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Have You Heard About That Awesome New Bike-Share Diet?
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This Invention Could Boost Bicyclist Protection Laws
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Philly Bike Share INDEGO Hits 100,000 Ride Mark Faster Than Peer Cities
http://planphilly.com/articles/2015/...nd-next-spring - Indego has around 600 bikes in its system of about 60 stations and only had around 500 during its first month, making the six-figure milestone more impressive. - While a few more stations and bikes will be added in the coming months, the next big expansion of the system is planned for next spring. - Indego is expected to ultimately expand to 180 stations and 1,800 bikes. It hit the 100,000-ride mark just two months after its debut. - In Boston, the Hubway’s six hundred bikes had only been ridden around 75,000 times at the two-month mark. In Washington D.C., Capital Bikeshare only hit 80,000 by this time, despite starting off with 800 bikes. And Denver’s program only reached 100,000 after seven months. |
'Bike Autobahns' Could Be Coming to Munich
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How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world
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but will it record when bikers pass too closely to pedestrians? because that is by far the bigger issue than bikers vs cars. :hell: |
Winston-Salem Building Bike Lanes on an Expressway:
Winston-Salem is building a bicycle commuting route along an expressway that is being rebuilt. The North Carolina Department of Transportation will build it and a community group is finding the money and hiring the designers. According to City Beat newspaper: Building a bicycle commuter path beside an expressway is a relatively novel concept in the United States, but it is common in Europe and Australia. The path must be constructed inside the NCDOT right-of-way. To protect cyclists, the path will be at a different grade from the expressway. They have to open this to pedestrians, however it is being built for cyclists, with the city's cycling community showing-up in large numbers and contacting their councilpersons to move this project forward. It will have tunnels, cycling interchanges, a flyover ramp, and bridges. It will connect the university medical center and multiple neighborhoods to downtown, including the ballpark and IQ District. A group of local residents have formed an organization to hire designers to create custom bridges and they are working on designs for the walls along the ridge cuts, so it should look better than this. I'll show a few examples of the final designs at the end of the post. This is a first of its kind project for the NC DOT. This is how a bicycle commuter lane appears from a driver's point-of-view on an expressway. (See the railing on the right) http://i.imgur.com/zmbORuX.jpg Credit: NC DOT The view from the actual lane. Again, they have to open it to pedestrians, but it's designed for bicycle commuting. http://i.imgur.com/PwiMaVl.jpg Credit: NC DOT This is a bicycle flyover, over an expressway on-ramp, where it intersects with an existing bicycle path at a proposed bridge. http://i.imgur.com/DYNxpJ8.jpg Credit: NC DOT Like I said, those are just rough models. They have hired designers to completely redesign these bridges, the cycling ramps, and highway cut. This is what the finished bridge with bicycle flyover ramp will actually look like. (The Oakland-based designer is calling it a "Land Bridge") http://i.imgur.com/RYGJ0iC.jpg Credit: NC DOT https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hp...94026912_n.jpg Credit: Hood Design Studio / Walter Hood The "Land Bridge" will hide the expressway from cyclists. There is nothing to hide it from those on the flyover ramp though. This is another proposed bike and pedestrian bridge, linking the route to the West Salem Neighborhood and BB&T Ballpark. http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townn...pg?resize=1050 Credit: JournalNow Donald MacDonald Architects Construction on the project is expected to start next year. ...I thought it was an interesting project. |
^ ok, but i wish there was physical seperation between cyclists and pedestrians. looks too narrow to do that though unfortunately.
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Why would there need to be a pedestrian element in the first place? Is there really such a pressing lack of side walks there that pedestrians need a special route running along the freeway? These things are needed for bikes because it's illegal to drive them on the sidewalk in many places, and dangerous or unnerving on many roads.
