Sentences with phrase «bike lanes because»

Turns out, many drivers preferred bike lanes because it kept the cyclists separate.

Cutting funding for bike lanes because there isn't enough demand is like cutting literacy funding because not enough people are reading.

Not exact matches

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

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).

But it doesn't seem to be because the infrastructure is better; in fact, while things have been improving, the number of well protected bike lanes is relatively low and while they now have a bike share, that's a new thing that didn't make a difference in the 2012 census.

It's the European standard, used because they can play nicely in bike lanes with regular bikes.

They painted bike lanes in both directions and moved the center line to fit between the two lanes, filling the lanes with teal paint, because «that was Jenna's favourite colour.»

It also makes life much better in the bike lanes, where cyclists are often sucking diesel fumes and car exhaust, because as one study noted, «Cyclists, she said, «tend to have higher breathing rates than other pedestrians, so whatever they're inhaling is going deeper into their lungs.»

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.

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.

The truth about how many people cycle to their jobs matters because Mayor Bloomberg and DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan are using a supposed increase to justify their crazed campaign to install new bike lanes all over town — at drivers» and pedestrians» expense.

And it's not because of protected bike lanes...

Because they shorten crossing distances, control turning conflicts and reduce traffic weaving, New York City's protected bike lanes reduced injury rates for people walking on their streets by 12 to 52 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.

He said at some T intersections in the city, bicyclists can ride safely through red lights because there is no cross traffic and a bike lane keeps them well away from vehicles.

There were so many trails, signalized bicycle crossings, bike lanes, bollard - protected intersections and lanes that it was sometimes difficult to know where the community was channeling me to go - because it wasn't channeling me, it was allowing me to bike wherever I wanted.

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.

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).

Not because there is no more room for bike lanes in London, which isn't true, but because these kinds of bike lanes serve a totally different purpose.

She makes the argument that this is because the European cities have better bike lanes and safer conditions.

During the debate about removing two suburban bike lanes, Councillor Michelle Berardinetti said «bike lanes are not a good fit for suburbs because we are forced to use our cars here» and «I never want to see bike lanes in Scarborough ever again.»

It was not put here because studies said it was a good place for it, or that it was needed; this is a political expediency, a sop to cyclists after former Mayor Rob Ford and henchman Denzil Minnan - Wong tore out brand new bike lanes on Jarvis Street, a 5 lane urban highway one block west, because it was slowing down drivers wanting to get home for dinner by oh, three minutes.

Did you know there are bike lanes in Tel Aviv but hardly anyone sees them because there are no signs?

Some of the increase in ridership at each facility likely came from new riders (i.e. riders who, absent the protected bike lane, would have travelled via a different mode or would not have taken the trip) and some from riders diverted from other nearby streets (i.e. riders who were attracted to the route because of the facility, but would have chosen to ride a bicycle for that trip regardless).

A recent redesign for the street where this happened proposed reducing the road from six lanes to four and putting in bike lanes but the Mayor of the City is against it because taking out the lanes might slow down traffic.

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.

The cyclists must hate the bike lanes too because I never see any cyclists riding in them.