Australia's biggest bike-lane skeptic 'wants to destroy cycling in Sydney'
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House Dems: We Won’t Support a Transpo Bill That Cuts Bike/Ped Funding
I am pretty sure that the reason we have a multi-trillion dollar deficit in unmet infrastructure needs not because we spend one half of one percent of federal transportation money on bicycle and pedestrian enhancements. The reason is that we haven't raised the federal gas tax in nearly 25 years (again, how many of you wouldn't mind getting paid in 1993 dollars?).
There are more than 3,000 annual pedestrian fatalities and more than 700 cyclist fatalities every year in the United States. Instead of cutting this funding, we need to be increasing investments in bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure-- some of the most cost-effective transportation investments we can make. House Dems: We Won’t Support a Transpo Bill That Cuts Bike/Ped Funding http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/09/1...keped-funding/ |
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good, but that would be ped/bike funding, not the other way around. no way should bikes be given priority or more $ for improvements over peds. i wish the fed money to funneled to both would be fully separated. for example, projects like taking out lanes for cars do not automatically mean giving them over to bike lanes when sidewalks might be widened instead on busy streets. vigilance is needed and this a constant tension between all forms of transportation i guess. |
London Is Calling Its New Pedestrian- and Bike-Friendly Zones 'Mini-Hollands'
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Hickenlooper promises $100M to make Colorado "the best state for biking"
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Atlanta Officials Approve Plans For 31 Miles Of Bike Lanes
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Dallas bike lanes moving forward, but not the way everyone wants
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a milestone in nyc per amny:
Exclusive: City to reach 1,000 miles of bike lanes on Tuesday By REBECCA HARSHBARGER September 22, 2015 After an aggressive expansion in recent years, the city will reach a thousand miles of bikes lanes Tuesday when it finishes a new stretch on the Lower East Side, data shows. The city's network will reach that milestone with a two-way bike lane on Clinton Street, between Grand Street and East Broadway. The path runs from Williamsburg Bridge to South Street. The city has added 485 miles of bike lines since 2007, about 80 of which have been built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration. Twelve of those miles are protected on-street bike lanes, while others are off-street lanes like the Hudson River Greenway. Almost 40% of the miles are shielded from traffic, such as through greenways or off-street bike lanes. "With 1,000 miles in the city's bicycle network, we have reached a momentous milestone," said Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg in a statement. The first lane was built back in 1894 on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, according to Deputy Commissioner Ryan Russo. Cyclist-friendly Brooklyn has the most bike lanes, with 311 in its network. It is followed by Manhattan at 241, according to data from the city's transportation department. Queens has 208 miles, and the Bronx 174 miles. On Staten Island, where the MTA has been experimenting with bike racks on buses, there are 75 miles for cyclists. "From Queens Boulevard to Clove Road in West Brighton, Staten Island, the city is getting more innovative as we continue to expand the bicycle network, connecting neighborhoods and communities, and giving thousands of New Yorkers another option to travel to their destination," Trottenberg added in a statement . Going forward, the city Department of Transportation plans to add a protected lane between the Bronx and Randall's Island on Bruckner Boulevard. The agency might add bike lanes on the Harlem River bridges, such as the Willis Avenue and Third Avenue bridges. It recently started construction on a bike lane on the Pulaski Bridge between Long Island City and Greenpoint. The DOT is also looking to place additional bike lanes in upper Manhattan and Long Island City, neighborhoods where Citi Bike recently expanded. It plans to discuss a potential lane next year on Amsterdam Avenue in the Upper West Side with the community board in the fall. Safe street activist and cyclist Charles Komanoff, an organizer for the group Right of Way said the 1000-mile mark is an important marker, but there is still a long way to go. He wants the DOT to show greater resolve when it faces opposition from community boards -- and the NYPD to enforce laws protecting cyclists the bike lanes. "I think the challenges are DOT backbone, and NYPD apathy if not downright hostility," he said. "At some point the buck stops at City Hall." Keegan Stephan, a 31-year-old cyclist who advocates for livable streets, , also said the lack of enforcement makes it difficult to use the lanes -- and that many have worn down and need to be re-striped. Livable streets are considered ones you can walk, bike, drive, and take mass transit on safely. "Enforcement against cars parked in bike lanes is literally a joke," he said. "Just check the #bikenyc hashtag on twitter and you'll see dozens of different users posting pictures of obstructions in bike lanes every day. The most frequent offenders seem to be police officers themselves, who use bike lanes as parking spaces so frequently that there is a highly active twitter account dedicated solely to documenting them -- @CopsInBikeLanes." Citi Bike, the bike-share program that started in 2013, has benefitted significantly from the new lanes -- and recently hit 20 million rides. