Sentences with phrase «build more bike lanes»

So in the end, if you want fewer cars on the road slowing you down, lower taxes for road maintenance, and reduced health care costs, what you want to do is build more bike lanes, promote cycling, subsidize bike share programmes and stop complaining about cyclists getting a free ride.

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

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It is also planning to build 72 miles of protected bike lanes, more than double of what the city offers now.

Investment in road building far exceeds that for active travel - public transport, footpaths and bike lanes - which Read more about Stop prioritising cars over kids» health, experts plead - Scimex

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.

To help bicyclists feel safer, building many more protected bike lanes is a start, as well as addressing the aforementioned social safety factors to bicycling.

«Not only is building better bike lanes and supporting them with long - term community engagement essential for safety, it's also an important step on the path to a more equitable bike infrastructure,» said Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Coalition.

The questions I'm left with are: Is it more worthwhile to attract people to bicycling than to build the absolute safest bike lanes?

-LSB-...] The solution is now fewer bikes, but even more bike garages (build them underground if need be), bike racks, bike lanes, etc!»

It's cool to see the big projects, like new bike shares being launched, or miles and miles of new separated bike lanes being built, but making the world more bike - friendly is also about lots and lots of small one - offs like this.

Three times as many people thought that bike lanes increased the desirability of their neighbourhoods as those who thought it decreased it; a large number of cyclists thought they would shop more in the area now that the protected bike lanes were built.

We have more buildings, more bike lanes, and so many more people, but we don't have any more roads.