Urban Cycling Developments

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Complete with Sweet Merge Lane

Read More: http://bikepgh.org/2015/11/18/penn-a...ready-to-ride/

Have you had a chance to ride the two block extension of the Penn Avenue bike lane in Downtown? It ends in a great new “merge lane” that smoothly shepherds people riding their bike in the direction of Point State Park into a the traffic lane marked with sharrows proceeding in that direction.

Big thanks to the City – especially the Planning and Public Works departments – for designing and putting in this great lane. We’re fans of this configuration because it’s straightforward and really well marked. So, what do you think of the new design? The City has tried something relatively new with this one, so leave a comment with your thoughts once you’ve had a chance to ride it.

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Of Course Copenhagen Is Building a Bike Lane in the Sky

Read More: http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/1...he-sky/417024/

Denmark loves bike lanes so much, they’re building one on top of a skyscraper. Copenhagen Gate is a spectacular plan to link disparate parts of the Danish capital’s regenerating harbor, using a suspension bridge designed especially for cyclists and pedestrians.

- It’s the bridge’s supports that make it groundbreaking. The span will hang between a pair of mixed residential and office towers located on opposite piers at the harbor mouth. Designed along with the towers by American architect Steven Holl, the bridge will cross between the towers not at water level, but at a height of 65 meters (213 feet). This elevation will provide spectacular views of the city and create a new visual gateway to Copenhagen for passengers arriving at the city’s cruise ship terminal. After winning a competition 2008, Holl’s twin towers and bridge are finally due to start construction in 2016.

- To use the bridge, cyclists will need to pack their bikes into elevators on either side. That’s surely going to be a time-consuming, unwieldy process that, after the initial wow factor is over, might encourage riders just to pedal round the harbor at ground level. And even when the harbor is fully rebuilt, this peripheral site in its northern section will never be one of the most vital links in the city. There is nonetheless a practical underpinning to the bridge plan. Copenhagen laws require new housing to be within 500 meters of a transit stop. The pier where the southern tower is located lies beyond this limit. Spanning the harbor basin will bring residents of the new tower closer to bus stops and to the upcoming new Nordhavn metro station.

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Bike Commuting: Why the U.S. is Far Behind Other Nations

Read More: http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/11/...ehind-nations/

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Cities like Copenhagen, Barcelona, Paris and Rome all have major cycling infrastructure, and their ridership figures have increased accordingly. About 40 percent of Germans and Swedes bike to work at least once a week, almost four times the amount of Americans who do so. As of 2013, just 1.21 percent of New Yorkers commuted to work by bicycle, despite the creation of new bike paths.

- In Europe, there has been a seismic shift in how people view the act of riding a bicycle. Residents of bike-friendly cities like Copenhagen and Barcelona see a bicycle not only as an instrument for recreation, but also – and crucially, more commonly – as a valid form of transportation. It’s not at all unusual to see businessmen in three-piece suits and women in skirts and ballet flats riding their bikes to work. They arrive looking presentable because they pedal at a reasonable pace and ride bikes designed for comfort rather than racing.

- In contrast, most Americans see cycling as a purely recreational activity, a sport taken up by weekend warriors and triathletes looking for a new fitness goal. Even in locations where cycling is common, riders tend to be students, and the image of cycling in these locations is dominated by photos of racing bikes carrying surfboards and backpacks full of sporting gear. Because most Americans view cycling as recreation rather than as an appropriate mode of transit, there has also been a backlash against building new bike lines in some large cities.

- In addition to the need for many more bike lanes to encourage commuters to give up their cars and use two wheels instead, the U.S. still has a lot of work to do on promoting a culture of commuting that recognizes bicycles as vehicles rather than toys. To cut down on speeding bicycle messengers and those who would put pedestrians at risk, bike lanes can include traffic lights timed to cyclists’ average safe speed. This works well in Copenhagen, where cyclists are as regulated as motorists. It’s also important to recognize that bike lanes aren’t the only infrastructure required to make commuting doable for many people. Businesses and communities need to invest in places to store bicycles safely and conveniently, too.

