Sentences with phrase «newer urban cyclists»

These dynamic intersections can be intimidating to newer urban cyclists, but they are actually pretty rider friendly.

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It was not put here because studies said it was a good place for it, or that it was needed; this is a political expediency, a sop to cyclists after former Mayor Rob Ford and henchman Denzil Minnan - Wong tore out brand new bike lanes on Jarvis Street, a 5 lane urban highway one block west, because it was slowing down drivers wanting to get home for dinner by oh, three minutes.

A nationwide coalition of organizations, Transportation for America is also calling for a a revamped system of transportation in America, including federal help in retrofitting unsafe urban roads, complete streets for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, more local and democratic decision - making and using transport to create affordable housing and jobs (they are talking about over 20 million new jobs in building new infrastructure and repairing the old).

Surely one of the world's greatest is New York's Central Park, where all is not a bucolic urban idyll, but an ongoing war between the cyclists, the runners and the dog owners.

Perhaps in the light of the increasing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists in the roads, the increasing number of fatalities, and the newfound popularity of trucks as weapons, it is time to reconsider our urban road designs and make protected bike lanes the new normal on busy streets.