Sentences with phrase «installing protected bike lanes»

We call on the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of installing protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements.

The city of Atlanta received one of six grants totaling $ 100,000 from outdoor retailer REI to install a protected bike lane on Westview Drive.

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.

Not exact matches

Along nine blocks of Oakland's Telegraph Avenue, biking is up 78 percent since protected bike lanes were installed.

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.

Only three percent of cyclists didn't use the protected lane, compared to before it was installed, when 12 percent of riders rode in the street instead of in the bike lane.

Where protected lanes were installed in New York and Washington D.C., the number of bikes on sidewalks immediately fell by an average of 56 percent.

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.

Boulder has also installed a pilot protected bike lane, allowed electric bikes on paths to accommodate an aging population, and will nearly double its bike - share system by adding 16 more stations.

In a collaboration with the city, Massachusetts Institute of Technology installed one of the country's first protected bike lanes on its campus in 2004.

As the City of Albany contemplates whether to spend a little extra money to install and maintain its first protected bike lane on Madison Avenue, new data from the NYS Department of Health (NYSDOH) brings home the...

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 has added new, high - quality cycling facilities, created protected bike lanes, and installed over 800 new bike racks.