Sentences with phrase «bike lane network»

The result was the Plan de la Bicicleta de Sevilla, mapping the fully connected protected bike lane network that would make Sevilla's success possible.

Manuel Calvo had spent years in Sevilla bicycling activism and was working as a sustainability consultant when he landed the contract to plan a protected bike lane network for his city.

One prominent local journalist attacked the protected bike lane network as «useless,» saying that because so few Sevillanos biked at the time, Sevillanos never would.

Keeping trucks on redesigned, designated routes will improve street safety for local residents, while an expanded bike lane network would link residents to transit and local jobs.

Reynoso, who's been Chief of Staff to Councilmember Diana Reyna for the past four years, sees truck - route calming and enforcement as well as expanding the bike lane network for Bushwick and Ridgewood as huge opportunities to improve life in his district.

Caroline has directed campaigns that address all areas of bicycling, from developing new neighborhood bike lane networks, encouraging growth in the number of daily bike commuters, to leading national roundtables of experts on public bike share systems.

Not exact matches

Zove is committed to making Long Island's towns and villages safer for pedestrians and cyclists, including widening sidewalks, implementing more crosswalks and expanding the bike - lane network.

She has been generally supportive of initiatives like the expansion of the bike - lane network, pedestrian plazas, and neighborhood slow zones.

A new bicycle master plan recommends 300 miles of bike lanes throughout Buffalo — more than triple the amount that the city has now — to provide a safer, more connected network that encourages more bicycling.

He's a strong supporter of extending the bike - lane network, including dedicating a lane for cyclists on the Pulaski Bridge.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to add an extra 18 miles of protected bikes lanes by the end of this year, expanding the city's two - wheeled network up to 75 miles.

The Netherlands has everything a biker could dream of: a flat country, an extensive network of bike lanes (within and between cities) and car drivers that are careful with bikers.

If you'd rather bike somewhere a bit less crowded, California's capital city puts most other communities across the country to shame with 67.2 miles of bike paths and lanes for each 100,000 people, for a whopping 313 - mile biking network overall.

Developing countries should emulate New York City's development of an extensive network of bike lanes and bike paths, such as the Hudson River Greenway.

If those are the kind of wars that happen over bike lanes, I wonder what the fights will be like over elevated PRT networks.

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.

Funded in park by Clif Bar and People for Bikes, the experiment will include, in its last three days, an extension of the 15 - foot path for a few blocks further northward and creation of a bi-directional bike lane to test it as a possible fill - in to a noteworthy gap in Portland's bike network.

Together we inaugurated 6th Avenue's brand new protected bike lane, the latest addition to DOT's growing list of projects that improve and expand our City's bike network.

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.

In recent years, together with our Brooklyn counterparts, we secured the protected bike lane over the Pulaski and the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge bike lane, Phase One and Two of the Queens Boulevard Redesign, and the beginnings of a great bicycle network surrounding Astoria Park.

In 2014, the city council narrowly approved plans to create a 4 - mile network of protected bike lanes on four downtown streets all at once.

The most advanced Bicycle Friendly Communities and Bicycle Friendly Universities have a well - connected bicycling networks, consisting of quiet neighborhood streets, conventional and protected bike lanes, shared use trails, and policies to ensure connectivity and maintenance of these facilities.

In Seville, an 80 - mile network of protected bike lanes boosted biking from 0.6 percent to 7 percent of trips in six years.

«As we launch BIKETOWN, we do so knowing that we have built a strong foundation for a successful system: a large network of high - quality bike lanes,» said Leah Treat, Commissioner of the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

Until you've seen with your own eyes a full network of protected bike lanes, Green Lane Project Program Manager Zach Vanderkooy sometimes says, a city where bikes are the vehicle of choice for most short trips sounds like «something out of science fiction.»

In places like downtown and along busy streets, where Greenways and shared - use paths are not really possible, cycle tracks can be used to extend the «high - comfort» network, and allow people to reach their destinations without having to use less comfortable bike lanes adjacent to high - speed traffic.

This Minneapolis crew actually wants to use its pop - up protected bike lane to inspire a citywide network of permanent protected bike lanes — like what you see all over the Netherlands.

And mass transit is essential, as it compliments networks of bike lanes and paths, and provides transportation to those that can not afford or choose not to drive a car.

Those of us who try to ride bikes in the winter often wonder why cars get their own big right - of - way, transit riders get expensive underground subways, pedestrians get an elaborate network of underground walkways, and we, if lucky, get a white line on pavement marking a so - called bike lane filled with snow or cars.

The city counts 128 kilometres of bike lanes in its urban network.

In an act of public protest, cyclists took to the streets in Mexico to paint their own network of bike lanes outside the city's congress building.

As other world cities add lanes to their bike networks, our city is taking a step back in the movement toward public safety... Things need to change.

As Toronto strives to build a network of separated bike lanes throughout the city, some local business owners continue to raise objections.

Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel has a plan to expand Chicago's bicycle network that would reduce the number of Chicago bicycle accidents and give the city 100 miles of protected bike lanes by the end of his first term, the Sun - Times reported.