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Revealed: Ambitious plans for new £88m bridge across the River Thames

Read More: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3122241.html

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The new crossing, deemed “vital” by backers, would link the rapidly expanding Canary Wharf and Isle of Dogs areas north of the river to Rotherhithe on the south bank. Designers say the project, which would cost almost £90m to complete, would be “unique in the world” and help reinforce London’s status as a tech hub.

- The need for a Thames crossing in east London is well-documented. The area is currently primarily served by the Rotherhithe tunnel and ferry crossings, as well as the Emirates Cable Car from North Greenwich to the ExCel Centre in Newham. --- Caroline Pidgeon, the Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate who is deputy chair of the London Assembly’s Transport Committee, has said: “I strongly support a pedestrian and cycling bridge linking Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf as proposed by Sustrans. A safe crossing for cyclists is desperately needed.”

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i checked out the new randall's island connector just after it opened. it connects randall's island with the port morris neighborhood in the southeast bronx.

more:
http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/word...to-the-island/



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nypost printing & hellgate bridge in the distance
















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police academy facility i believe & hellgate












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moon over the south bronx

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Retirees Get Back on Their Bikes
Some people ride for the health benefits. Others do it to feel young again.


William Backes returned to cycling after more than three decades—and has lost 25 pounds.

By LAURA JOHANNES
Updated Nov. 29, 2015 10:04 p.m. ET
Wall Street Journal

"At 17, William Backes, new driver’s license in hand, put away his beloved 10-speed Raleigh Record Ace. Now, 33 years later, he’s back on two wheels, riding a sleek new bike four or five days a week.

“Once I bought a new bike, I discovered how much I used to love riding,” says Mr. Backes, who regularly pedals past the same abandoned gas station he used to pass in high school. Inspired by a friend who rode a bicycle to get in shape after a heart attack, the Denville, N.J., car salesman has lost 25 pounds from his 6-foot-2-inch frame.

More older people are taking up biking, often after decades away from a sport they once loved. In a recent poll, some 20% of people age 50 and older say they’ve ridden a bike in the past year, up from 16% in 2011, according to AARP..."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/retirees...kes-1448852636

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NY1 Exclusive: First Look at Second Ave. Redesign Plans

By Michael Scotto
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 10:33 AM EST


With most of the above-ground construction of the Second Avenue subway wrapping up soon, the city is planning a major overhaul of the busy Upper East Side corridor. NY1's Michael Scotto filed the following report.

If you've been on Second Avenue recently, you know it's a mess. But now the city's Department of Transportation is preparing to clean it up.

"It's a vibrant street - a lot of restaurants, a lot of retail - it's really kind of a front door for the community," said DOT Deputy Commissioner Ryan Russo.

The plans will be unveiled at a community board meeting Wednesday. They call for a protected bike lane, one parking lane, three travel lanes, and a lane for buses - all stretching from 105th to 68th streets.

The redesign will essentially be a continuation of what Second Avenue looks like now above 105th Street.

That part of Second Avenue has already been reconfigured, making it look similar to other redesigned avenues across Manhattan.

Transportation officials insist those redesigns have made the streets safer.

"We've seen a 20 percent reduction on average in injuries to all street users - that's people inside motor vehicles, walking, biking cumulatively," Russo said.

That said, there have been complaints, too.

Some residents fumed that the redesign of First Avenue took away parking spaces and created a hazard when bicyclists began riding in both directions in their new dedicated lane.

City Councilman Ben Kallos says residents might be pleasantly surprised by the changes to Second Avenue.

"We haven't had parking on Second Avenue for quite some time, so having any parking back should be a good thing for drivers and riders alike. People will no longer be going the wrong way on the First Avenue bike lane because they will have a bike lane to go downtown," Kallos said.

The meeting is expected to bring out passionate voices from both sides of the debate.

