Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network
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There are now nearly 16 miles of protected bike lanes in Washington, DC.
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Atlanta Looks for Options Where Bidirectional Protected Bike Lanes Intersect
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. Bidirectional protected bike lanes, which put both directions of bike traffic on the same side of a street, aren’t ideal. But they can be useful in a pinch. Like all protected bike lanes, well-designed bidirectionals are […]
Milwaukee Bike Lane Overhaul Includes Some Concrete Protection
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Note: Keating Law Offices, P.C. has generously agreed to sponsor two Streetsblog Chicago posts about bicycle safety topics per month. The firm’s support will help make Streetsblog Chicago a sustainable project. Chicago’s busiest cycling street is receiving some safety improvements, including a segment of bike lanes with concrete protection. Milwaukee Avenue, nicknamed “The Hipster Highway” […]
Avoid Bikelash By Building More Bike Lanes
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Here’s one reason the modern biking boom is great for everyone: more bicycle trips mean fewer car trips, which can mean less congestion for people in cars and buses. But there’s a […]
CDOT Tries Out a New Kind of Bikeway on Lincoln Avenue: “Barrows”
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The Chicago Department of Transportation has a toolbox of different bikeway treatments: neighborhood greenways, protected bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, and shared lane markings, also known as “sharrows.” Now they’re experimenting with a new kind of treatment that consists of sharrows — bike symbols with chevrons — with a striped buffer painted on the right. […]
Vote to Decide the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2014
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If you’re searching for reasons to feel positive about the future, the street transformations pictured below are a good start. Earlier this month we asked readers to send in their nominations for the best American street redesigns of 2014. These five are the finalists selected by Streetsblog staff. They include new car-free zones, substantial sidewalk […]
Pittsburgh Business Leaders See Bikeways as Cure for Road-Space Shortage
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Downtown Pittsburgh has a perfectly good reason to be running out of room for more cars: Its streets have been there since 1784. “In Pittsburgh, we have too many cars chasing too […]
Eyes on the Street: Twitter User Calls Attention to Drivers Blocking Bike Lane
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Because the alley was inconvenient for you #enforce940060 @Chicago_Police @ChicagoMayor @Fioretti2ndWard @ChicagoDOT pic.twitter.com/GxMsu928VH — Reid Wilkening (@rwilkening) August 5, 2014 Twitter user @CJettR has started a campaign to focus the attention of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department on clearing illegally parked and standing vehicles from bike lanes. Using the hashtag #enforce940060, Clement […]
Eyes on the Street: Police Blocking Bike Lanes, Sidewalks
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Over the past few months, I have witnessed several instances of the Chicago Police Department violating the laws they are entrusted to enforce — namely, those laws that keep bike lanes and sidewalks clear from obstructions like automobiles. In none of these instances were public safety emergencies apparent within the immediate area, nor were any […]
You Can Now Bring Street Transformations to Life With Google Street View
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If you ever want to show someone that it’s possible to change streets and cities for the better, Google Street View can now help you do it. Google recently made it possible to view archived Street View images. This means it’s easier than ever to show what streets looked like before and after a redesign. […]
Bike Lanes Don’t Lead to Congestion, But Some of Them Should
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Gretchen Johnson and Aaron Johnson have posted a nice debunking of typical “war on cars” rhetoric over at fivethirtyeight. Johnson and Johnson gathered before-and-after traffic data from 45 miles of streets where Minneapolis installed bike lanes. They also looked at how Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West bike lane affected traffic conditions. They found, in short, that […]