Urban Cycling Developments

[mrnyc]

citibike shitibike —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-amY...EwNmZoeThtbTQ=

[shivtim]

New cycle track on Ferst drive in Atlanta getting closer to completion. This will connect into the existing cycle tracks on Atlantic Drive and Tech Parkway.

[mrnyc]

the long sought greenway path around the united nations will be built and will connect to the new section around the queensboro bridge, but jeebus — $120M yikes.



$120M project to fill East River greenway gap near United Nations moving ahead

By Liam Quigley
Published Aug 23, 2024


New York City officials are finally moving ahead with a decade-old plan to fill a gap on the East River greenway near the United Nations as the latest step in a larger project to create a 32-mile cycling and pedestrian path along Manhattan’s waterfront.

The city Economic Development Commission on Thursday put out a call for contractors to oversee the construction of the esplanade, which will be built on pillars atop the waterway between East 41st and East 53rd streets. The addition will span less than a mile, and preliminary contract documents estimate it will open by the end of 2028 at a cost of $120 million.

Plans to build an esplanade near the UN date back to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.


more:
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-moves...united-nations

[shivtim]

Separated cycle lanes being built on Ralph David Abernathy street in Atlanta, via ATLDOT

[mrnyc]

a protected bike lane thru bed-stuy





PROTECTED BIKE LANES
Wow, The Bedford Avenue Protected Bike Lane Is Really Happening
DOT will begin installing the long-awaited protected bike lane in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the next few weeks, officials said.

By Dave Colon
1:36 PM EDT on September 10, 2024

more:
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/09/...ally-happening


Photo: Dave Colon| Soon, biking on Bedford Avenue will be much safer than this.

[Marshal]

I like to keep things positive, but I have wanted (needed) to scream about this for a long while. As most of us already know, Vancouver has decent cycling infrastructure. But, not all.

Yesterday, I had to drive along the SF Perimeter Road, a highway of four lanes with a concrete divider and and concrete barriers on the outsides past the shoulders. Traffic is heavy and fast, with more semi's than on most routes (it serves industrial areas and Port of Vancouver facilities).

To get this road built they promised all the standard array of public amenities they could think of. One was a cycling route.

Yeah. The freeway ran about 25 miles along the Fraser River on an alignment along which there was nothing before. So we all got excited about the route that we thought would parallel the road but would take advantage of the river shoreline and the numerous forested and farming areas that existed along side the endless industry. Well . . .

NOPE! The bike path would BE the shoulders along the winding freeway. Yesterday I saw 2 guys walking their bikes along a especially grievous section. They are the first cyclists to take on the awful challenge that I have ever seen in the ten years since the road opened.

It is ingenuous at best to bullshit everyone by painting a few symbols on the shoulders and calling it 'ANYTHING!' It can really disappoint to plan a ride with the old municipal cycling map only to ride out and find a major part of the route to be incredibly dangerous and unpleasant . . . impossible to ride. My two brave lycra clad friends looked so incredibly out of place, like they would on any traffic pounding freeway.

Does anyone else know of similar cases in their cities and towns?

[ColDayMan]

I don't know if this has been posted here or not but this seems like a dangerous path to go down...

Ontario to require provincial approval for new municipal bike lanes

The Ontario government says it will introduce legislation that would require municipalities to get provincial approval before building any new bike lanes that reduce lanes of vehicle traffic.

Municipalities would need to demonstrate any proposed bike lanes will not have a "negative impact on vehicle traffic," according to the province.

More below:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...aria-1.7352228

[mrnyc]

surprizzze!
election denying trumpie whines and storms out of greenway planning meeting —




How ‘political war’ broke out at a DOT workshop for a waterfront greenway in Eastern Queens

By Iryna Shkurhan
Posted on October 25, 2024


The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) community planning workshop, aimed at gathering public input on the far eastern segment of the newly proposed 16-mile Queens Waterfront Greenway project, started fairly calmly but ultimately erupted into dissent, leading half of the attendees to leave without giving their formal input.


more:
https://qns.com/2024/10/how-politica...astern-queens/

[Busy Bee]

This is my favorite line from the story:

Her staff also distributed their flyer about the project, which said the greenway threatens parking spaces.

How is progress possible with nitwits like this?