Sentences with phrase «of more bike lanes»

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«Fort Collins offers more than 285 miles of bike lanes and trails.

Chicago's cycling infrastructure is speeding ahead, with more than 100 miles of protected bike lanes — and counting.

A new bicycle master plan recommends 300 miles of bike lanes throughout Buffalo — more than triple the amount that the city has now — to provide a safer, more connected network that encourages more bicycling.

Six years later with the growing number of bikes on our roads, more and more cycle lanes being introduced and the introduction of excellent schemes which I take advantage of such as the cycle hire scheme in London.

It is also planning to build 72 miles of protected bike lanes, more than double of what the city offers now.

With these easy bike repairs, every cyclist can spend more time out of the garage and in the fast lane.

Despite the dense urban - northeast feel of this city, more than one out of 200 Philly commuters ride a bike to work, and the city boasts an impressive 260 miles of bike lanes and paths — 16.8 miles per 100,000 people.

A full 2.2 percent of commuters get to and from work by bike, and the city features more than 44 miles of bike lanes and bike paths for every 100,000 people — 251 miles altogether.

Car - centric Los Angeles has recently added 40 miles of bike lanes all over town and has plans for an ambitious 200 more miles in the next five years.

Gear up and join us on Adventure Ridge in beaver creek for an awesome day of tubing lanes, snowmobile tracks for kids, ski bikes and much more packed into an area the size of a football stadium.

The predominately flat city has more than 130 km of bike lanes and a sharing system.

Aside from those amenities, one could also find enjoyment and fun through these facilities that are also available to all residents and their guests of Tagaytay Highlands: two indoor badminton courts with Italian rubber vinyl flooring, wood - floored indoor basketball court, billiards hall, 14 - lane disco bowling center with computerized scoring system and specially - designed neon balls and pins, two indoor squash courts, heated indoor lap pool, Sauna and steam bath, indoor table tennis, three outdoor tennis courts with synthetic grass surface, children's recreation and learning center, fishing pier, pony trail, kids» biking course, 9 - hole mini-golf links, horseback riding ring and a 2.8 - km bridle path, tree house, camping grounds and facilities, indoor and outdoor children's playground, swimming pools, outdoor pools with Jacuzzi clusters and many more.

An avid bicyclist herself, Sadik - Khan has overseen the creation of more than 250 miles of on - street bike lanes to aid in the DOT's goal of increasing safety and transportation options for all New Yorkers.

The story has in fact gone global, with coverage as far away as London's Road.cc which published Taxi drivers caught parking en masse in Toronto bike lanes, noting that there was more than one case of this.

More than protected bike lanes, the key to Cambridge's success has been the management of motor vehicle traffic.

A great feature in the report is the analysis and recommendations, which combine education (of drivers as well as cyclists), engineering (more and better bike lanes!)

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.

Regardless, the increase in riders points to the fact that when a city improves awareness of and infrastructure for cycling — New York has added 140 miles of bike lanes since 2007 — more people will get on their bikes.

This review will be illustrated with some of the more bizarre tweets about bike lanes to come out of the city, mostly via Mark Treasure of the GB Cycling Embassy

Studying bike lanes in 90 or the 100 largest American cities, Pucher and collaborater Ralph Buehl used Pearson's correlation, bivariate quartile analysis, and two different types of regressions to measure the relationship between more and longer bike lanes and quantity of cyclists.

I saw my own reservations about commuting by bike in Portland: I wish there were more compassionate drivers, I wish the bike lanes felt safer, I wish I knew the rules of the road as it relates to biking.

That's some effective bike promotion, if I've ever seen it... Will other cities see this information and start doing more for bike lane planning than simply laying them on the side of the street?

It's why we need infrastructure, bike lanes, lower speed limits, safer roads, and more cyclists on the road for safety in numbers, instead of scaring cyclists off the roads by making them afraid to go out unless they are suited up in neon.

