Sentences with phrase «want bike lanes»

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.@MikeBloomberg, Anglophile who borrowed bus lanes, bike - share & congestion pricing from London, now wants youth hostels in NYC.

But removing cars isn't enough if you don't boost the alternatives, so the city council also wants to build 60 kilometers (37 miles) of bike lanes by 2019, and will provide what it calls a «massive boost» to mass transit.

I don't know if I should be happy or sad that the Egg Farmers of Canada have determined that there are enough cyclists in London, Ontario that they want to pay to advertise to them by painting ads onto bike lanes.

The bike lanes are a tooth - rattling mess full of potholes and delivery trucks, and they let the bikeshare program die for want of $ 80,000 while they can blow $ 100,000 on a whiny advertising campaign.

There were so many trails, signalized bicycle crossings, bike lanes, bollard - protected intersections and lanes that it was sometimes difficult to know where the community was channeling me to go - because it wasn't channeling me, it was allowing me to bike wherever I wanted.

Mayor Rob Ford can complain about bike lanes all he wants but the fact is, when you start hitting numbers like 45 % everyone has to pay attention, these are serious numbers.

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.

So they spent half a million on putting Jarvis Street back to the way it was (with it's dangerous bi-directional center lane) and another $ 2.5 million on these bike lanes, which are not on a major artery where cyclists really wanted to be.

If women do most of the errands, then they want bike paths and lanes that take them where they need to go.

During the debate about removing two suburban bike lanes, Councillor Michelle Berardinetti said «bike lanes are not a good fit for suburbs because we are forced to use our cars here» and «I never want to see bike lanes in Scarborough ever again.»

It was not put here because studies said it was a good place for it, or that it was needed; this is a political expediency, a sop to cyclists after former Mayor Rob Ford and henchman Denzil Minnan - Wong tore out brand new bike lanes on Jarvis Street, a 5 lane urban highway one block west, because it was slowing down drivers wanting to get home for dinner by oh, three minutes.

I gave a good accounting of ideas I thought were important but realize there are a lot of Streetfilms resources for anyone who wants to get better bike lanes in their city that I could pen.

So in the end, if you want fewer cars on the road slowing you down, lower taxes for road maintenance, and reduced health care costs, what you want to do is build more bike lanes, promote cycling, subsidize bike share programmes and stop complaining about cyclists getting a free ride.

You can paddleboard and kayak to work if you don't want to use the damn bike lanes.

«To those who don't want to ride in designated bike lanes, I say, «Go out and change our state law,»» says Geller.