Sentences with phrase «way protected bike lane»

On a Bixi bike excursion to get some ice cream in Montreal, my wife and I stumbled upon the intersection of Fairmount Avenue and Rue Clark, recently upgraded with colorful new street furniture, traffic calming treatments, and a two - way protected bike lane.

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.

DOT has deferred its plan for a two - way protected bike lane on Clinton Avenue, saying it will return to Brooklyn Community Board 2 next month.

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.

So we made this four - minute video based on visits to three of our first focus cities — Austin, Chicago and Memphis, plus some footage from New York and DC — to give more people a sense of the way protected bike lanes are improving American streets and cities.

I'm going to dig in a bit more on one point — the explosive growth in bicycling on streets with two - way protected bike lanes.

Not exact matches

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

«With nine new Hubway stations and an additional two miles of protected, low - stress bike lanes on the way this year, residents will have a better opportunity to travel by bike throughout Somerville — and beyond.

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.

Kea Wilson interviews author Melody Hoffman about why protected bike lanes aren't always the best way to get people biking and why a more comprehensive, community - based strategy is needed.

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.

While bicycling increased quite a lot on all streets studied where protected bike lanes were added, but it really exploded on two of the streets where two - way bike lanes were added.

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.

Protected bike lanes are the way to go — study after study after study has shown this.

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.