Sentences with phrase «street with bike lanes»

In addition, a strong majority of pedestrians feel their experience walking on Bloor Street with bike lanes installed is about the same or better than it was previously.

Faced with losing out on compensation, many bicycle riders may choose to use nearby streets with bike lanes.

You can watch how unused they are by having a cup of coffee on a street with a bike lane and counting the very few cyclists compared to the many motorists — even in the middle of summer.

Not exact matches

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.

In her district, she supports the redesign of the Grand Concourse with protected bike lanes and other enhanced street designs that improve safety for all users.

«This ceaseless commitment will continue this year with a community - supported bus lane, pedestrian refuge islands and a protected bike path on First Avenue straight through East Harlem, and we will continue to push for speed cameras to make our streets and our schoolchildren even safer,» he said.

This sounds a lot like how I feel when I make the mistake of taking Broadway to get downtown, and for 5 blocks on either side of Times Square I inevitably find myself inundated with hoards of tourists walking in the bike lane and in the streets and crossing the street without looking — I practically bounce around off of them too.

The City of Sacramento is implementing a plan to reduce the number of one - way streets, and turn them into two - way streets with added bike lanes.

Thankfully Washington is a bike friendly street with lots of bike lane signage.

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

So this year, everyone who cares about active transportation, about cycling and walking, get out there and cycle and walk to your Main Street, preferably one with a bike lane, and show support for those businesses, (unless it is a Chiswick pet physiotherapist).

Elements such as protected bike lanes and off - street bike paths were associated with fewer collisions and falls.

High season for cycling is here, along with more riders on city streets than ever before, due to more bike lanes and an acceptance of bicycles as legitimate transportation.

DOT plans to add protected bike lanes on 26th Street and 29th Street in Manhattan, with other crosstown routes in the works for Midtown.

One of the most dramatic changes the Queens Activist Committee has wrought, seen by every person coming into Queens: a protected, safe approach to and from the Queensboro Bridge, with off - street, greenway - style bike lanes on Queens Plaza North and traffic calming at Columbus Triangle.

With the support of hundreds of Brooklynites, the Brooklyn Activist Committee members hosted a street rally and a family bike parade in support of the two - way protected bike lane on Prospect Park West, which they helped secure by being an active force in the local community.

The initiative also aims to grow ridership among women, whom studies have shown are more likely to ride in safer traffic environments with features like protected bike lanes and one - way streets.

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.

According to the DOT, streets with protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements lead to a 50 percent reduction in fatalities and injuries for all street users.

It only takes five minutes in the city of Copenhagen (especially when arriving by train) to wonder why all cities aren't developing in this same mold - plenty of open streets with wide pedestrian and bike lanes, bikes to easily

With the success of pilot projects such as the cycle tracks of Richmond & Adelaide, the contra - flow lane on Shaw Street, the Bloor Street bike lanes; the popular Bike Share program run by the City through the Toronto Parking Authority and with the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good haWith the success of pilot projects such as the cycle tracks of Richmond & Adelaide, the contra - flow lane on Shaw Street, the Bloor Street bike lanes; the popular Bike Share program run by the City through the Toronto Parking Authority and with the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good hawith the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good hands.

So, you've got two conflicting points here: one is that two - way bike lanes are correlated with stronger bicycling growth than any other type of protected bike lane in this NITC report (more research needs to be done to confirm causation, not simply correlation), and second is that on - street two - way bike lanes are considerably less safe than on - street one - way bike lanes according to numerous bicycle planning experts and authorities.

When I got onto another street without a bike lane I almost got clipped twice by speeding cars, and then got stopped by a motorcycle cop for starting just a bit too soon before a light turned green at an empty intersection, and threatened with three demerits and a $ 128 buck ticket (he let me go with a warning).

So they spent half a million on putting Jarvis Street back to the way it was (with it's dangerous bi-directional center lane) and another $ 2.5 million on these bike lanes, which are not on a major artery where cyclists really wanted to be.

(big PDF here on BlogTO) The results were impressive, with a 300 % increase in cyclists on the street after the painted bike lanes were replaced with separated lanes.

On a Bixi bike excursion to get some ice cream in Montreal, my wife and I stumbled upon the intersection of Fairmount Avenue and Rue Clark, recently upgraded with colorful new street furniture, traffic calming treatments, and a two - way protected bike lane.

I'm going to dig in a bit more on one point — the explosive growth in bicycling on streets with two - way protected bike lanes.

It's in advance of a vote on Tuesday about transforming Toronto's main drag, Yonge Street, from six lanes to four with improved sidewalks and bike lanes; as noted earlier on TreeHugger, this is something that the suburban car - loving Rob Ford constituency can not abide.

But the downside of bike lanes designed with the intention of giving cyclists their own space on the street to avoid collisions with motorists is that this may actually result in an increase in dooring accidents.

With the growth of bike lanes in downtown Vancouver personal injury lawyers representing injured pedestrians, cyclist and car accident claimants face new signage, lane design and street markings as excuses for potentially dangerous and deadly accidents.

Because bicycling is increasingly becoming a means of commuting for many workers and with the proliferation of bike lanes on city streets, motorists have to exercise more caution when driving and to expect as well as respect bicyclists on the roads.

A report published in 2013 by the Chicago Department of Transportation said the city now has 170 miles of on - street bike lanes and off - street bike paths and 13,000 bike racks, leading to a «bike renaissance» in the city with 150 percent more Chicagoans biking to work between 2000 and 2010.

The City of Sacramento is implementing a plan to reduce the number of one - way streets, and turn them into two - way streets with added bike lanes.