Sentences with phrase «parking protected bike lane»

The redesign would add a two - way parking protected bike lane on Clinton between Flushing Avenue and Gates Avenue, converting the street from two - way motor vehicle flow to one - way northbound.

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He's committed to making Central Park, once and for all, completely car - free, to advocating for protected bike lanes on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, and to leading an effort to improve conditions on the city's greenways, including the Cherry Walk section of the Hudson River Greenway, which is badly in need of safety improvements.

She's determined to make Central Park's loop fully car - free, and will push for protected bike lanes on the Park's transverses.

The DOT has focused on building parking - protected bike lanes while expanding Citi Bike.

The «widespread abuses» included unmarked police cars cutting through protected bike lanes, wrong - way bicycle traffic, and pedestrians and parked cars blocking cycling lanes.

The petition, signed by almost 800 people as of Saturday, asks the city to consider a two - way protected bike lane — similar to the one on Prospect Park West — from Grand Army Plaza to Empire Boulevard.

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.

You won't find ample, Copenhagen - style protected bike lanes yet, but the on - going removal of car parking is clearing space for many wide, red curbside bike lanes.

Because they use planters, curbs, parked cars or posts to separate bike and auto traffic on busy streets, protected lanes are essential to building a full network of bike - friendly routes.

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.

With the support of hundreds of Brooklynites, the Brooklyn Activist Committee members hosted a street rally and a family bike parade in support of the two - way protected bike lane on Prospect Park West, which they helped secure by being an active force in the local community.

The ride started along the new Queensbridge Park Greenway, traveling through Sunnyside to Queens Boulevard and its new protected bike lanes, before wrapping up at Queens Borough Hall.

On Salt Lake City's Broadway, replacing parking with protected bike lanes increased retail sales.

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.

It is obvious that assigning a pair of traffic cops to park on a protected bike lane (statistically ten times safer than anywhere else in the city) for a few days each summer, to meet an arbitrary quota of $ 29 fines has little to do with keeping road users safe.

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.

Since 2011, Chicago has added more than 100 miles of bike lanes that are protected with barriers like bollards and concrete curbs, or extra space that provides a buffer between the parked cars and bike pathway.