Sentences with phrase «over bike lanes»

But here we are, 80 years later and still fighting over bike lanes.

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

I usually describe cycling in Toronto as life in the Fedex Lane but it appears that it should have a new name, the Beck Lane, after Toronto's biggest taxi company, which appears to have taken over the bike lanes as their own dedicated parking areas.

The hearing was poorly publicized and attended, and Gerson did little to make the debate over the bike lane public or engaged.

In a recent battle over a bike lane in Toronto, a company that sells pianos said it would kill his business!

Not exact matches

A cyclist claims the Senator, pretending to be a cop and while driving in the bike lane, attempted to pull the rider over.

However, Markowitz has also infuriated his share of constituents, including bike activists over his opposition of a bike lane at Prospect Park West.

In recent months, bicyclists and communities have clashed over the number of bike lanes across the city.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — When other elected officials around the city were giving their state of the district speeches back in the summer, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez decided to postpone his — citing a flurry of staff changes, zoning battles over the controversial Sherman Plaza project and plans to increase bike lanes in the area.

Investment in road building far exceeds that for active travel - public transport, footpaths and bike lanes - which Read more about Stop prioritising cars over kids» health, experts plead - Scimex

I loved how they promote biking all over the city with more than ample bike lanes and bike parking.

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.

You may blast off a ramp with bounce and boost, sending your bike pirouetting wildly, pulling tricks all the while, then land on your back wheel to keep the combo, bounce over a road block and then deftly switch lane at a junction to avoid an upcoming obstacle.

Back in 1997, the festival flirted with extravagance, tapping some 80 artists to create work, but has since dialed that back, and this year offered 35 Projekte, viewable over two relaxed days» worth of cruising the city's spacious bike lanes.

The Insert Loved One Here pages show a wide mix of trucks in bike lanes, lousy infrastructure and dangerous situations from all over the world.

Last weekend they even took over a protected bike lane, with twenty taxis, each carefully parked between the posts that are supposed to keep cars out.

Where I live, they can barely scratch up the money and political will to paint in a bike lane; every one is a battle with storekeepers over parking, with suburbanites calling it a «war on the car».

Starting today, May 22 and going through June 5, Portland is creating pop - up bike and pedestrian lanes by taking over a 15 - foot, mile - long stretch of pavement normally reserved for northbound car and truck traffic.

On the other you have the nimble, flexibility of cities that over the past decade have installed collectively thousands of new miles of bike lanes, bus lanes, plazas and pilot projects.

Over four days, I probably could count the number of cars I saw blocking a bike lane on one hand.

In 2009, Mayor Nutter — known derisively in some circles as «Mayor Bike Lane» — oversaw a road diet on Spruce and Pine streets that gave over a lane of car traffic to bike lanes.

In recent years, together with our Brooklyn counterparts, we secured the protected bike lane over the Pulaski and the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge bike lane, Phase One and Two of the Queens Boulevard Redesign, and the beginnings of a great bicycle network surrounding Astoria Park.

In addition to creating bike lanes and trails in all its cities, the system also often gives cyclists the advantage over motorists in right - of - way and at traffic lights.

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.

The truth about how many people cycle to their jobs matters because Mayor Bloomberg and DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan are using a supposed increase to justify their crazed campaign to install new bike lanes all over town — at drivers» and pedestrians» expense.

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).

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.

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

Over the past decade, sections of First and Second Avenue without pedestrian islands and bike lanes have shown six times the number of serious traffic crashes than the rest of the avenues.

Soon an inchy - winchy portion of that will be given over to bicycles, as the southern Australian city gets it own Euro - style bike lanes.

(of course, all over the world, they are building light rail and bike lanes).

The popular Broadway Boulevard project, which turned a lane of traffic on the landmark street into a plaza and protected bike lane, is just the start; over the last two years, 52 acres of roadbed have been similarly transformed.

Manhole covers, sewer grates, even this stretch of bike lane, all the usual obstructions that I go around, I just rode right over.

There is a war on the car right now you know, where those cyclists are taking over the roads, where driving lanes and parking spaces are being lost to bike lanes which is killing businesses everywhere, and where cyclists are getting killed by crashing into buses without wearing helmets and have nobody to blame but themselves.

They're just not expressly marked as bike lanes and have faded into usage as roadside pathways or parking, or have been grassed over.

It really is biking heaven for the cyclist in Copenhagen with over 390 kilometres of designated bike lanes.

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.

The fleet could grow to 2,500 in the next four to five years, capitalizing on the new bike lanes and separated tracks that have helped biking in Long Beach jump 70 percent over the last 4 years.

Dozens of taxis have been photographed illegally using bike lanes as taxi ranks in Toronto over one 24 hour period this weekend, causing bemusement among cyclists and, apparently, the companies they work for.

But in some places there are turf wars brewing over the use of electric bikes and scooters in bike lanes.

And when someone calls me, i touch one button on the ear buds and start talking... again over 90 % of my bike commute is on non-car bike lanes.

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To improve safety, he said, pedestrians and cyclists need physical barriers like protected bike lanes — an idea gaining popularity around the U.S. but also causing fights in some places over reduced parking or travel lanes.

It is a lovely vision, shown in the rendering above, with the roadway turned into grass and bike lanes, and trees planted on the Westminster Bridge; There is no question that it is much improved over the same view today on Google:

Jersey City has already added 22 miles of bike lanes to the street grid over the past two years alone.

Over 80 miles of running and biking trails exist in the City of Albuquerque, and nearly all main thoroughfares have dedicated bike lanes.

The city of Pasadena actually has over 12 miles of dedicated bike lanes on its roadways.

Following snowfall over Thanksgiving, for example, it took over two days for city crews to remove snow from the protected bike lanes located throughout the West Side.

It took over a week for bike lanes to be cleared following the snowfall occurring at the end of the year and some bike lanes still remain blocked.

: The city supports bicycle infrastructure and bicycle safety measures, including $ 1 billion over a nine - year period for bicycle and pedestrian improvements and protected bike lanes, and their bicycle share is growing, expanding stations and even including electric - assisted models.