Sentences with phrase «like bike lanes»

The Manhattan Activist Committee chooses local campaigns and fights for changes on - the - ground in their neighborhoods, like bike lanes and new pedestrian plazas.

The Brooklyn Activist Committee chooses local campaigns and fights for changes on - the - ground in their neighborhoods, like bike lanes and new pedestrian plazas.

The Queens Activist Committee chooses local campaigns and fights for changes on - the - ground in their neighborhoods, like bike lanes and new pedestrian plazas.

Not exact matches

Since 2006, Detroit has added 150 miles of new bike lanes, including some transformed from old railroads like the Dequindre Cut, says Todd Scott, head of the Detroit Greenways Coalition (and local bike historian).

With Parallel Domain, NIO can request a city - like interface with 20 blocks of bike lanes, buildings, pedestrians and so forth.

She has been generally supportive of initiatives like the expansion of the bike - lane network, pedestrian plazas, and neighborhood slow zones.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- With bike lanes and pedestrian plazas popping up everywhere, drivers feel like an endangered species in New York City.

Instead, he said city officials must do a better job listening to residents and working together to solve problems like school overcrowding and improving the city's controversial bike lanes.

Some, including Woody Allen, complain that Mayor Bill de Blasio, like Mike Bloomberg before him, is doing too much to encourage cycling by building new bike lanes.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he was prompted get involved in the crackdown after his Twitter feed was «filled with pictures of public employee parked into dangerous areas» like bus stops, bike lanes and cross walks.

In addition to strong support from LGBT groups and individual donors, Menchaca also drew endorsements from other progressive quarters, including StreetsPAC, a group working to improve the safety and calm of the city's thoroughfares through improvements like slow zones, pedestrian plazas, and bike lanes.

This sounds a lot like how I feel when I make the mistake of taking Broadway to get downtown, and for 5 blocks on either side of Times Square I inevitably find myself inundated with hoards of tourists walking in the bike lane and in the streets and crossing the street without looking — I practically bounce around off of them too.

To see it like a local, rent a bicycle and roll by using one of the readily available bike lanes.

In the beginning it felt like they were out to kill us in one foul swoop... cars, dogs, scooters, chickens, trucks, buses and bikes all sharing the one lane road coming at us in every direction.

There is that Trials - like element to it, but there's also just getting used to the lane switching, the way that the bike's handle as they turn, and slight quirks with the controls that Tate are still refining.

1) infrastructures, e.g, initiatives like the Berkeley plan of «giving away» solar installs to all their residents, incentives, public transportation, bike lanes, free light bulbs, etc

Most of the roads that do have bike lanes are in disrepair, and given the traffic and bad drivers who also use these roads, riding a bike can seem like a death wish.

Obviously this is only a small step, but combined with ambitious infrastructure projects like more bike lanes, expansions in bike sharing, transit improvements, pedestrian zones, maybe some congestion pricing and better management of parking spaces, this can make a difference.

In other words, this is nothing like the narrow after - though of a bike lane many of us have in North America.

If those are the kind of wars that happen over bike lanes, I wonder what the fights will be like over elevated PRT networks.

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.

While it seems unrealistic to imagine American cities spending this type of money for bike lanes, it would certainly benefit cyclists in «real winter, real cyclists» cities like Minneapolis and New York.

1) Why better lanes matter: Academic research shows that the many people who would like to bike more, but don't, are particularly concerned about safety.

In Seattle, securing every new bike lane seems like a «tooth and nail» fight.

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.

These local areas are where decisions like including bike lanes or funding public transport, or supporting tax incentives solar and other forms of renewable energy, are made, and why we need people engaged in our community.

Chicago alone has built 32 projects, and protected bike lanes are also appearing in suburbs like Hillsboro, Oregon, which features three routes, and smaller communities like Springdale, Arkansas, with two.

Here in New York City, it feels like every time I get on my bike there is a new bike lane - sometimes on the left, sometimes buffered, and sometimes completely separated -LSB-...]

Even when you are biking in a nice, wide, partly protected bike lane you are breathing in the exhaust from all those cars while you pedal — and it doesn't smell like roses.

The initiative also aims to grow ridership among women, whom studies have shown are more likely to ride in safer traffic environments with features like protected bike lanes and one - way streets.

This looks like a pretty lame report... there is nothing about bike lane statistics... how many of these deaths occurred in locations with separated bike lanes, sharrows, 1 lane roads, 2 lane roads, highways?

That's why part of our program involves taking delegates from U.S. cities on curated tours of places like Rotterdam and Copenhagen, to see protected bike lanes in action and talk to the ordinary people who use them.

I'd like to see how the bike lanes work over more time.

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.»

Now we need more safe separated bike lanes like the new one on 9th Avenue.

In an analysis of seven U.S. cities, NACTO's third Equity Practitioners» Paper looks at the relationship between building bike lanes and bike safety, and finds that municipal policies that encourage bicycling, like introducing large - scale bike share programs, make it safer for everyone on a bike.

That means less money for bike lanes, and less money for routine things like fixing pot holes, and less money for big - ticket projects, too.

Beam notes that there are two kinds of cycling advocates: «Vehicularists» who say that bikes should act like cars, go where cars go and follow the rules for cars, and «facilitators» who demand an infrastructure of bike lanes, paths and separate bike - friendly rules.However Beam says that building bike lanes is just giving in to cars, giving up cyclist rights.

In places like downtown and along busy streets, where Greenways and shared - use paths are not really possible, cycle tracks can be used to extend the «high - comfort» network, and allow people to reach their destinations without having to use less comfortable bike lanes adjacent to high - speed traffic.

Mayor Rob Ford can complain about bike lanes all he wants but the fact is, when you start hitting numbers like 45 % everyone has to pay attention, these are serious numbers.

She writes that it «felt like it was too fast to feel comfortable in the bike lane, but not fast enough to feel comfortable in a regular lane,» a problem I didn't share.

This is a street not unlike others in Toronto, where cars and delivery vehicles commonly use the bike lane as their ATM drive - through, it is almost always blocked at Spadina Avenue like this.

This Minneapolis crew actually wants to use its pop - up protected bike lane to inspire a citywide network of permanent protected bike lanes — like what you see all over the Netherlands.

Now it is true that some drivers don't like having to share the road with the thousands of cyclists now commuting every day in those bike lanes which serve a lot more than delivery people and casual riders.

Cutting funding for bike lanes because there isn't enough demand is like cutting literacy funding because not enough people are reading.

This is why the work of people like Yvonne Bambrick and the Toronto Cyclists Union is so important; It looks like we have lost what the suburban politicians call the «war on the car» and that no matter who is elected, they are not going to spend 12 cents on paint for bike lanes and bike infrastructure improvements.

Basically, the colored bike lane is constructed using Lego - like blocks that snap together.

Check out StreetFilms» compendium of reasons why Boulder has achieved this milestone above - from safe routes to schools to hundreds of miles of bike lanes, it kinda looks like paradise for the two - wheelers among us.

It is particularly impressive when you look at the history of this particular bike lane, and the events that preceded it (like the protest ride above).

Studies show that the best way to keep cyclists safe on the road is to have better bike lanes and related infrastructure, but until those protected bike lanes are built, inventors and researchers are trying to come up with technology that protects cyclists like better, smarter bike helmets and, in this case, an app that warns drivers of nearby cyclists to keep those collisions from happening in the first place.