Sentences with phrase «road with bike lanes»

The park's 8 - mile road with bike lanes in both directions leads to views of the Barnegat Lighthouse, on the tip of Long Beach Island.

The issue may be with determining what a «reasonable effort» to use roads with bike lanes would be.

The reduction in collisions may simply be due to less vehicular traffic as drivers avoid roads with bike lanes.

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One route would combine stretches of a bike path along the creek bank with a bicycle lane on Villa Avenue north of the Prairie Path, then hug the west bank of the creek south to Butterfield Road.

Separately, construction also will soon begin along Roosevelt Road, between State Street and Columbus Drive, to widen sidewalks and create a buffer of trees between bike and car lanes, integrating the nearby CTA station with Grant Park, Soldier Field, Northerly Island and the Museum Campus.

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.

«We have gotten incredible support,» says Deborah Schutt, executive director of the Action Association, whose Complete Streets plan gets underway this September with bike lanes up and down Woodward Avenue between 6 Mile Road in Detroit and I - 696, at 10 Mile Road, in the bedroom community of Pleasant Ridge.

Barely wider than a single lane for much of its length and replete with mountain bikes, panniered adventure touring motorcycles and half of Germany's population of wildly understeering, aging Golf Cabrios, the road reinforced the fact that you quickly appreciate exactly where the corners of this (let's face it w - i - d - e) four - door start and finish.

With great new bike lanes in the city and gorgeous open spaces for road and mountain biking, Kristin is happy to call San Francisco home.

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.

My commute was only four miles each way, but half of the route was on a rural road with a 45mph speed limit and a narrow, bumpy bike lane with a steep ditch to one side.

Cycling can be a risky proposition on busy urban streets or rural roads that aren't equipped with a bike lane.

She suggests that you avoid them when possible, which is hard when you are sharing the road with cars, or when the City and homeowners decide that the bike lane is a great place to store them.

So find roads with slower traffic or with bike lanes, preferably fully separated ones.

When riding my bike for transportation (and not for leisure), I seek out bike lanes and routes frequently used by cyclists because drivers who regularly use those routes are accustomed to sharing the road with cyclists.

This looks like a pretty lame report... there is nothing about bike lane statistics... how many of these deaths occurred in locations with separated bike lanes, sharrows, 1 lane roads, 2 lane roads, highways?

One Reason It Makes The Cut A resurgent grassroots bike advocacy effort overcame fervent opposition and helped win approval of a road diet (replacing car lanes with bike lanes) on South Willamette Street, making a direct cycling route to downtown safer.

However, it took me months to realize that it was such a huge number, because there were only ever a few cars driving along the road; the road was a very narrow, two - lane road; and the only sounds that really stood out to me were the clicks of old bikes with warped fenders and the dings from the bike bells of «faster» bicyclists passing slower ones (of course, none of the Dutch bicyclists race down the road, but some casually bike a little faster than others).

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.

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.

Studies show that the best way to keep cyclists safe on the road is to have better bike lanes and related infrastructure, but until those protected bike lanes are built, inventors and researchers are trying to come up with technology that protects cyclists like better, smarter bike helmets and, in this case, an app that warns drivers of nearby cyclists to keep those collisions from happening in the first place.

He states that the city has already applied for federal funding from the clean air program and has combined the bike - lane project with some maintenance construction for nearby roads.

Because bicycling is increasingly becoming a means of commuting for many workers and with the proliferation of bike lanes on city streets, motorists have to exercise more caution when driving and to expect as well as respect bicyclists on the roads.

Since more than 12 miles of roads in the city are equipped with bike lanes, it may not be difficult to choose a path that is paved with these safety lanes.

The addition of hundreds of miles of bike lanes and trails throughout the Chicago area has made the city an inviting place for bicyclists near and far, but many do not appreciate the potential for devastating injuries when sharing the road with motorists.

Interior video footage of the crash, which occurred the night of March 18, shows that the operator of the vehicle, 44 - year - old Rafaela Vasquez, was looking down with her hands away from the wheel when the car struck Elaine Herzberg, a 49 - year - old woman pushing her bike across the otherwise empty seven - lane road.