Transportation officials hope to have the redesign complete by late summer.


video:
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/new...-redesign.html

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Germany Building Bicycle-Only Highway That Will Link Ten Cities

Read More: http://www.core77.com/posts/45048/Ge...ink-Ten-Cities

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The country is launching a 100-kilometer (62-mile) fully-paved roadway dedicated entirely to bikes, no cars allowed. This "bicycle Autobahn," as Phys.org is calling it, will be located in the densest part of Germany. The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area has a population exceeding 12 million people spread over nearly a dozen cities, and thus this super bike lane will connect ten cities and four universities.

- For now the bikeway has been kicked off with a 5-kilometer stretch that's 4 meters (13 feet) wide, as the rest of the path is projected to be; in order to complete the remaining 95 kilometers, financing is required. At €180 million (USD $197 million) the bikeway isn't cheap, and the question of whom will pay for it must be negotiated. So far the RVR is off to a good start: --- While they paid for 20% of the initial run, they got the local state government to pay for 30% and the EU to pick up the rest. With any luck, the ADFC will soon get their wish of seeing MAMILs and non-MAMILs alike all pedaling to work. It's not really called the "bicycle Autobahn," by the way; the cycleway's official name is the RS1 or Radschnellweg, which I believe translates to something like "Fast cycleway."

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A Walkable, Bikeable Future? Hartford Has It

Read More: http://blog.tstc.org/2016/01/22/a-wa...rtford-has-it/

PDF Report: http://www.hartford.gov/images/Plann..._2016.1.19.pdf

Earlier this month, Hartford unanimously approved its first major zoning overhaul since 1969. The initiative, known as ZoneHartford, has been in the works for two years, and its formal ZoneHartfordadoption marks a shift in the city’s priorities toward more walkable, bike-friendly neighborhoods.

ZoneHartford emphasizes form-based code to preserve neighborhood character and includes best practices for complete streets. These practices, including required pedestrian refuges for longer crossings and curb extensions on busier streets, are designed to encourage walking within Hartford while improving driver visibility and pedestrian safety. --- ZoneHartford also reduces parking minimums for new developments downtown or near transit hubs, while expanding bike parking minimums. Developments near transit stops will be allowed more flexibility in exchange for greater density.

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Europe's most liveable city? The secret of Odense's post-industrial revolution

Read More: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...ch-hub-cycling

The huge, wooden scale model of Odense, inside a temporary information centre opposite the town hall, looks initially like a replica of the Danish city. But give them a few minutes and a local would begin to spot some differences, especially to the main traffic route bisecting the urban centre.

- Thomas B Thriges Street was built in the 1960s as a solution to growing car congestion: a fast-moving, four-lane road laid like a curved ribbon across the middle of the city. That ribbon was first trimmed 18 months ago when a central section of the street was closed to vehicles. More is to come in the next few years, as the rest of the road is transformed into a new heart for Odense, reserved for bikes and pedestrians, and lined with shops, cafes and homes.

- It is the centrepiece of a hugely ambitious, and initially controversial, near-£3bn makeover for Denmark’s third-biggest city, which is attempting to revive itself from slightly struggling post-industrial area to a hi-tech hub for education and industry. And at the centre of this transformation is the thing Odense boasts it does as well as anywhere in Europe: liveability. --- “We try to think about people living here all their life, and having a good life here,” says Anker Boye, the city’s veteran mayor, a house painter turned professional politician. “The investors are coming because they know people want to live in Odense.”

- While Copenhagen has long been the place of pilgrimage for foreigners with a yearning to experience Denmark’s famously pro-bike culture, Odense quietly but firmly stresses its national primacy on two-wheeled transport. Following decades of work to build infrastructure and embed a cycling culture, the statistics are astonishing. Odense, a city of just under 200,000 people, has almost 350 miles of bike lanes and 123 cyclist-only bridges. --- Most impressive is the inclusivity of cycling, with 81% of children riding to school and training programmes in place to get even two-year-old kindergarten entrants to trundle to and from home on a balance bike.

