Sentences with phrase «safe bicycle lanes»

Especially in cities with heavily - trafficked bike routes, failing to provide safe bicycle lanes could potentially lead to liability for the city.

Not exact matches

Despite the urgency of building a safe replacement, local politicians impeded the project — not just for years, but for decades — fighting over ancillary concerns such as its visual aesthetics and whether the bridge should include bicycle lanes.

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.

There are designated bicycle lanes and I felt safe riding on the streets.

We need to provide safe lanes for Bicycles users.

On my first ride, as I rode in an exceptionally wide bicycle lane while sipping iced coffee before entering one of many bicycle roundabouts on the UC Davis campus, it was immediately apparent why close to 25 % of people in Davis choose to commute by bike and close to 50 % of students choose to arrive at campus by bike: it's safe, it's easy and there's no reason not to.

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For most people, safe parking spaces to avoid the bike from being stolen, and safer bike lanes were the main persuaders to use their own bicycle.

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.

The feature would take into account actual bicycle lanes from the locality being mapped, and it would automatically plan a route for a bicyclist, possibly even providing the cyclist options for either the most direct route, or the most bicycle - friendly (safest) route.

These tips include opening the door on the driver's side by reaching for the handle with the right hand so that the driver is forced to turn and look behind to see if there are any oncoming bicycles, cyclists passing parked cars at a safe distance of a minimum of 3 to 5 feet and avoiding driving or parking in bike lanes.

However, the Dutch CROW bicycle guidelines suggest that one - way cycle tracks are safer than the two way lanes that are developing in Vancouver.