Sentences with phrase «bike lanes where»

These exceptions are the same for both the requirement that cyclists drive on the right side of the road and the requirement they use marked bike lanes where possible.

That's why the grownups should be insisting on bike lanes where they can ride safely.

Protected Bike Lanes — The number of bike lanes where riders are physically separated from motor vehicles has skyrocketed in the US since 2009.

Not exact matches

From bike lanes to bike shares, hotel bike rentals, and online bike sales, it's getting easier and easier to purchase and / or ride a bike — no matter where you live or travel.

The trail will cross through the Syracuse area along existing bike lanes and pedestrian trails, and new trails will be built where there are gaps.

The bottom line: While leading an active life is possible no matter where you live, it certainly doesn't hurt to have protected bike lanes and lots of green space for outdoor rec.

Barely wider than a single lane for much of its length and replete with mountain bikes, panniered adventure touring motorcycles and half of Germany's population of wildly understeering, aging Golf Cabrios, the road reinforced the fact that you quickly appreciate exactly where the corners of this (let's face it w - i - d - e) four - door start and finish.

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.

City Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker lives in the outer reaches of the city but bicycles 42 km (26 miles) each way to work at Toronto City Hall, all year round, from a part of town where there are no bike lanes.

NYC has close to 8.5 million inhabitants, who directly experience their neighborhoods and sometimes know better than planners where bike lanes or other improvements are needed and can come up with ideas that designers may not have.

Where I live, they can barely scratch up the money and political will to paint in a bike lane; every one is a battle with storekeepers over parking, with suburbanites calling it a «war on the car».

As you can see from the signage, this is both a bike lane and a snow route; these are designated streets where if the Mayor announces a snow emergency, all the cars have to move or be towed so that the loaders and dump trucks can take away the snow.

How about putting black box recorders in taxis, decent north / south bike lanes, one way streets where they are not wide enough to accommodate such traffic, and building a bike - friendly city.

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.»

Heavy traffic, aggressive drivers, few bike lanes, and fear of theft made the Czech capital a place where cycling was «only for the brave,» as an article for Radio Prague put

It's where bus riders board and disembark, for instance, or where protected bike lanes typically make the most sense.

These local areas are where decisions like including bike lanes or funding public transport, or supporting tax incentives solar and other forms of renewable energy, are made, and why we need people engaged in our community.

Numerous studies document that protected bike lanes increase the rate of bicycling by an average of 75 percent, reduce bicycle and pedestrian injuries, relieve stress on the streets for drivers and spur economic growth in the neighborhoods where they are constructed.

The Citi Bike App has route finding covered too, offering up sensible point - to - point directions that take bike lanes, greenways and other infrastructure into account so you can find the smartest way to where you're going.

Where protected lanes were installed in New York and Washington D.C., the number of bikes on sidewalks immediately fell by an average of 56 percent.

It happens on Bloor St. everyday now, where the bike lane pilot (which is not really a pilot) is underway.

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.»

I remember reading somewhere that on 9th Avenue where the new separated bike lane was installed, bicycle use has doubled, pedestrian injuries have been halved, vehicle crashes are down, and cyclist compliance with traffic laws is higher, all without creating more traffic congestion.

We proudly fought for protected bike lanes on Northern Boulevard, where Transportation Alternatives member Michael Schenkman was killed cycling to the Joe Michael's Mile Greenway.

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.

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.

While bicycling increased quite a lot on all streets studied where protected bike lanes were added, but it really exploded on two of the streets where two - way bike lanes were added.

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.

They went to the intersection where Jenna was crushed and recycled twigs, cups and the general detritus one finds at the side of the road in an industrial part of town, and built their own bike lane.

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.

There is a war on the car right now you know, where those cyclists are taking over the roads, where driving lanes and parking spaces are being lost to bike lanes which is killing businesses everywhere, and where cyclists are getting killed by crashing into buses without wearing helmets and have nobody to blame but themselves.

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 is a street not unlike others in Toronto, where cars and delivery vehicles commonly use the bike lane as their ATM drive - through, it is almost always blocked at Spadina Avenue like this.

Portland, Oregon — America's quintessential bike town, where bikes are given out to low - income residents, bike lanes are ubiquitous, and certain traffic lights are engineered to give priority to cyclists — first got into the sharing game with a «yellow bike» program that started in 1994.

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.

So they spent half a million on putting Jarvis Street back to the way it was (with it's dangerous bi-directional center lane) and another $ 2.5 million on these bike lanes, which are not on a major artery where cyclists really wanted to be.

It can be quickly and cheaply built in places where a city is considering a permanent colored bike lane, in order to test out the concept and get an idea of the results.

No point in asking these guys whey they don't enforce the parking in the bike lane; that's where they drink their double doubles.

If women do most of the errands, then they want bike paths and lanes that take them where they need to go.

Many American communities lack sidewalks and bike lanes, making it difficult for pedestrians and cyclists to get around safely, particularly where streets are heavily traveled.

Where I live in Toronto, every bike lane is another battle in the War On The Car.

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.

Others complain that cyclists shouldn't be talking on the phone or listening to music while they ride, but this is hands - free and the speakers are not in - ear where they would block noise, and I don't see why cyclists should be held to a different standard where they are not allowed to listen to music as they cruise the bike lanes.

Taking the proper safety precautions — like using signals and lights, riding in bike lanes, and following the traffic laws — lets drivers know where you are and what you're doing, and that makes them able to give you the space you need to ride safely.

It's very clever, in that the curved shape gets you up to speed by the time you merge into the moving traffic, a problem I had in Copenhagen recently where there were so many people in the bike lane than I had trouble getting in.

The Dutch are well known for their ubiquitous bike lanes, to the point where Amsterdam is neck and neck with Copenhagen for the title of most bike - loving capital in Europe.

This is a wonderful idea that I would love to see where I live in Toronto, where they are measuring all the traffic in the bike lanes with such rigor right now.

Coming as I do from a city where the bike lanes are narrow, full of holes and added at a glacial pace to to endless politics, being back in New York with my bike is a revelation, this city changes so quickly.

But where we don't get our bike lanes ploughed first (that would be