Chicago is becoming more bike friendly, and an important step in that direction will be the created of 100 miles of protected bike lanes.

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.

So, while New York has built more than 70 miles of protected bike lanes in the last decade, here it can require years of consensus building to win Council approval for a single, one - mile stretch.

Jersey City has added 22 new miles of bike lanes over the past two years and bike share represents the next big step in creating a more bike - friendly city.

Contrail leaves an impression based on the cumulative movements of many cyclists over time (a more lasting variation on the BYO bike lane concept employed by the laser - projected LightLane).

75 percent of people who live near a protected bike lane project say they support more in other locations.

One mile of roadway planned through Golden Gate Park is 1,283 times more expensive to San Franciscans than one mile of protected bike lane.

Further, disparage my alleged logical fallacies all you please, but your fallacious choice of Avoiding The Argument by trying to impress us with your erudition with differentials purposefully avoids addressing my point: Only 1,994 more cyclist over last year, despite all the bike lanes and hoopla.

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.

A redesign of NYC's Union Square to include a protected bike lane resulted in 49 % fewer commercial vacancies, compared to 5 % more throughout Manhattan.

Chicago's Divvy for Everyone is improving bike equity and enabling more Chicagoans to take advantage of the city's 100 new, smooth and glistening miles of bike lanes.

In San Francisco, thanks to the installation of more protected bike lanes, bike commuting has nearly doubled in the last ten years.

«Not only is building better bike lanes and supporting them with long - term community engagement essential for safety, it's also an important step on the path to a more equitable bike infrastructure,» said Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Coalition.

So we made this four - minute video based on visits to three of our first focus cities — Austin, Chicago and Memphis, plus some footage from New York and DC — to give more people a sense of the way protected bike lanes are improving American streets and cities.

The only way to get people out of cars is to make driving more difficult and make alternatives more comfortable; bring on the bike lanes and take out the car lanes.

I think the big draws of such bike lanes are that they are much more visible, which makes people notice them and consider biking for transportation, and that they seem to be much safer at a glance, which has the same effect.

«Complete» streets take ideas such as dedicated bike lanes, reduced street width, transit accommodations and pedestrian medians to make non-automobile users of streets safer and more apt to use different ways of getting around.According to Complete the Streets

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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.

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.

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All the major cycling - related arguments have been won: bike lanes are popular; they don't hurt local businesses; more biking doesn't lead to more accidents; bike lanes make pedestrians safer and don't impede the flow of car traffic.

Not because there is no more room for bike lanes in London, which isn't true, but because these kinds of bike lanes serve a totally different purpose.

Musing about what it would take to get more people in other cities to hop on bikes, Notaras mentions some of the many initiatives in Japan to promote cycling, including the Green Pedal Map, which provides information in English and Japanese «on bike lanes, danger zones, rental locations, bike parks and so on,» as well as the leadership role that needs to be played by government and businesses.

In a confused article on PSFK, Ido Lechner channels Dorothy Rabinowitz and suggests that a) New York drivers are frustrated by bike lanes that are stealing parking spaces and driving lanes for the benefit of take - out delivery people and casual riders, and b) «the growing number of people encouraged to abandon their cars or the subway in favor of a more health - minded and eco-friendly pursuit inevitably spikes the number of biker - related casualties.»

More on Liveable Streets from our Friends at StreetFilms Wikis Take Manhattan StreetFilm's Visits Boulder's Contraflow Bike - Lane Free Bikes for Governors Island StreetFilms Covers Best of Bike to Work Day Raised Cross-walks Traffic - calming Chicanes Bike Advocate Keeps Memory of Her Husband Alive Clarence the Cycling Sasquatch Bogota Shows How to Reinvent Cities Bogota Revisited StreetFilms Looks at Bus Rapid Transit in LA Melbourne: A Pedestrian's Paradise Istanbul Learns from Bogota Clarence: The Purple Traffic - Calming Wizard Physically Separated Bike Lanes NYC's First Documented Bike Move?