Sentences with phrase «bike infrastructure»

The bizarre mix of bike infrastructure designs resulting from years of planners trying to squeeze bikes into a car centric paradigm need to be made uniform.

For one, the process can identify areas of the city that really need better bike infrastructure.

What do you mean we need more bike infrastructure?

We do go on about the need for decent bike infrastructure, but there's not much point in building it if it is always full of cars and trucks and buses.

Cities aren't the only places where bike infrastructure matters.

Who would have thought that the push for separate bike infrastructure would come from the motorists, not the cyclists?

Only half of drivers are comfortable on roads without bike infrastructure.

So for the next few days, instead of looking at the usual bike infrastructure, I decided to look at how these European cities treat their pedestrians.

Wasn't bike infrastructure construction frozen for a lot of that time period due to the ridiculous bike injunction?

Seriously, anyone opposing bike infrastructure should never bring up costs.

One way is to add good bike infrastructure to neighborhoods without it.

Let's merge them and build some decent bike infrastructure.

Rozic is committed to extending and improving bike infrastructure in her district to make it easier for people to ride to nearby transit stations and to schools, advocating for real Bus Rapid Transit connecting Flushing and Jamaica, and ensuring that all police precincts in Queens are supplied with necessary enforcement equipment and trained in new traffic - safety laws.

As much as people wouldn't accept roadways designed like the one in the cartoon, bicyclists (and policymakers) really shouldn't be content with bike infrastructure designed in such a way.

Vancouver has been investing into bike infrastructure for a little while, and thanks to passionate activists both inside and outside local government, a lot of progress has been made.

5552 Estates Dr is somewhat bikeable, there is minimal bike infrastructure.

This could be a very effective way of choosing where to expand or improve bike infrastructure, especially if it is a crowdsourced project involving the creation of a bunch of bikeshed maps.

So while commuters pain and global traffic is definitely worth study, perhaps researchers should turn their focus to ways that promoting biking and building bike infrastructure compares before implementing other solutions - new roads, new lanes, or even a high tech congestion management system.

Those same politicians who would spend untold millions on highways and next to nothing on bike infrastructure should note yet another study out of Copenhagen which compares the costs and benefits of investing in bike vs car infrastructure.

Beck Taxis, of Toronto, is among the three operators to express bemusement as to why its drivers decided simultaneously to turn protected bike infrastructure into taxi ranks, and has promised to look into it.

Ontario has pledged $ 25 million dollars for bike infrastructure over the next 3 years.

This is why the work of people like Yvonne Bambrick and the Toronto Cyclists Union is so important; It looks like we have lost what the suburban politicians call the «war on the car» and that no matter who is elected, they are not going to spend 12 cents on paint for bike lanes and bike infrastructure improvements.

INWOOD, NY — The city Department of Transportation will not give in to pressure from elected officials to remove newly - implemented protected bike lanes on Dyckman Street, but will study alternative solutions to address local business» objections to the new biking infrastructure, department representatives said Tuesday night during a public hearing.

When it comes to commuting and two - wheeled urban transport, the Dutch know a thing or two about making city bikes (and about making good city bike infrastructure), and from Royal Dutch Gazelle, which has been making quality city bikes since 1892, comes a new e-bike entry in the daily rider category.

Combine that with the commitment of Mayor John Tory and the Toronto Transportation Department adding more safe and inviting bike infrastructure, and bike share, and biking is on the rise.

Streetfilms brings you these highlights of the Chicago stop on the tour, where representatives from the transportation departments of NYC, Portland and San Francisco shared lessons from developing bike infrastructure in their hometowns.

Like other cities, Philadelphia began thinking seriously about bike infrastructure just over the last decade.

My hope is that the introduction of a massive number of bikes and new cyclists to the city via bike share will make more people realize that safe, useable bike infrastructure is still severely lacking.

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I wasn't lost in the sense that a bicyclist can be lost in many American cities, where a trail or bike lane unceremoniously ends and it is not clear where to go to reconnect to a bike route, but lost because I had followed the nicest looking bike infrastructure and that happened to not be the City's signature loop.

Steps away from the Place des Arts and the Golden Square Mile, our headquarters takes advantage of Montreal's growing bike infrastructure and our facilities are even complemented with a staff bike room.

Ryan yesterday held a rolling press conference in Ireland's capital city in which he and other officials, like Boris Johnson, got on their own two - wheelers to point out for the press places where the Dublin bike infrastructure works, and lots of places where it doesn't.

(And no, please don \» t say \» the hills \» because a study cited on this site last year noted that even hillier cities in Italy and elsewhere still have much higher ridership than we do, because of their superior bike infrastructure.

It's a classic Catch - 22 - the more transport agencies are successful in encouraging drivers to bike, the less money from gas taxes there is in local coffers to build out the necessary bike infrastructure to make biking as efficient and universally popular as driving.

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

Vancouver has built an impressive bike infrastructure in addition to being named Canada's most walkable city.

Because e-bikes are lighter and cheaper than scooters, they can use bike infrastructure that scooters can't.

It's so true what she says about how you only really know an area if you've walked and biked around it, and how - if there's a good enough bike infrastructure - cycling can be the most convenient way to get around.

I live in a city with crappy bike infrastructure, almost no truly separated lanes, and the few bike lanes that we have have been co-opted by the delivery companies.

Now Vancouver has terrific bike infrastructure and an explosion of utility cycling, but all these silly rules are still embedded in what is called, of course, Motor Vehicle Act, notwithstanding that bikes are not motor vehicles.

It's remarkable to think that so much bike infrastructure actually exists and was buried, or just misplaced or misidentified.

Closing out with one more image, that bar on the far right of the following chart needs to grow 5 times over (or much more, to catch up with decades of negligence), and municipalities also need to start taking bike infrastructure more seriously.

Providing practical bike infrastructure, and a message and urban art, all at the same time.»

When I was in Copenhagen a few months ago what really struck me, besides the obviously exceptional bike infrastructure, was the fact that entire networks of streets had been pedestrianized creating de facto car free zones.

Horrible bike infrastructure is a bitter joke to bicyclists in a many a jurisdiction.

I love the idea of inter-city bike infrastructure being provided, the shading and protection from the solar canopy is a big help, and of course the bonus of the clean solar power.