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, it had its busiest day ever -- reaching 50,780 riders. It's trickier for the city to track the overall number of cyclists than Citi Bike, which uses an electronic system. It counts cyclists on a summer weekday each year at major destinations, such as the Williamsburg Bridge and Hudson River Greenway. The agency counted about a 12.8% increase in cyclists between 2012 and 2014. It is more than a 100% increase from 2007, when the city began aggressively adding lanes. There were about 9, 330 cyclists then. Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, said the increase in miles is a big achievement for the city, but there needs to be more lanes to shield drivers from cars. "The city needs to focus not just on creating more lane miles, but on building the protected bike lanes that communities across the five boroughs are demanding more than ever," he said. http://www.amny.com/transit/new-york...day-1.10873995 |
TTC launches bike repair stations at 10 subway stops
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^ yeah those bike repair stations are a very good idea. i saw them all over minneapolis.
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Bike Commuting: Still on the Rise
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^It's great to see the data. The raw numbers are looking good in the top ten biking cities, the university towns are teaching young people early in life the value and ease of bicycling everywhere, and the growth rates are astounding in many of the Midwestern cities. This does appear to be a long term trend--outside the South, that is, which is conspicuous in its absence from the lists.
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I'm surprised to see Santa Monica missing from the second list of smaller cities. As the leading bike-commuting city in Southern California, its absence from the list is disappointing. It's accurate though. I've seen various sources cite the low 5% range for bike-commuting mode-share for Santa Monica, presumably placing it right below Bloomington which is actually still VERY respectable. Apparently Santa Monica's absence reflects the fact that there are quite a few (mostly small) cities that achieve such high bicycling mode shares.
Another redeeming fact is that Santa Monica achieves its high mode-share without relying on a large college population (it's not a college-town). Many cities on the second list are college-towns with a large share of population stemming from a university, and naturally get a boost. Take the college towns out of the equation and Santa Monica would shoot towards the top. It's also amazing that Portland can hang with them all, big or small, college-town or not. |
What may not be immediately apparent, regarding the college towns in the original post, is what the Census Bureau data is not counting: students bicycling to class. The data in the lists above only concerns people who bicycle to work.
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‘Protected Intersection’ For Bikes Opens In Salt Lake City
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it's going to take a concerted effort to bring about any large increases in bike commuting in atlanta, unfortunately. unlike flat, gridded cities, where easy alternatives to main roads are common, the roads with the least amount of elevation changes are also the main roads for auto traffic, and are also usually fairly narrow (as are most roads in general in atlanta, outside the freeways)
trails, helped by and including the beltline are becoming more common, but there are fights happening right now on whether or not to give major roads (like peachtree) a diet in order to add bike lanes. http://news.wabe.org/post/atlanta-of...les-bike-lanes http://buckheadview.com/2015/09/12/5...-gdot-speaker/ i used to commute by bike to work (on roswell rd in north buckhead/sandy springs) and it was harrowing. |
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http://harahanbridgeproject.com http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/27...on-is-underway "The entire Main to Main project which began earlier this year totals $43 million with $15 million coming from the feds. The rest of the funds are from private donations and other local and state grants." At least the funding formula for the feds is around 33% for the entire project, not at 50% or higher. The locals are pouring much of their own money into it, so Memphis can boast about being bicycle friendly and a haven for bikes. Never-the-less, it's a nice to have project, not a need to have one, in an era of increasing deficit spending and larger busted budgets. If we're not willing to cut "wants", eventually we're going to have to cut "needs". If you're not willing to trim the fat off the federal budget, we're going to have to cut meat all the way down to the bone. I'll admit people can have different viewpoints on what is fat and what is meat. But the idea that no item of the federal budget can ever get cut from time to time needs to go if we are ever going to balance it. |
Interactive - Compare what bike commuting looks like between 12 major cities:
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