Sentences with phrase «bike lanes in»

And now many cities also have a lot of sports facilities — the bike lanes in Chicago, for example.

Austin, Texas will soon begin operating 12 bicycle - specific traffic lights in the downtown area on one of the most popular separated bike lanes in the city.

Being aware of bike lanes in your city is also very helpful, since drivers will definitely know to expect cyclists on the road in those areas.

In an internationally peer - reviewed study, Risk of injury for bicycling on cycle tracks versus in the street, published in Injury Prevention, it was found that use of bike lanes in Montreal resulted in a 28 % lower injury rate.

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.

The study, by Portland University for the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, looked at five bike lanes in Portland, San Francisco, Austin, Chicago and Washington, and found that within a year of installation, ridership increased between +21 % to +171 %.

It has long been clear that we need protected bike lanes in order to encourage mass bicycling.

The folks at StreetFilms have already covered the free bikes at Governors Island, new physically separated bike lanes in the Big Apple, and they've paid tribute to one of the city's cycling heroes.

A group of Darlington girls in the United Kingdom are set on making cycling stylish and are doing so through a documentary film, a book, a cycling club, and a campaign for bike lanes in their hometown.

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

NACTO's research also highlights the importance of protected bike lanes in making bike share a real option for people of all cycling abilities.

The city already has 80 kilometers of bike lanes in the streets and 50 kilometers of lanes on sidewalks.

I gave a good accounting of ideas I thought were important but realize there are a lot of Streetfilms resources for anyone who wants to get better bike lanes in their city that I could pen.

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

For more on protected bike lanes, aside from the studies referenced and linked above, be sure to check out Mike's great piece from last month: The rise of curbs: Protected bike lanes in the U.S. are growing up!

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.»

MN: The City Council has the intention to build more bike lanes in the coming years.

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.

More on bike lanes in Toronto: Watching The Dismantling Of Everything Green In Toronto The War on The Bike and the Bus In Toronto: Activists Regroup, Respond

The bike lanes in this town are little more than short term parking spots.

Since coming to work at the League in 2012 I had learned about Davis - the city with the highest rates of bike use in the United States; Davis - the city that began experimenting with protected bike lanes in the 1970s; Davis - the university that is closed to most car traffic; Davis - the community where a Bicycle Hall of Fame anchors a town square.

Pick a climate solution that interests you such as rebates for solar panels, a new farmer's market, bike lanes in your town, or municipal composting.

That's why part of our program involves taking delegates from U.S. cities on curated tours of places like Rotterdam and Copenhagen, to see protected bike lanes in action and talk to the ordinary people who use them.

We've implemented a large number of bike lanes in Boston, now we're working to make them better.

The new bike lanes in Sacramento's midtown area are nearly complete.

So, while New York has built more than 70 miles of protected bike lanes in the last decade, here it can require years of consensus building to win Council approval for a single, one - mile stretch.

Pro-cycling councillors have bike lanes in their wards.

But they don't do bike lanes in Toronto anymore.

While I'd love to see a pedestrian way or bike lanes in those specific spots, that's not likely to happen for a while.

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.»

Studying bike lanes in 90 or the 100 largest American cities, Pucher and collaborater Ralph Buehl used Pearson's correlation, bivariate quartile analysis, and two different types of regressions to measure the relationship between more and longer bike lanes and quantity of cyclists.

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.

All developing Asian Cities today are struggling to maintain their bike lanes in the face of an onslaught from gasoline two wheelers, not to mention cars.

Philadelphia has a very narrow street grid which - unfortunately - doesn't allow for ample room to paint bike lanes in many neighborhoods, but it does have the effect of producing streets where cars and bikes are sharing the road at a reasonable speed.

With great new bike lanes in the city and gorgeous open spaces for road and mountain biking, Kristin is happy to call San Francisco home.

The park's 8 - mile road with bike lanes in both directions leads to views of the Barnegat Lighthouse, on the tip of Long Beach Island.

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.

Intro 412, which passed unanimously, would require that the city Department of Transportation provide community boards with at least 90 days notification of any planned bike lanes in their area, allowing the board to hold hearings.

For instance, in 2011, they fought against the creation of bike lanes in South Williamsburg, successfully forcing the Bloomberg - era Department of Transportation to re-route bike lanes that went through predominantly Jewish areas there.

«We've installed 250 miles of on - street bike lanes in the last three years,» Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan said.

He's committed to filling the gaps in the Second Avenue protected bike lane, and to adding additional crosstown bike lanes in his district.

Personally, I would avoid the rush hour and find routes with bike lanes in busy areas.

As Stringer addressed reporters on the corner of Eighth Street and Second Avenue in the East Village, one rogue cyclist whizzed down the avenue's bike lane in the wrong direction.

In a recent battle over a bike lane in Toronto, a company that sells pianos said it would kill his business!

Montreal got its first separated bike lane in the 80s and has been treating bikes as a separate mode of transportation ever since.

The project proposes two 11 - foot travel lanes, sidewalk, and a 5 - foot minimum one - way separated bike lane in each direction.

Casey Neistat was ticketed for not riding in the bike lane in New York City and had to pay a $ 50 fine.

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.

On Streetsblog, Angie Schmitt describes research by Raymond Ziemba at Toronto's Ryerson University, studying the impact of installing a separated bike lane, in this case the Sherbourne Street bike lane in Toronto.

In a recent discussions about a bike lane in Toronto where some parking spaces were going to be removed, there was suddenly great concern for seniors who might not be able to park right in front of the piano store.