- Odense was formerly one of Denmark’s industrial centres, especially for shipping, building huge container vessels for the Maersk group until 2012. Its hoped-for economic future is based heavily around reshaping the centre to reflect the new purpose. An old harbour is being rebuilt with offices and homes, as well as a cultural centre, all linked to the centre by a just-finished, sweep-curved cycle bridge. --- Meanwhile Thomas B Thriges street – named, inevitably, after a famous local industrialist – will in its rebuilt form host not just bikes and pedestrians but also a new tramline, linking to the city’s university and hospital. Cars can approach the city centre via ringroads but will be channelled to park-and-ride systems or new underground parking.

- A key element is thus promotion and encouragement, especially with younger people. Foreign students who come to study at one university in Odense receive a bike with their university room. Machines from the municipal bike-hire scheme need to be unlocked using a mobile phone code, but then cost nothing to use. One intrepid city employee dresses in a head-to-toe cuddly duck outfit and, in the guise of a character named Cycling Anton, rides between kindergartens to spread the two-wheeled message via stickers and hugs.

- The result is clear in Odense’s post-school mini rush hour. While many children do cycle with their parents, a number of others, even of primary age, ride alone or with similar-sized siblings. The official policy is that routes to schools should be sufficiently safe for those aged six or older to cycle alone if the family chooses. --- Klaus Bondam, who heads the Copenhagen-based Cyklistforbundet, or Danish cyclists’ union, admits Odense has the lead over his city on this: “In many places in Copenhagen we do have a cycling environment, but you don’t feel safe sending a kid out to cycle. Odense are doing good.”

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A new car-free bridge in Odense, where 50% of all central trips are made by bike. Photograph: Thomas D Mørkeberg







Cyclists and pedestrians on Vestergade, one of Odense’s main streets. Photograph: Thomas D Mørkeberg

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PHILADELPHIA’S NEW MAYOR PLEDGES 30 MILES OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES IN FIVE YEARS

Read More: http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/e...nes-in-five-ye

Website: http://bicyclecoalition.org/our-camp....fmxnf4o6.dpbs

The bike-friendliest big city on the Eastern Seabord has been falling a bit behind the times, but it's lined up for an upgrade. Philadelphia has come a long way on the network of conventional bike lanes that it started striping in 1995. With about 2 percent of commutes by bike and a rich biking culture, it's made bike transportation noticeably more common than in peer cities like Boston, New York and (elsewhere in the country) Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Houston.

But over the last few years, a second city — Chicago — has been making a dash for Philadelphia's longtime status as the country's bikingest city of more than 1 million. In 2011, Chicago began rapidly installing one of the country's best-connected networks of buffered and protected bike lanes in its downtown and central neighborhoods. That corresponded to a steady rise in biking, and at last count, Chicago was nipping at Philadelphia's heels in its percentage of commutes by bike. Now, Philadelphia's new mayor has taken a page from Chicago's book. In the run-up to his landslide victory last May, Jim Kenney pledged to build 30 miles of protected bike lanes in the next five years.

That'd be enough to reverse what Kenney had called an "embarrassing" lack of the low-stress infrastructure in Philadelphia, and then some. It'd be more protected bike lane than any city but New York has currently built, enough to once again place Philly clearly among the nation's leaders for comfortable biking streets. Sarah Clark Stuart, executive director at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, said in an interview Tuesday that Kenney "seems very inclined" to follow through. Earlier this month, he announced the creation of the city's first Office of Complete Streets. The new commissioner of that office will be tasked with executing Kenney's campaign pledge to "break down silos and coordinate services amongst departments, such as streets, water, and police."

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Brooklyn-Queens streetcar might spur bike, walk paths

DAN RIVOLI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 02/19/2016 10:33 PM ET

The city may build two new bridges to carry the streetcars over the Gowanus and Newton Creek with bike and walking paths, city officials said.

Pedestrians and bicyclists could see some benefit to Mayor de Blasio’s Brooklyn-Queens Connector waterfront streetcar.

The city may build two new bridges to carry the streetcars over the Gowanus and Newton Creek with bike and walking paths, city officials said Friday.


FORMER NYC TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER 'GRIDLOCK SAM' ON BOARD WITH MAYOR DE BLASIO'S PROPOSED BROOKLYN-QUEENS
Polly Trottenberg speaks at a press conference in New York.


