Sentences with phrase «bike lanes just»

This is part of the culture issue where even the local government is putting in bike lanes just so that they have another revenue stream from the tickets.

Not exact matches

There is that Trials - like element to it, but there's also just getting used to the lane switching, the way that the bike's handle as they turn, and slight quirks with the controls that Tate are still refining.

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.

and they just ignore the cars and trucks that not only fill the bike lane but straddle it and push cyclists out into the road.

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.

US Census - NYC and DC, protected lane pioneers, just doubled biking rates in 4 years

Safely marked bike lanes, sprawling green paths, moderate weather, are all musts, but it takes more than just a trendy bikeshare program to make us get on two wheels.

The attitude about cycling here is just one of many things to cheer: a planned light - rail bridge that will also bring $ 40 million in new buffered bike lanes and paths; a proposed apartment project with 1,200 parking spaces for bikes; and a university that supports urban cycling research, Portland State, which last year released a scientific study proving that, yes, bike commuters really do arrive happier.

Lloyd wrote up a great article yesterday summarizing the epic bike protected bike lane study that just came out from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities.

It isn't as funny as Jaymi's post Cyclist Argues Against Bike - Lane Police Fine In Hilarous Video; it just shows lots of people following most of the rules, being polite, yielding to cars turning right, and not even swearing at the truck blocking the bike lane, just riding around it.

The popular Broadway Boulevard project, which turned a lane of traffic on the landmark street into a plaza and protected bike lane, is just the start; over the last two years, 52 acres of roadbed have been similarly transformed.

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.

Beam notes that there are two kinds of cycling advocates: «Vehicularists» who say that bikes should act like cars, go where cars go and follow the rules for cars, and «facilitators» who demand an infrastructure of bike lanes, paths and separate bike - friendly rules.However Beam says that building bike lanes is just giving in to cars, giving up cyclist rights.

Manhole covers, sewer grates, even this stretch of bike lane, all the usual obstructions that I go around, I just rode right over.

As John Doyle points out in the Globe and Mail, The War on the Car that Rob Ford just won, where he plans to cancel light rail projects and bike lanes across town, is not a war on elites and artsy people; it is a war on «lunch - pail, blue - collar people,» the students, the elderly, the poor working people who overwhelmingly take transit.

They're just not expressly marked as bike lanes and have faded into usage as roadside pathways or parking, or have been grassed over.

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.

And so it has come to this: Bike lanes, not so long ago a symbol of a boldly progressive New York City, have sparked a bitter row on the hushed and leafy streets of brownstone Brooklyn — just one part of a biking backlash rippling across the five boroughs.

If you give people just a small taste of how nice it is to bike (and even simply live) in a city with protected bike lanes, I think they will demand them.

The sad thing is that many policymakers in cities and counties around the country think it's completely acceptable to have a few bike lanes here and there and just let them get cut off, forcing bikers into automobile traffic (often rather suddenly).

The Street Trust just announced that their shuttle diplomacy between the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Portland Bureau of Transportation has yielded a compromise that will allow a striped space for biking (not a bike lane, technically) to remain.

Then Lord Foster joined the party, and has just released updated renderings of the scheme to place bike lanes on top of rail corridors.

Vision Zero is not just about bike lanes - it is about safety for everyone.

It's not even much of a bike lane, it's narrow and beside four lanes of traffic that goes very fast, just a strip of paint on the road.

Is this really a bike lane or just a solar power scheme?

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.

And while these findings are based on just one city block and a short period of time, the other 101 miles of bus lanes and 435 miles of bike lanes throughout the city suffer from the same issues.