Sentences with phrase «few bike lanes»

The top five reasons why people don't bike more: they need a vehicle for work, school or other reasons; the places they need to go are too far to bike; they don't have a bike; they don't feel safe in traffic, and there are too few bike lanes or trails.

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).

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

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A few months ago, while on my bicycle, I was struck by a vehicle parked in a parallel lane next to the bike path, chasing pokemon on his phone, making an illegal U turn into my leg.

Whether you spent a few hundred or a few thousand dollars on your bike, whether you use it to commute to work or to cycle around the block with your kids, it's important to understand the rules of the bike lane and protect your financial investment with the proper insurance.

Boulder Bike Path Goes Against the Flow of Traffic There are not too many people who would spend their time making videos about bike lanes, and even fewer people who can do so and make those videos interesting.

As the above video highlights, Washington, D.C. recently implemented a bike - share program known as Smart Bike D.C. And much as cities like New York and Mexico City have been doing, D.C. has been busy adding miles of new bike lanes and cycling infrastructure to accommodate the rise in cycling caused in part by high gas prices.Bike - sharing programs, which have truly gone global the last few years, appear to be putting cycling on the radar of politicians, planning professionals, and commuters.

Funded in park by Clif Bar and People for Bikes, the experiment will include, in its last three days, an extension of the 15 - foot path for a few blocks further northward and creation of a bi-directional bike lane to test it as a possible fill - in to a noteworthy gap in Portland's bike network.

Elements such as protected bike lanes and off - street bike paths were associated with fewer collisions and falls.

One prominent local journalist attacked the protected bike lane network as «useless,» saying that because so few Sevillanos biked at the time, Sevillanos never would.

We write about the news and practice of the protected bike lane revolution a few times a week on our blog.

They checked out a few standard (painted) bike lanes and some of the newer (physically separated) facilities, of which the latter Mr. Blumenauer thought were superior.

A redesign of NYC's Union Square to include a protected bike lane resulted in 49 % fewer commercial vacancies, compared to 5 % more throughout Manhattan.

However, it took me months to realize that it was such a huge number, because there were only ever a few cars driving along the road; the road was a very narrow, two - lane road; and the only sounds that really stood out to me were the clicks of old bikes with warped fenders and the dings from the bike bells of «faster» bicyclists passing slower ones (of course, none of the Dutch bicyclists race down the road, but some casually bike a little faster than others).

Even UPS drivers, who believe that bike lanes exist for their convenience, (at least for parking) drove the few extra feet to avoid the bike lane.

5) Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been painted in the last few years, in Manhattan.

There is a «sensor line» in the asphalt on the bike lane a few metres in front of the counter which registers the cyclists.

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

A few months ago, I ran across a modular colored bike lane, The Copenhagenize Flow, developed by the bicycle enthusiasts and experts at Copenhagenize Design Company.

It is obvious that assigning a pair of traffic cops to park on a protected bike lane (statistically ten times safer than anywhere else in the city) for a few days each summer, to meet an arbitrary quota of $ 29 fines has little to do with keeping road users safe.

Much to my surprise, the Police Department tripled down and hired two more young internet savvy enforcement officers; I wrote that «we get so few crumbs tossed our way in the bike lanes.

Except for a few angry drivers, the first day of the Burrard Bridge bike lane experiment - with one traffic lane designated for bicycles - had a smooth start yesterday.

Having a car in New York is a pain in the seat — meanwhile, the subway gets you anywhere, relatively quickly, for a few bucks and every day it seems there are new Citi Bike stands and bike lanes.

We had to ride south on Avenue Road, keeping as close to the curb as possible on one of the busiest streets in town in the middle of rush hour, wondering what kind of governments hypocritically promote cycling and then neglect to provide any decent routes; that refuse to demand sideguards on trucks like they do in the UK; that refuse to enforce the few rules about parking or driving in bike lanes; and that refuse to ban cell phone use while driving when 80 % of accidents are caused by inattention of drivers.

Really, it is hard to come to any conclusion other than bike lanes work well, get people out of cars, and make everybody happy except for a few people who complain about the loss of parking, and of course, Rob Ford.

The installation of bike lanes, and the bikelash against them, has been grist for the mill of bike and urban design blogs for a while now, but in the last few days it has gone truly

(Not a few have said that they prefer the bike lanes on Jarvis, it is easier for them as well, not having to share the lane)

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.

You can watch how unused they are by having a cup of coffee on a street with a bike lane and counting the very few cyclists compared to the many motorists — even in the middle of summer.

Whether you spent a few hundred or a few thousand dollars on your bike, whether you use it to commute to work or to cycle around the block with your kids, it's important to understand the rules of the bike lane and protect your financial investment with the proper insurance.

Chaotic traffic and rampant vehicular pollution are common in many Indian cities, and few of them feature dedicated bike lanes.