Sentences with phrase «bike on city streets»

You will also want to make sure to purchase safety equipment regardless if you are riding your bike on city streets, back dirt roads, or on trails.

Today, families, friends, residents and bicycle advocates participated in the 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk for New Yorkers who have been killed by cars while walking or biking on city streets.

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Oh and if you're feeling up to braving the streets of Paris on a bicycle, try out the «Vélib», the public bike - rental system with stations all over the city.

New York Daily News article on the NYPD cracking down on a growing trend of illegal ATVs and dirt bikes in city streets, quoting BP Adams.

He also hopes to solve the police - parking and bike - lane - blocking problem on Schermerhorn Street, and will continue his efforts to achieve equity in the handling of the city's waste and reform of the carting industry.

He has also been a leader on issues of livable streets and transit, helping to advance pedestrian safety and bike infrastructure in his district and around the city.

StreetsPAC's Endorsement Announcement: Councilmember Rosie Mendez has been a steady voice for livable streets in the City Council, voting for congestion pricing, backing the implementation of Select Bus Service on 1st and 2nd avenues, and supporting bike share across her district.

In exchange for the new bikes, Motivate is asking the city for several concessions, including an extension of the agreement that allows only Motivate to run a bike share on the streets.

Swarms of aggressive riders on all - terrain vehicles, nonregistered motorized bikes and scooters should move their act from New York City streets to Long Island or risk having their rides seized and destroyed, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

Council Member Rosie Mendez has been a steady voice for livable streets in the City Council, voting for congestion pricing, backing the implementation of Select Bus Service on 1st and 2nd avenues, and supporting bike share across her district.

In her 12 years in the City Council, Gale Brewer has consistently championed livable streets with characteristic patience, most notably by forging a consensus on the Upper West Side to eliminate cars in Central Park and to install and extend pedestrian - safety improvements and protected bike paths on Columbus Avenue.

In her 12 years in the City Council, Gale Brewer has consistently championed livable streets with characteristic patience, most notably by forging a consensus on the Upper West Side to eliminate cars in Central Park and to install and extend pedestrian safety improvements and protected bike paths on Columbus Avenue.

StreetsPAC's Endorsement Announcement: In her 12 years in the City Council, Gale Brewer has consistently championed livable streets with characteristic patience, most notably by forging a consensus on the Upper West Side to eliminate cars in Central Park and to install and extend pedestrian - safety improvements and protected bike paths on Columbus Avenue.

Swarms of aggressive riders on all - terrain vehicles, nonregistered motorized bikes and scooters should move their act from New York City streets to Long Island or risk having their rides seized and destroyed, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said Monday.

The NYPD announced a new hands - on approach to reduce the impact of illegal dirt bike and ATV riders that terrorize city streets — by crushing their seized rides and broadcasting...

He pointed to Ford Go Bikes, its urban bike - sharing program, and plans to field fully autonomous ride - hail cars on city streets by 2021 as examples of how the company is moving past its traditional role as an automaker.

Hire a bike and cycle the city's 18 - mile long Lakefront Trail, a paved route that runs along the shoreline of Lake Michigan: from Ardmore Street on the North Side to 71st Street on the South Side.

Palisades Park lies between Ocean Avenue and the beach, serving as one of the city's most popular biking, running and walking locations, and a great place to unwind after shopping on Third Street or dining on Ocean Avenue.

A few well - known places to buy a bike in Belize City are Hop Sing (227-2089) and Quan's Trading Center (227-5774), both located on Orange Street, and Super Store on Central American Blvd.

In an effort to become the world's greenest city by 2020, Vancouver has been putting more bike lanes on streets.

Hook up with Chepe Cletas for a bike tour of the city, walk around the pedestrian street in the central area, pop into the market and eat at one of the vendors, check out the theater, dip into the organic farmer's market, and have a fancy dinner on Calle 33.

Any children riding on their own bike should be: accompanied by a legal guardian, able to keep up with an average adult bicycle pace, and have experience riding on city streets with traffic.

Ofo isn't just dumping a bunch of bikes on the street, but is «providing Bikeability training in the city to encourage new and lapsed riders to try the scheme and ride more often.»

