L.A. does have a bicycle highway network planned throughout the city.
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Hunter Planners: Expand the Bike Program, Beat the Bikelash
May 16, 2011 By Noah Kazis Read More: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/05/1...-the-bikelash/ Beyond The Backlash PDF: http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-conten...cklash2011.pdf Quote:
A high number of schools in Queens, outer Brooklyn, and Staten Island are inaccessible from existing bike lanes. A Hunter College team recommends linking bike network expansions to a more robust Safe Routes to School program. http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-conten..._map_large.jpg Cyclists in Flushing, Corona, and Elmhurst filled out surveys describing their daily routes. Roosevelt Avenue is widely used to get from one neighborhood to another. http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-conten...survey_map.jpg |
Portland Mayor Sam Adams boosts funding for bike projects, but now there's less for paving streets
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The EU Meets to Discuss How to Promote Cargo Cycling
May 17, 2011 By Tim Quijano Read More: http://thecityfix.com/the-eu-meets-t...cargo-cycling/ Quote:
An Amsterdam family takes the cargo bicycle instead of the minivan. Photo by Marc van Woudenberg. http://thecityfix.com/files/2011/05/family_bike.jpg A vendor in China sells produce from tricycles. Photo by Tim Quijano. http://thecityfix.com/files/2011/05/produce_vendor.jpg A man in Beijing taking garbage to a collection center. Photo by Yang Liping. http://thecityfix.com/files/2011/05/bike_load1.jpg Garbage collecting by cargo cycle in China. Photo by Tim Quijano. http://thecityfix.com/files/2011/05/...collection.jpg |
Toronto City Council is going to be taking off bike lanes on a downtown street that got bike lanes last year. The mayor can't wait to return the Jarvis Street bike lanes back to cars.
So that is the developments here :). One of the councillors said that bikes have no place on streets. They should be in the ravine trails and side streets. |
Park Or Ride: A Bike Lane Divides Brooklyn
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Brooklyn's not divided--the bike lane is actually popular with normal people. It's just the richest and most powerful who don't like it, because they want to continue to use that lane for illegally idling their hubris-powered limousines.
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Muni to allow folding bikes on buses, streetcars
Rachel Gordon San Francisco Chronicle Thursday, May 26, 2011 Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#ixzz1NW4CPbOy Muni, the Bay Area's busiest transit system, has reversed its long-standing policy that barred passengers from bringing bicycles aboard the buses and streetcars. But there's a catch: Only folding bikes will be allowed. The policy shift, while not everything for which bike advocates have lobbied, is nonetheless welcome, they say. "It's going to benefit a lot of people," said Bert Hill, chairman of the San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee. One of those people will be Hill himself. The 63-year-old plans to take his folding bike on the Muni Metro rail system between the Castro Street and West Portal stations to avoid having to pedal up the approximately 650-foot incline over Twin Peaks on his frequent rides between downtown and his home in the Miraloma Park neighborhood on the city's west side. Muni issued a bulletin to its operators Monday informing them of the change and outlining the new rules: Bicycles must be folded and kept with their owners. Also, they cannot be placed on a seat, block a seat, interfere with passenger movement, or get in the way of wheelchairs. Muni buses already are equipped with exterior front racks that can hold two bikes, but until now the two-wheelers weren't allowed inside the vehicles. They still are banned on San Francisco's historic fleet of cable cars. The new policy is another element of the city's transit-first policy, which aims to get people out of their cars to cut down on air pollution and traffic congestion. "It's important to provide cyclists with easy and efficient access to our transit system," said Paul Rose, spokesman for the Municipal Transportation Agency. .... |
[Vancouver] Cycling route photos | May 18th 2011
6th Avenue's brief two block-long cycle track, approaching Cambie Street.