In other words, the physical separation between the cyclists and the pedestrians could be in form of a sign saying "Cyclists Only; No Pedestrian Access". That being said, I've used many multi-use trails and it hasn't seemed like that big an issue. When there are pedestrians, bikers need to slow down a bit and simply drive around them. And pedestrians need to walk no more than two abreast. The only time I really get annoyed is if there's a group of 4 or 5 people walking side-by-side. |
because pedestrians need to cross highways too and because pedestrians needs > cyclists needs, because of physical danger, especially on narrow crossings, crowded or not, ideally the signs should say 'walk your bikes around pedestrians' because bikers always tend to be dangerous terrorists passing pedestrians and you know it
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I'm talking about the route that runs parallel to the highway which I assume was for an extended distance. I'm not talking about the overpasses which should be short enough that it shouldn't matter much.
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You are correct. They don't have room to widen this. They gained the extra room to double the shoulder width and add this bicycle commuter project through reducing the number of exits. Some of the space used by the former acceleration and deceleration ramps will be used for this project. Walkers and joggers have no real interest in this, but cyclists are saying it will give them equality with cars. It's very clear what it is and who it's for. I'm imagining cyclists traveling at a fast speed with likely two large panniers. And when the grocery store opens along this path, expect cargo bikes, too. It doesn't sound like something pedestrians would want to walk along, when there are nice sidewalks in beautiful historic districts, all-around this project.
I finally have an answer as to why it must allow pedestrians. The eastern end of the project will connect to an existing double-width sidewalk, in an area where they couldn't build a more traditional bike path. In that area, they are "threading-a-needle" under a bridge. They will also use a double-width sidewalk to connect the West Salem Neighborhood to the "oak tree-inspired" bridge, which connects to this project. Double-width sidewalks allow them to separate cyclists from car traffic and still allow pedestrians to use the sidewalk. Very unusual. When this was built in 2013, I remember saying they will have to paint bicycles on this double-width sidewalk and add bicycle route signs on it. As cyclists, we are told not to ride on the sidewalk. This is where the expressway-side bicycle route will connect to an existing double-width multi-use sidewalk: http://i.imgur.com/99np61X.jpg Double-width sidewalk for pedestrians and cyclists. You can see above where a regular width pedestrian-only sidewalk becomes a double-width multi-use sidewalk to connect three multi-use trails together. I'm guessing the double-width sidewalks, to allow for safe cycling, will likely become a bigger topic than a bike route along an expressway. :haha: Quotes from city meetings on this project: Quote:
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good work akron!
Tallmadge Ave. gets bike lane, $1 million available for Akron art ideas: Akron news roundup http://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/...pswe4l17v6.jpg North Hill Better Block The normally torrid six-lane stretch of North Hill's Main Street was narrowed to just two lanes, with widened sidewalks, parking and protected bike lanes on both sides of the street. The city will replicate some of the Better Block modifications in its plan to reconfigure Tallmadge Avenue. (Team Better Block/Tim Fitzwater Photography/) AKRON, Ohio -- Tallmadge Avenue in North Hill is about to get a bike lane makeover. The city is planning to overhaul the thoroughfare between North Main Street and the Ohio 8 freeway, where it intersects with Dayton Avenue. The new street will be reduced from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction, with a turn lane in the center. Bike lanes and improved sidewalks are also part of the overhaul, which is scheduled to begin in July 2017 and finish by May 2018. City Engineer Mike Teodecki called the design a "complete street approach." "Right now you have narrow lanes, people are traveling fast and when they want to turn left and turn right, they are stopping in the street," Teodecki said. "We are getting them a turn lane, so traffic will flow more efficiently, and there are better amenities for pedestrians as well." The city will also replace the current traffic signals with camera-controlled, specially timed signals designed to keep traffic moving more consistently, Teodecki said. |
London Pushes Through Stiff Resistance to Cycle Superhighways
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City looks to more protected bike lanes to deal with traffic
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Falling Behind on Protected Bike Lanes? Blame Canada
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