Before anyone complains about
adding more bike lanes to this city, he / she should look at what congestion pricing did for London.
America's recent shift toward urban living would lend itself to a desire
for more bike lanes and public transportation, but that won't eliminate the need for interstates and quality roadways.
Creating more bike lanes sometimes draws the scofflaws into a safer area and they are less inclined to break traffic laws.
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.
Expect to
see more bike lanes and efforts to beautify with more plants, trees, and other natural features.
New York City Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson has recently started biking, and in this video he tells us why he decided to take the plunge and why he
thinks more bike lanes are a good thing for NYC.
Imagine if the headline after former Mayor Richard M. Daley announced plans to
add more bike lanes and bike racks had been: «Truck and bus drivers get nervous as bicycles proliferate.»
Desire
for more bike lanes was the clearest preference, but factors such as off - street bicycle paths, secure bicycle parking, and bicycling events — human infrastructure, in a sense — were important those surveyed as well.
France is experimenting with all kinds of ways to reduce pollution from transportation, from paying people to bike to the classics, like
creating more bike lanes and pedestrians areas.
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.
Maybe there's
more bike lanes.
He said he supports a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage,
more bike lanes and more worker - owned businesses.
We're delighted to see urban concepts like BIKE gaining acceptance - hopefully other cities will similarly go in the right direction - whether it's
more bike lanes, raising cycling awareness or city bike - sharing programs.
High season for cycling is here, along with more riders on city streets than ever before, due to
more bike lanes and an acceptance of bicycles as legitimate transportation.
Tucson is flat, so it's bikeable, and the city has been adding
more bike lanes and dedicate bike routes.
What London needs is
more bike lanes (especially physically separated ones) and maybe even some pedestrian - only streets.
«Bike - sharing and
more bike lanes will rebalance the roadways, I would say, in favor of people, versus in favor of traffic careening through the Loop and our neighborhoods,» Klein said.
With the construction of more and
more bike lanes and a greater emphasis on overall health, more people in Indiana are taking bike rides across the state.
This latest incident inOttawawill once again open a number of issues: The prevention of drinking and driving and reviewing increased penalties, the safety of all cyclists and the need for
more bike lanes and the importance of legal representation, compensation and resources for the victims.
We have more buildings,
more bike lanes, and so many more people, but we don't have any more roads.
57 % of those surveyed also wanted the City of Toronto to have
more bike lanes.