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.

O'Rourke always hated the bike (in print, at least), and now that it's becoming more of a needed transportation mainstay on crowded American city streets, reducing pollution and carbon dioxide emissions and improving health, O'Rourke is airing his feelings once again.

That's some effective bike promotion, if I've ever seen it... Will other cities see this information and start doing more for bike lane planning than simply laying them on the side of the street?

Despite it being one of the most popular folding bikes in the world, and a regular sight on the streets of many cities, The Brompton folding bike doesn't seem to have featured too heavily on TreeHugger.

Our hope is that as more blue bikes arrive on city streets, that everyone will give it a try.»

High season for cycling is here, along with more riders on city streets than ever before, due to more bike lanes and an acceptance of bicycles as legitimate transportation.

But in August, the city's newest protected bike lane, on Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia, became immediately controversial.

In 2014, the city council narrowly approved plans to create a 4 - mile network of protected bike lanes on four downtown streets all at once.

Feeling remarkably similar to Bogota's Ciclovia, the New York City Department of Transportation held its first Summer Streets event on Saturday by opening 7 miles of city streets to pedestrians and bike traffic oCity Department of Transportation held its first Summer Streets event on Saturday by opening 7 miles of city streets to pedestrians and bike traffic ocity streets to pedestrians and bike traffic only.

New York City's protected bike lane on 9th Avenue led to a 56 percent reduction in injuries to all street users, including a 57 percent reduction in injuries to people on bikes and a 29 percent reduction in injuries to people walking, as well as an 84 percent reduction in sidewalk riding.

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.

Meanwhile, existing bike share cities across the country expanded and explored new ways to get people of all colors, shapes, income levels and athleticism into their seats and on the streets.

So we made this four - minute video based on visits to three of our first focus cities — Austin, Chicago and Memphis, plus some footage from New York and DC — to give more people a sense of the way protected bike lanes are improving American streets and cities.

The bikes can be taken from, and returned to, any Humana tent in the city — thereby providing a carbon - free form of transportation from the Colorado Convention Center, to the Pepsi Center area, to The Big Tent on Wynkoop Street, up and down the 16th Street Mall, and everywhere else.

With the success of pilot projects such as the cycle tracks of Richmond & Adelaide, the contra - flow lane on Shaw Street, the Bloor Street bike lanes; the popular Bike Share program run by the City through the Toronto Parking Authority and with the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good hands.

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.

It's on Sherbourne Street, a block east of the soon to be painted out Jarvis Street bike lanes that keep city councillors from getting home in time for dinner.

For in - city commuting, an e-bike is nearly ideal, since you get the advantages of a bike (bike lanes, effectively no traffic) but can wear street clothes and not work up a sweat on the hills.

Will other cities see this information and start doing more for bike lane planning than simply laying them on the side of the street?

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

People who bike and walk in Toronto staged a «die - in» Monday evening, lying down on the concrete in front of the iconic city hall to highlight how many people are dying for real in the streets of the city.

Charlotte Mayor Bill Davis said it was «absolutely» true that in Charlotte kids can't ride their bike on roads owned by the town; a resolution passed by the town in 2003 states that no one can «ride an all terrain vehicle, skateboard, roller blades, and roller skates or conduct similar activities on the city streets, in the city park or on the Court Square of Charlotte.»

The Cyclist's Manifesto explores, to some considerable depth, why it might be that Americans are so adverse to riding bikes as transport on city streets.

On the last Friday of every month, hundreds of bike riding enthusiasts take to the streets for Critical Mass in Porto Alegre, Brazil to raise awareness of cycling in a city dominated by motor vehicles — but at their most recent event,

We know you don't want to show up at work looking all bedraggled from a commute in wet weather, or from biking through humid city streets on the steamiest summer mornings.

After recognizing the economic benefits of creating a network of bike paths on city streets, Portland, Oregon has unveiled a new traffic tool designed to ensure cyclists»

Bicycle tourism is a very niche (and seasonal) business, and a web - based service doesn't help much when you are poised on your bike saddle on the corner of Main Street and Division Street in Any City, USA, trying to figure out where to go and what to do.