a narrow, bumpy bike lane with a steep ditch to one side.

Philadelphia has a very narrow street grid which - unfortunately - doesn't allow for ample room to paint bike lanes in many neighborhoods, but it does have the effect of producing streets where cars and bikes are sharing the road at a reasonable speed.

It has been pretty much been proven true everywhere: when you separate bikes from cars everybody wins, not just in the road, the bike lane and the sidewalk, but also in the businesses around them.

Cycling can be a risky proposition on busy urban streets or rural roads that aren't equipped with a bike lane.

and they just ignore the cars and trucks that not only fill the bike lane but straddle it and push cyclists out into the road.

The start was not promising; as you can see they have ploughed the road nicely, dumping all of the snow into the bike lane.

I saw my own reservations about commuting by bike in Portland: I wish there were more compassionate drivers, I wish the bike lanes felt safer, I wish I knew the rules of the road as it relates to biking.

Such strategies include cycling networks (segregated or non-segregated bike lanes; bike paths), and other means to permit safe access for all road users, including vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians.

She suggests that you avoid them when possible, which is hard when you are sharing the road with cars, or when the City and homeowners decide that the bike lane is a great place to store them.

So find roads with slower traffic or with bike lanes, preferably fully separated ones.

It's why we need infrastructure, bike lanes, lower speed limits, safer roads, and more cyclists on the road for safety in numbers, instead of scaring cyclists off the roads by making them afraid to go out unless they are suited up in neon.

For instance, you could build a model of the street you live on, add a protected bike lane, a bike rack, or see how a road diet might affect things.

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.

Update: A street in Oakland recently underwent a road diet: two of five lanes were converted into protected bike lanes.

The project will construct a contraflow separated bike lane on the east side of Glenbrook Road from Bradley Blvd. to Fairfax Dr. Traffic calming islands are also included in the design as a means of reducing speeds.

When protected bike lanes are installed in New York City, injury crashes for all road users (drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) typically drop by 40 percent and by more than 50 percent in some locations.

When riding my bike for transportation (and not for leisure), I seek out bike lanes and routes frequently used by cyclists because drivers who regularly use those routes are accustomed to sharing the road with cyclists.

This looks like a pretty lame report... there is nothing about bike lane statistics... how many of these deaths occurred in locations with separated bike lanes, sharrows, 1 lane roads, 2 lane roads, highways?

One Reason It Makes The Cut A resurgent grassroots bike advocacy effort overcame fervent opposition and helped win approval of a road diet (replacing car lanes with bike lanes) on South Willamette Street, making a direct cycling route to downtown safer.

However, it took me months to realize that it was such a huge number, because there were only ever a few cars driving along the road; the road was a very narrow, two - lane road; and the only sounds that really stood out to me were the clicks of old bikes with warped fenders and the dings from the bike bells of «faster» bicyclists passing slower ones (of course, none of the Dutch bicyclists race down the road, but some casually bike a little faster than others).

Here is a truck turning before the bike lane was installed; note that the painted bikes are pretty meaningless in their supposed message of sharing the road.

They went to the intersection where Jenna was crushed and recycled twigs, cups and the general detritus one finds at the side of the road in an industrial part of town, and built their own bike lane.

There is a war on the car right now you know, where those cyclists are taking over the roads, where driving lanes and parking spaces are being lost to bike lanes which is killing businesses everywhere, and where cyclists are getting killed by crashing into buses without wearing helmets and have nobody to blame but themselves.

It's time for some outrage and time for proper bike infrastructure and separated bike lanes, particularly on arterial roads.

The most deaths happen on urban arterial roads, those multi-lane higher speed roads that probably have lots of room for bike lanes.

Now it is true that some drivers don't like having to share the road with the thousands of cyclists now commuting every day in those bike lanes which serve a lot more than delivery people and casual riders.

Another said «more roads make cars go faster» which is just what cyclists need on Jarvis when there are no bike lanes.

They were also controversial; According to Reid in Bike Boom, cyclists fought against separated bike lanes, believing them to be a motorist plot to ban them from the roads.