Sentences with phrase «cycle lanes»

But there is a thriving bike culture, helped by nearly 400 miles of cycle lanes, about 150 miles of which are separated from motor traffic.

I think the best thing to improve cycling would be a major investment in cycle lanes.

With cycle lanes across the city, a bike is a great way to get about.

The 8 km cycle lane hugs the coastline and offers plenty of places to stop on route and enjoy the scenery.

This has important implications for the width of cycle lanes and implies that their width should never be compromised.

SkyCycle is the next logical step, because you can't realistically build more cycle lanes on ground level.

The «widespread abuses» included unmarked police cars cutting through protected bike lanes, wrong - way bicycle traffic, and pedestrians and parked cars blocking cycling lanes.

Take Seville, often reckoned too hot and cramped for cyclists, which has gone from 2,000 cycle trips per day to 72,000 in seven years, thanks to mayor Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín's strategy of building cycle lanes, reducing road space for cars and launching a cycle hire scheme.

Senior figures at Transport for London (TfL) believe Boris Johnson is trying to rush through his plans for segregated cycle lanes in London too quickly, Politics.co.uk can reveal

Six years later with the growing number of bikes on our roads, more and more cycle lanes being introduced and the introduction of excellent schemes which I take advantage of such as the cycle hire scheme in London.

Superblocks will be complemented by the introduction of 300 km of new cycling lanes (there are currently around 100 km), as well as an orthogonal bus network that has already been put in place, whereby buses only navigate a series of main thoroughfares.

City planners should respond to unsafe cycle lanes by improving, not removing them, Toronto critical injury lawyer and road safety activist Patrick Brown... Read more

Lord Tebbit probably should have anticipated a bit of Noble banter when he rose to complain about cycle lanes on Victoria Embankment.

The London Assembly's report «Hostile Streets — Walking and Cycling at Outer London Junctions» says that some roads in outer boroughs do not offer even a basic level of service, with crossings inaccessible to wheelchairs and incomplete cycle lanes that push cyclists out into fast moving traffic.

Armitt's comments came as he attempted to block Johnson's proposals to install a number of new segregated cycle lanes across London.

Led by former Conservative minister John Redwood, the group has also proposed removing cycle lanes where they are sandwiched between busy traffic lanes.

Extra cash will go on cycling proficiency lessons for 100,000 children in the UK, as well as on cycle lanes linked to schools.

Puerto Ayora offers some great cycle lanes and there are many places that rent bicycles.

«Boris has chosen a nice Tory blue, which he seems to have modelled on the blue cycle lanes you get in Copenhagen.The problem is that he has only taken the colour and not the design.

28 The Westway is also being reconstructed to add cycle lanes, which will lower its vehicle capacity and increase congestion — but Tory didn't mention that bit.

Graduate student Ciaran Meyers attached a special camera to his bike and found that motorists gave him an extra 18.1 cm (7.12 inches) when there was no marked cycle lane than they did when there was a lane.

The project has also established cycling lanes on some of the campus roads at the local Yüzüncü Yıl University, trained new cyclists, and introduced local people to the sport through cycling tours of the city center and Van's historic attractions.

Unfortunately some urban cycle lanes are within the dooring zone, encouraging cyclists to ride dangerously close to parked cars.

Bicyclists, at least, can use cycle lanes and even sidewalks if they are available and are much rarer on the open highways, but motor cyclist are forced to use the same shared space as other road users.

Moore Blatch head of RTA team, Lee Harris says: «From the accidents that we are seeing cyclist visibility continues to play an important element in the cause of accidents — so improving road infrastructure, so that there are better cycle lanes and more priority given to cyclists is definitely a step in the right direction.»

In addition, to combat parking problems and pollution many cities around the globe have retrofitted their roads with cycle lanes.

And while it's true that the city has invested a significant amount of energy in cycling lanes and the like to make it as bike - friendly as possible, the trend toward cycling has also meant there's now safety in numbers.

As long as you have the right gear, a helmet, you look after your bike, be cautious and stay in the cycle lane, you will enjoy cycling to work and you will soon become an addict!

When the streets is red you know it's a cycle lane, and otherwise there's pretty clear paint on the road that says «cycle lane».

«And then later, after causing this incident, the Secretary of State complained about cyclists and cycle lanes in London.»

build some cycling lanes to satisfy at least some voters!

Cyclists are very well catered for in Cambridge, with cycle paths and cycle lanes that make getting around the city very easy.

Infrastructure such as cycle lanes is also poor in the UK compared to other European nations and many claim that private gyms remain prohibitively expensive.

Cycle lanes have been constructed, lockers provided and measures have been introduced to reduce theft, such as serial number stamping schemes.

Cycle lanes and high taxes on cars make bicycles the preferred method for getting to school or work, even by 63 per cent of members of the Danish parliament, the Folketing.

One of these is the way to see the mobility in city centre: cycle lanes, electric cars, increased use of public transport, deliveries with electric vehicles.

The cycle lane takes you either in the direction of Tableview along the beachfront or right into Cape Town city centre.

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If the roads are too narrow to take cars, cycle lanes and a pavement wide enough to allow pedestrians to walk or run in comfort, then cars will have to go.

Others may feel differently, but my commute to work doesn't have full cycle lanes, and some parts that do have cycle lanes have potholes that could easily break a wheel, and branches that force you into traffic to get around them.

At the time, I was walking and cycling on Hornby Street in Vancouver, which has concrete planters protecting the cycle lane, which also protects the sidewalk.