Sentences with phrase «for protected bike lanes»

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.

Brooklyn Community Board 6 endorsed the DOT plan for protected bike lanes on Fourth Avenue last night, with a nearly unanimous vote.

She's been a staunch advocate for protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, Select Bus Service and congestion pricing.

She's determined to make Central Park's loop fully car - free, and will push for protected bike lanes on the Park's transverses.

He's committed to making Central Park, once and for all, completely car - free, to advocating for protected bike lanes on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, and to leading an effort to improve conditions on the city's greenways, including the Cherry Walk section of the Hudson River Greenway, which is badly in need of safety improvements.

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They blocked the construction of a gas - fired power plant, campaigned for a new shoreline walking path, and pressed transportation officials to remake a major street, adding trees and protected bike lanes, among other measures.

In her district, she supports the redesign of the Grand Concourse with protected bike lanes and other enhanced street designs that improve safety for all users.

«This ceaseless commitment will continue this year with a community - supported bus lane, pedestrian refuge islands and a protected bike path on First Avenue straight through East Harlem, and we will continue to push for speed cameras to make our streets and our schoolchildren even safer,» he said.

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.

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

Manuel Calvo had spent years in Sevilla bicycling activism and was working as a sustainability consultant when he landed the contract to plan a protected bike lane network for his city.

You won't find ample, Copenhagen - style protected bike lanes yet, but the on - going removal of car parking is clearing space for many wide, red curbside bike lanes.

We did empirical research to figure out the best language for these facilities and settled on «protected bike lane.»

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

DOT has deferred its plan for a two - way protected bike lane on Clinton Avenue, saying it will return to Brooklyn Community Board 2 next month.

DOT plans to add protected bike lanes on 26th Street and 29th Street in Manhattan, with other crosstown routes in the works for Midtown.

For instance, you could build a model of the street you live on, add a protected bike lane, a bike rack, or see how a road diet might affect things.

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.

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.

These trails play an important role for transportation, too, especially when they are well - linked to protected bike lanes and neighborhood greenways.

When one of the protected bike lanes crossed one of these streets, there were sharrows and a bike signal, but the vast expanse of the intersection would not be inviting for new cyclists.

When protected bike lanes are installed in New York City, injury crashes for all road users (drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) typically drop by 40 percent and by more than 50 percent in some locations.

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.

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition - No, protected bike lanes are probably not too expensive for your city to build

38 percent of people biking on Sherbourne Street in Toronto switched to biking for that trip after Sherbourne got a protected bike lane.

After a protected bike lane was installed on Chicago's Kinzie Street: Bicycle ridership on increased 55 percent, according to morning rush hour counts; Forty - one percent of respondents changed their usual route to take advantage of the new lane; Bicyclists accounted for a majority of all eastbound traffic (53 percent) and more than one third (34 percent) of total street traffic during a CDOT traffic count conducted during morning rush hour in August 2011.

Must - Do Ride If you're looking for a more relaxed ride, you can jump on the protected bike lanes on University Drive that connect Arizona State University and downtown Tempe.

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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.»

According to the DOT, streets with protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements lead to a 50 percent reduction in fatalities and injuries for all street users.

Consistent design for Select Bus Service, protected bike lanes and pedestrians will improve safety and business along Second Avenue.

Lloyd wrote up a great article yesterday summarizing the epic bike protected bike lane study that just came out from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities.

While the protected bike lanes were wonderful and comfortable, the traffic signal design, which was designed for motor vehicles, made it awfully tempting to break the law and run red lights.

Protected bike lanes have been shown to reduce traffic crashes for all users by 34 %.

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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.

NACTO's research also highlights the importance of protected bike lanes in making bike share a real option for people of all cycling abilities.

This study might have implications for road safety, and provides more ammunition to those pushing for separate protected bike lanes.

Some of the increase in ridership at each facility likely came from new riders (i.e. riders who, absent the protected bike lane, would have travelled via a different mode or would not have taken the trip) and some from riders diverted from other nearby streets (i.e. riders who were attracted to the route because of the facility, but would have chosen to ride a bicycle for that trip regardless).

Following snowfall over Thanksgiving, for example, it took over two days for city crews to remove snow from the protected bike lanes located throughout the West Side.

The city of Austin received a federal grant for the bicycle traffic signals two years ago, and the signals will be installed on major routes where protected bike lane infrastructure already exists, the Austin Transportation Department announced.

: The city supports bicycle infrastructure and bicycle safety measures, including $ 1 billion over a nine - year period for bicycle and pedestrian improvements and protected bike lanes, and their bicycle share is growing, expanding stations and even including electric - assisted models.