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It has long been clear that we need protected bike lanes in order to encourage mass bicycling.

NACTO's research also highlights the importance of protected bike lanes in making bike share a real option for people of all cycling abilities.

For more on protected bike lanes, aside from the studies referenced and linked above, be sure to check out Mike's great piece from last month: The rise of curbs: Protected bike lanes in the U.S. are growing up!

Since coming to work at the League in 2012 I had learned about Davis - the city with the highest rates of bike use in the United States; Davis - the city that began experimenting with protected bike lanes in the 1970s; Davis - the university that is closed to most car traffic; Davis - the community where a Bicycle Hall of Fame anchors a town square.

That's why part of our program involves taking delegates from U.S. cities on curated tours of places like Rotterdam and Copenhagen, to see protected bike lanes in action and talk to the ordinary people who use them.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

He's adamant about upgrading cycling conditions in his district with protected bike lanes and the expansion of Citi Bike.

In her district, she supports the redesign of the Grand Concourse with protected bike lanes and other enhanced street designs that improve safety for all users.

He's committed to filling the gaps in the Second Avenue protected bike lane, and to adding additional crosstown bike lanes in his district.

PROSPECT - LEFFERTS GARDENS — A «dangerous route» along Flatbush Avenue is in desperate need of a protected bike lane, according to a new petition gaining support from local cyclists.

She is focused on transportation and healthy food access: bringing Select Bus Service to major bus lanes in the district, expediting bus service, bringing Citi Bike and protected bike lanes and expanding green markets.

But it doesn't seem to be because the infrastructure is better; in fact, while things have been improving, the number of well protected bike lanes is relatively low and while they now have a bike share, that's a new thing that didn't make a difference in the 2012 census.

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

Manuel Calvo had spent years in Sevilla bicycling activism and was working as a sustainability consultant when he landed the contract to plan a protected bike lane network for his city.

«As recently as nine years ago, not a single protected bike lane existed in downtown Vancouver.

DOT plans to add protected bike lanes on 26th Street and 29th Street in Manhattan, with other crosstown routes in the works for Midtown.

But in August, the city's newest protected bike lane, on Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia, became immediately controversial.

Update: A street in Oakland recently underwent a road diet: two of five lanes were converted into protected 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.

Perhaps in the Manhattan CBD it makes sense to prohibit sidewalk cycling, but not on the nearly empty sidewalks in the outer boroughs which could do double duty as protected bike lanes.

In 2014, the city council narrowly approved plans to create a 4 - mile network of protected bike lanes on four downtown streets all at once.

David Meyer shares news of a new Streetfilms offering that explores the newly opened protected bike lane on 111th Street in Queens.

Protected Bike Lanes — The number of bike lanes where riders are physically separated from motor vehicles has skyrocketed in the US since Lanes — The number of bike lanes where riders are physically separated from motor vehicles has skyrocketed in the US since lanes where riders are physically separated from motor vehicles has skyrocketed in the US since 2009.

Numerous studies document that protected bike lanes increase the rate of bicycling by an average of 75 percent, reduce bicycle and pedestrian injuries, relieve stress on the streets for drivers and spur economic growth in the neighborhoods where they are constructed.

But they went from 0.6 percent of trips by bike to almost seven percent in three years by building a connected grid of 100 miles of protected bike lanes.»

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.

Chicago alone has built 32 projects, and protected bike lanes are also appearing in suburbs like Hillsboro, Oregon, which features three routes, and smaller communities like Springdale, Arkansas, with two.

Even when you are biking in a nice, wide, partly protected bike lane you are breathing in the exhaust from all those cars while you pedal — and it doesn't smell like roses.

When protected bike lanes are installed in New York City, injury crashes for all road users (drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) typically drop by 40 percent and by more than 50 percent in some locations.

The average protected bike lane sees bike counts increase 75 percent in its first year alone.

As cities work to address decades - long issues of equity in street design (low - income people in particular have a disproportionate risk of death or injury caused by traffic crashes), effective bike share station placement and planning can help close the gap by increasing pedestrian visibility at intersections, providing pedestrian refuge areas, protecting bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and extending the reach of transit.

New York City's protected bike lane on 9th Avenue led to a 56 percent reduction in injuries to all street users, including a 57 percent reduction in injuries to people on bikes and a 29 percent reduction in injuries to people walking, as well as an 84 percent reduction in sidewalk riding.

Only three percent of cyclists didn't use the protected lane, compared to before it was installed, when 12 percent of riders rode in the street instead of in the bike lane.

In Seville, an 80 - mile network of protected bike lanes boosted biking from 0.6 percent to 7 percent of trips in six yearIn Seville, an 80 - mile network of protected bike lanes boosted biking from 0.6 percent to 7 percent of trips in six yearin six years.

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

Where protected lanes were installed in New York and Washington D.C., the number of bikes on sidewalks immediately fell by an average of 56 percent.

US Census - NYC and DC, protected lane pioneers, just doubled biking rates in 4 years

38 percent of people biking on Sherbourne Street in Toronto switched to biking for that trip after Sherbourne got a protected bike lane.

In the two U.S. cities that first started building modern protected bike lanes, New York and Washington D.C., bike commuting doubled from 2008 to 2013.

People were also 2.5 times more likely to bike on the protected lanes than in general travel lanes.

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.

After the construction of a protected bike lane on 9th Avenue, local businesses saw a 49 percent increase in retail sales.

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

The initiative also aims to grow ridership among women, whom studies have shown are more likely to ride in safer traffic environments with features like protected bike lanes and one - way streets.

i miss biking in warm and sunny LA, although I am also loving the protected bike lanes here in Denmark.

In a collaboration with the city, Massachusetts Institute of Technology installed one of the country's first protected bike lanes on its campus in 200In a collaboration with the city, Massachusetts Institute of Technology installed one of the country's first protected bike lanes on its campus in 200in 2004.

Last week I wrote that California was already recommending protected bike lanes, rather than painted ones, in 1972.