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1...iemay18201.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. Another shot of the Dunsmuir cycle track. http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2...may182011p.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. The intersection of the Dunsmuir and Hornby cycle tracks. http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4...yintersect.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. Some shots of the Cypress bike route, which is an important north-south corridor through Kitsilano. There is quite extensive traffic calming along this route since it is hilly, thus amplifying the risk at intersections if vehicles were to pick up speed and exercise undue care. In this photo the road has been closed off in one direction to motor vehicles with concrete curbing but is still permeable to bicycles. http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/1...2011p12409.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. Roundabouts are lushly landscaped while still ably serving as traffic calming devices. http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6...011p124092.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. This type of traffic calming has one direction of travel yield to oncoming traffic before continuing, however a bicycle shortcut is provided (if not always used) to allow cyclists an unimpeded route through. http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5...ute1may182.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. Cypress crossing Broadway with through traffic blocked except to bicycles. http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1...011p124093.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. Some photos of the intersections of the perennially busy 10th Avenue bike route. This is the intersection of 10th and Arbutus. http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/296...smay182011.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. 10th Avenue at Burrard http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2108/...dmay182011.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. 10th Avenue at Oak Street. http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/533...182011p124.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. 10th Avenue at Ontario http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4870/...omay182011.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. 10th Avenue at Main Street. http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1...y182011p12.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. Carrall Street Greenway as seen from the Dunsmuir Viaduct cycle track. This route was the city's first attempt at a cycle track and it was very expensive, though very well executed. The route itself isn't especially well used yet since there is no bicycle route at the far end in Gastown and it also still travels through a dodgy part of the downtown east side; Vancouver's skid row. However it's complete, first rate, and ready for the neighbourhood to change and the long-desired connection between Gastown and the northern Seawall to be built. http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/2...greenwayma.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 18th 2011. |
Bicycles as a Source of Income in Africa
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City To Set Up First Protected Bike Lane Downtown
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Before Bike-Share Effort Starts, Concerns Are Raised About How It Will Work
June 3, 2011 By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/ny...ions.html?_r=1 Quote:
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I moved the posts about the High Line to a new thread in City Discussions.
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Damn you, Mayor Grey. I miss Gabe.
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[Vancouver] Velopalooza 2011 Tweed Ride | June 12th 2011
We gathered at Second Beach in Stanley Park and then rode the Seawall to the Carrall Street Greenway cycle track and took that into Gastown.
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/2...weedride20.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4...dride2011p.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/7...ide2011pos.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1...ide2011pos.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. We stumbled upon someone who had just wrapped up participating in the Velopalooza 2011 Cargo Ride and was inducted as an honourary member of the Tweed Ride. http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/2...edride2011.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. In Gastown we happened upon celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Great Fire of 1886 which in a few hours destroyed more than 90% of the Granville Townsite, predecessor to modern Vancouver. Today is also the 125th anniversary of the Vancouver Fire Service, which was hastily founded while the conflagration was raging so that it could be put out. The streets were closed and every model of fire engine the city has owned were lined up, including this working steam powered fire engine which was generating the water pressure to shoot the stream of water in the background. Very neat and appropriate, too, for our tweed ride. http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/9...ireenginet.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/6...pphototwee.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, June 12th 2011. Group photo in front of the Steam Clock taken and Photoshopped by the ride organizer. http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6...mclockhand.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by Clark Nikolai, June 12th 2011. Good times were had by all. |
From London to D.C., Bike-Sharing Is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike
June 16, 2011 By Noah Kazis http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-conten...logo-sblog.gif Read More: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/06/1...your-own-bike/ Quote:
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That reminds me of a Bill Bryson history note about the Luxembourgers(?) sending an army to fight in WWI I think. Not only did they not lose anyone during the war, but their army grew by one person, because they made a friend on the way.
Very cool for Copenhagen. I wonder if it's not too much incentive to park at the wrong spot. Of course in the US, there's probably some asinine liability interpretation against touching anyone's stuff other than as necessary to move it. But gotta love those Europeans. |
wow, do that many people really not lock up their bikes?
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