Sentences with phrase «n't bicycle lanes»

Aren't bicycle lanes meant to be for show only?

Not exact matches

Despite the urgency of building a safe replacement, local politicians impeded the project — not just for years, but for decades — fighting over ancillary concerns such as its visual aesthetics and whether the bridge should include bicycle lanes.

Infrastructure investments in new train tracks or fast - lane bicycle paths, for example, might not only reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, but also decrease costs in other areas, because less roads and parking lots have to be built.

I found the system to be more generally useful than a traditional blind - spot monitor, as it would not only show me if the next lane over was clear, but also reveal bicycles and pedestrians when I wanted to make a right turn in the city.

Of course, there's always the bicycle and with segregated bike lanes people won't have to worry about getting hit by polluting cars:

Their planned intervention was to install bicycle lanes at the Toronto intersection where Jenna Morrison was crushed under the rear wheels of a truck, the driver of which claims he couldn't didn't see her, even though she was towing a trailer.

If these are small and light enough to qualify as a bicycle, not a motor vehicle, then they will require plenty of riding lanes and paths, as well as charging stations in and around cities, to be both street - legal and useful enough to gain traction.

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

On my first ride, as I rode in an exceptionally wide bicycle lane while sipping iced coffee before entering one of many bicycle roundabouts on the UC Davis campus, it was immediately apparent why close to 25 % of people in Davis choose to commute by bike and close to 50 % of students choose to arrive at campus by bike: it's safe, it's easy and there's no reason not to.

There were so many trails, signalized bicycle crossings, bike lanes, bollard - protected intersections and lanes that it was sometimes difficult to know where the community was channeling me to go - because it wasn't channeling me, it was allowing me to bike wherever I wanted.

So, you've got two conflicting points here: one is that two - way bike lanes are correlated with stronger bicycling growth than any other type of protected bike lane in this NITC report (more research needs to be done to confirm causation, not simply correlation), and second is that on - street two - way bike lanes are considerably less safe than on - street one - way bike lanes according to numerous bicycle planning experts and authorities.

There are not a lot of choices when one decides to bicycle across Canada; there is really just the two - lane Trans - Canada Highway that is shared by every transport truck, sober or drunk driver or cyclist trying to cross the country, like Daniel Hurtubise

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).

The key findings of fact made at trial were that «the Plaintiff was not speeding and was properly riding his bicycle in the correct lane, the curb lane, in accordance with the traffic signals.

[25] While I doubt the legislative intention was to create by this somewhat convoluted statutory route what would be thousands of miles of unmarked and ill - defined bicycle lanes across the province, I do not consider s. 158 (1)(b) constitutes an applicable exception to the prohibition against passing on the right in any event.

The definition doesn't require the bicycle lane to meet all of the conditions listed, just at least one of...