Sentences with phrase «bike lane when»

Bicyclists may also leave the bike lane when they are making a left turn, passing another bicyclist, avoiding a pedestrian or car in the bike lane and approaching a location where a right turn is allowed.

Ever been walking on a sidewalk or riding a bike in the bike lane when suddenly a car door swings open in front of you?

As it turns out, bicyclists must use dedicated bike lanes when they are available.

Not exact matches

Brian Howald took to Twitter to report that he was riding along Third Avenue in Bay Ridge when State Sen. Marty Golden's SUV traveled into the bike lane to avoid traffic.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880)-- When the Department of Transportation installed a bike lane on Columbus Avenue in November, it changed the whole street design and took away parking spaces.

Focus On (StreetsPAC article): «Pedestrian plazas, bike lanes and loading zones all remove parking supply and encourage people to use transit or drive when there is less demand for limited parking spaces.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — When other elected officials around the city were giving their state of the district speeches back in the summer, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez decided to postpone his — citing a flurry of staff changes, zoning battles over the controversial Sherman Plaza project and plans to increase bike lanes in the area.

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.

On April 27, a Google Lexus was stopped at a red light, in the right lane, when a 2000 Toyota Camry tried to pass it in the bike lane on its right and «brushed» one of the Lexus AV's sensors on the passenger side.

Its usefulness blossomed when spring filled our many local bike lanes.

I'll say this about riding this bike around in congested cities: I've never been a believer in «Loud Pipes Save Lives,» but when you're fighting for your lane with a guy driving a Lincoln Navigator with Pitbull blaring from the sound system, it's disconcerting to not have some kind of sound letting them know you're there.

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).

When it comes to bike lanes, there's a lot to be desired.

The words escape me — when I saw it, I couldn't believe it,» Hubbard said of viewing the photos on Twitter on Saturday morning, adding she values bike lanes.

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.

The city still has a bit of an anarchist tendency, but at least it faces the reality of situations; years ago, when researching an article on bike lanes in Montreal, I asked a planner about their use of contra - flow lanes on one - way streets.

Regardless, the increase in riders points to the fact that when a city improves awareness of and infrastructure for cycling — New York has added 140 miles of bike lanes since 2007 — more people will get on their bikes.

For years the numbers around biking have shown that men predominate in the bike lanes, and most especially, when the numbers used come from the U.S. census and specifically count bike commuters.

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.

When traffic conditions — or the complacency of riding in a bike lane — leave a rider vulnerable to the «door zone,» there is only so much responsibility the rider can take to avoid these encounters.

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.

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

In fact, I recall one point at which other interests in City government freaked out when one streetcar preliminary drawing showed a bike lane on one stretch of MLK.

These trails play an important role for transportation, too, especially when they are well - linked to protected bike lanes and neighborhood greenways.

Even when you are biking in a nice, wide, partly protected bike lane you are breathing in the exhaust from all those cars while you pedal — and it doesn't smell like roses.

When one of the protected bike lanes crossed one of these streets, there were sharrows and a bike signal, but the vast expanse of the intersection would not be inviting for new cyclists.

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.

Only three percent of cyclists didn't use the protected lane, compared to before it was installed, when 12 percent of riders rode in the street instead of in the bike lane.

When Chicago added a protected lane and bike - specific traffic signals to Dearborn Street, stoplight compliance on bicycles immediately rose from 31 percent to 81 percent.

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.

People in most countries of the world are in the habit of looking for oncoming traffic on their left when they are turning left, but two - way bike lanes result in bicyclists coming up from the far left on the back side.

It would be the perfect thing for our teeth - rattling trenched and patched bike lanes, or for when an idiot opens a car door in front of you; just plough right through it.

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

Mayor Rob Ford can complain about bike lanes all he wants but the fact is, when you start hitting numbers like 45 % everyone has to pay attention, these are serious numbers.

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).

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

It is particularly impressive when you look at the history of this particular bike lane, and the events that preceded it (like the protest ride above).

When Judah Schiller heard that the bike lane on the Bay bridge (connecting San Francisco and Oakland) was going to...

Graduate student Ciaran Meyers attached a special camera to his bike and found that motorists gave him an extra 18.1 cm (7.12 inches) when there was no marked cycle lane than they did when there was a lane.

When I look at this morning's map I see all of 6 enforcement actions in all of Manhattan, even though the First Avenue bike lane looks like a parking lot.

Last July 13, when Mayor Rob Ford still had people listening to him on council, they voted to paint out the bike lanes and put the reversible lane back.

We had to ride south on Avenue Road, keeping as close to the curb as possible on one of the busiest streets in town in the middle of rush hour, wondering what kind of governments hypocritically promote cycling and then neglect to provide any decent routes; that refuse to demand sideguards on trucks like they do in the UK; that refuse to enforce the few rules about parking or driving in bike lanes; and that refuse to ban cell phone use while driving when 80 % of accidents are caused by inattention of drivers.

When we covered the solar bike lane in the Netherlands, a lot of commenters suggested that putting the solar panels on top of the bike lane like this made a lot more sense than burying it under.

This was a huge issue in Toronto when Rob Ford tore out the Jarvis Street bike lanes to supposedly get people home to dinner two minutes faster.

And when someone calls me, i touch one button on the ear buds and start talking... again over 90 % of my bike commute is on non-car bike lanes.

When they put in bike lanes, they do it

However I think he is going crazy fast for winter when the snow - filled bike lane is six inches wide.

A recent study in the UK, reported in the Guardian, showed that drivers give less room to cyclists when there is a bike lane than when there isn't.

I was in Berlin last year and found that public transportation could take you anywhere, and that when you were on a bike you were treated with care and respect by the drivers, even when there were no bike lanes.

This is after a winter when the bike lanes were completely buried in snow, cars pushed into the bike lanes by snow, or as Toronto writer Shawn Micallef calls them, «gutter glaciers» that are just finally melting now.