Sentences with phrase «with bike lanes on»

Not exact matches

Luckily, with the city's investment in bike lanes and mapped - out routes, I feel that I can easily take my kids on a ride.

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.

But Golden, who spoke exclusively with NY1 on Tuesday, said they drove into the bike lane to avoid blocking the box, and that he never pretended to be a police officer.

The borough president also said residents are frustrated with the city's top - down approach on bike lanes.

Following the installation of bike lanes on Columbus Avenue in my district, my office, in collaboration with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, conducted a study on their use and suggested potential improvements.

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.

State Assemblymember Deborah Glick came by to cast her votes and to update the Club on the work she had been doing with Transportation Alternatives to redesign Fifth and Sixth Avenues, providing bike lanes and improvements to benefit pedestrians and slow traffic.

Brooklyn state Sen. Marty Golden's bike lane of trouble is widening to freeway proportions — with transportation activists and political opponents calling on City Hall to yank his parking placard...

«This ceaseless commitment will continue this year with a community - supported bus lane, pedestrian refuge islands and a protected bike path on First Avenue straight through East Harlem, and we will continue to push for speed cameras to make our streets and our schoolchildren even safer,» he said.

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.

This sounds a lot like how I feel when I make the mistake of taking Broadway to get downtown, and for 5 blocks on either side of Times Square I inevitably find myself inundated with hoards of tourists walking in the bike lane and in the streets and crossing the street without looking — I practically bounce around off of them too.

Whether you spent a few hundred or a few thousand dollars on your bike, whether you use it to commute to work or to cycle around the block with your kids, it's important to understand the rules of the bike lane and protect your financial investment with the proper insurance.

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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.

In addition, a strong majority of pedestrians feel their experience walking on Bloor Street with bike lanes installed is about the same or better than it was previously.

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.

Where I live, they can barely scratch up the money and political will to paint in a bike lane; every one is a battle with storekeepers over parking, with suburbanites calling it a «war on the car».

And here's a key point mentioned by the Cyclelicious blog: Those reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improvements to cyclist health far outweigh the risks from increased exposure to traffic and traffic's polluting byproducts.Researchers compared a car's occupants tootling around Barcelona's beautiful paseos with a cyclist traversing the bike lanes on the highly successful Bicing bike share.

«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.

High season for cycling is here, along with more riders on city streets than ever before, due to more bike lanes and an acceptance of bicycles as legitimate transportation.

Brooklyn Community Board 6 endorsed the DOT plan for protected bike lanes on Fourth Avenue last night, with a nearly unanimous vote.

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

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

And businesses with directions on their website should include nearest bike racks and bike lanes and walking directions from the nearest transit stations.

One of the most dramatic changes the Queens Activist Committee has wrought, seen by every person coming into Queens: a protected, safe approach to and from the Queensboro Bridge, with off - street, greenway - style bike lanes on Queens Plaza North and traffic calming at Columbus Triangle.

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.

That project will coincide with the city's installation of protected bike lanes on Delancey.

On Salt Lake City's Broadway, replacing parking with protected bike lanes increased retail sales.

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.

«Not only is building better bike lanes and supporting them with long - term community engagement essential for safety, it's also an important step on the path to a more equitable bike infrastructure,» said Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Coalition.

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

I remember reading somewhere that on 9th Avenue where the new separated bike lane was installed, bicycle use has doubled, pedestrian injuries have been halved, vehicle crashes are down, and cyclist compliance with traffic laws is higher, all without creating more traffic congestion.

There's no way we can keep spending so much on bike lanes with so many other pressing needs in San Francisco.

While the details have yet to be finalized, city council plans on replacing automobile transportation in the city centre with alternatives that include 60 kilometres of new bike lanes, a new subsidy for the purchasing of e-bikes and a significant expansion of its already - robust public transit system.

I can accelerate, brake, and corner with aplomb, even on the vile snowpack / sheet ice mix the plows leave in the bike lanes.

With the success of pilot projects such as the cycle tracks of Richmond & Adelaide, the contra - flow lane on Shaw Street, the Bloor Street bike lanes; the popular Bike Share program run by the City through the Toronto Parking Authority and with the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good haWith the success of pilot projects such as the cycle tracks of Richmond & Adelaide, the contra - flow lane on Shaw Street, the Bloor Street bike lanes; the popular Bike Share program run by the City through the Toronto Parking Authority and with the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good hawith the success of organizations such as Cycle Toronto, Bike Sauce, Bike Pirates, Bike Chain and Charlie's Freewheels, CBN can finally go to rest knowing that cycling advocacy and services are in good hands.

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.

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.

Those of us who try to ride bikes in the winter often wonder why cars get their own big right - of - way, transit riders get expensive underground subways, pedestrians get an elaborate network of underground walkways, and we, if lucky, get a white line on pavement marking a so - called bike lane filled with snow or cars.

(big PDF here on BlogTO) The results were impressive, with a 300 % increase in cyclists on the street after the painted bike lanes were replaced with separated lanes.

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.

Scores of bicycle enthusiasts, pedicab drivers, rollerbladers and parents with jogging strollers were in motion on the newly designated 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.

The Globe and Mail reports that «scores of bicycle enthusiasts, pedicab drivers, rollerbladers and parents with jogging strollers were in motion on the newly designated bike lane.»

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.

I was in Berlin last year and found that public transportation could take you anywhere, and that when you were on a bike you were treated with care and respect by the drivers, even when there were no bike lanes.

It's in advance of a vote on Tuesday about transforming Toronto's main drag, Yonge Street, from six lanes to four with improved sidewalks and bike lanes; as noted earlier on TreeHugger, this is something that the suburban car - loving Rob Ford constituency can not abide.

It is a lovely vision, shown in the rendering above, with the roadway turned into grass and bike lanes, and trees planted on the Westminster Bridge; There is no question that it is much improved over the same view today on Google: