Sentences with phrase «increased bicycling»

The FHWA's Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program also estimated the economic savings resulting from reduced mortality as a result of increased bicycling in the pilot communities from 2007 to 2013.

By 2030, our goal is increasing bicycling fourfold.

Despite various efforts to increase bicycling safety — such as installing designated bicycle lanes — this increase in bicycle travel has led to an increase in bicycle accidents.

Not exact matches

Don't go four - wheeling, bicycling, skiing, or other activities where you majorly increase your and your baby's risk of falling.

I also have a «stand up» job which does increase my calorie burn over and beyond the bicycling.

Local bicyclist and pedestrian counts corroborate this finding of recent increases in bicycling and walking.

Over the course of a year and a half, the Department increased its work to address non-motorized safety issues and help communities create safer, better connected bicycling and walking networks.

Walking and bicycling are efficient transportation modes for most short trips and, where convenient intermodal systems exist, these non-motorized trips can be linked with transit to significantly increase trip distance.

It solves some of the main barriers to bicycling - it tackles the hills, increases riders» range, helps with the hauling, and nearly solves the sweat issue.

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.

As a part of my graduate work at Virginia Tech's Alexandria urban planning program, I asked managers of current and planned North American bike sharing systems what they have done to increase access to bike sharing for low - income communities, and minority groups disproportionately underrepresented in bicycling.

From 2006 - 2011, bicycling in San Francisco increased 71 percent.

After New York City installed a protected bike lane on Columbus Avenue, bicycling increased 56 percent on weekdays, crashes decreased 34 percent, speeding decreased, sidewalk riding decreased, traffic flow remained similar, and commercial loading hours / space increased 475 percent.

On Market Street, bicycling increased 115 percent from 2006, and 43 percent from 2010.

While bicycling increased quite a lot on all streets studied where protected bike lanes were added, but it really exploded on two of the streets where two - way bike lanes were added.

«It appears that motorists adjust their behaviour in the presence of increasing numbers of people bicycling because they expect or experience more people cycling.

Policies that increase the numbers of people walking and bicycling appear to be an effective route to improving the safety of people walking and bicycling.»

(Remember that bicycling also increases a great deal as ridership increases.)

In my 10 years of bicycling in the city, I have been fortunate enough not to be knocked off my bike at the hands of streetcar tracks, but my rear tire has occasionally been caught in the track, causing a brief slide and an drastically increased heart rate — but no fall.

Two years ago I wrote For Bicylists, There is Safety in Numbers noting the work of Chris Rissel, who said «It appears that motorists adjust their behaviour in the presence of increasing numbers of people bicycling because they expect or experience more people cycling.»

These results suggest that transportation and health policymakers who aim to reduce bicycling injury rates in the population should focus on factors related to increased cycling mode share and female cycling choices.

With the huge growth in bicycling in the last few years, there have been increasing numbers of tragic accidents.

Unfortunately, with the increase in bicycling commuters has come an increase in the number of bicycle accidents that happen in Chicago and in the surrounding suburbs.

After 20 years of declining bicycle accident rates, the National Highway Transportation Association (NHTSA) has released statistics showing the number of bicycling injuries and deaths have rapidly increased in the past few years.