Those bridges — along with at least two depots to hold the streetcars — have been factored into the BQX’s $2.5 billion cost.

Drivers in the area, meanwhile, will lose out on parking spaces, city Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said.

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City Of Houston Releases Draft Of Ambitious Bike Plan

Read More: http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/ar...ous-bike-plan/

Draft: http://houstonbikeplan.org/draft-plan

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Mayor Sylvester Turner calls the draft plan “ambitious but realistic.” He says one of the goals is to create better connections to the Bayou Greenways trails.

- As for the particulars, the plan recommends the city create over 300 miles of what are known as “high comfort” bikeways, by re-striping streets and putting up new signs. In the long term, the city would add over 800 miles of new bike-ways. There are also recommendations to create a policy framework for future bike projects along with educational programs on how to ride safely.

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Toronto’s Saks Fifth Avenue wants to destroy the new Richmond Cycle Track

Read More: http://bikingtoronto.com/blog/2016/0...d-cycle-track/

If you listen to this clip from Metro Morning, you’ll hear that Saks wants to “bump the bikelane out of the way” to “make room for valet parking”. They are talking about the massively successful cycle track on Richmond.

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Cough up, cyclists: Aussie laws 'reaching new lows'

Read More: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/co...211119409.html

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In a week, riders in Sydney and the rest of New South Wales state will be subject to a package of new laws aimed at cutting deaths and the more than 1,000 serious injuries a year among cyclists.

- The penalty for cycling without a helmet more than quadruples to $319, stiffer than many speeding fines for drivers, and riders jumping a red light will get a $425 fine. Adult riders will have to carry identification, or face a $106 penalty from March 2017. Cycling advocates say the crackdown will deter people from saddling up and worsen motorized congestion that’s already grinding down Australia’s biggest cities.

- Tougher rules, which come into force March 1, are needed because on average 11 cyclists die and 1,500 are seriously injured each year in New South Wales, said Bernard Carlon, executive director of the government’s Centre for Road Safety. --- “If one cyclist chooses to now wear a helmet because of the new penalties, we consider that a win for cyclist safety,” Carlon said in an e-mail.

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Cough up, cyclists: Aussie laws 'reaching new lows'

Read More: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/co...211119409.html

Regardless of the merits, I will wager these steep fines will further reduce the rate of bicycling in Australia, just like the original helmet requirements did.

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Norway Will Spend Almost $1 Billion on New Bike Highways

Read More: http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/201...ollars/472059/

Norway has just announced a new tool in its fight against transit emissions: a new network of bike highways. As part of a plan announced last week, the country will spend a massive 8 billion Norwegian Kroner ($923 million) creating 10 broad, two-lane, cross-country bike tracks in and near Norway’s nine largest cities, allowing longer-distance cyclists to travel with a speed and safety hitherto impossible.

- A key component of plans to slash Norway’s transit emissions by half, the bike highway scheme still faces some resistance. Not only is cycling in Norway relatively uncommon by Scandinavian standards, but the new highways will be constructed in a mountainous country that is cold and dark for much of the year. --- First, it’s important to be clear about what’s being planned. In keeping with the emerging European definition of the term “bike highway” (“super cycleway” in Norwegian), these will not be tracks linking far-flung cities across hundreds of miles, at least not at this initial stage.

- What the new paths will do is create bike commuter links between inner cities and outer suburbs, extending the protected cycle network out from urban cores through the commuter belt and into the countryside beyond. These broad, twin-lane tracks will do more than offer protection, per se. They’ll allow cyclists to speed up safely, riding at up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) per hour and thus making longer commutes feasible. If they succeed, they should take pressure off roads and public transit and help to cut Norway’s fossil fuel use.

- Norway’s plan thus won’t lumber the country with pretty but exorbitantly expensive long-distance cycleways that nobody but the odd intrepid tourist would use. It still faces some pretty strong obstacles. While Norway isn’t quite as chilly as you might expect—the Gulf Stream’s warmth keeps the coast largely ice-free year-round—the country’s far-northern location means it still has very short, frigid days for large parts of the year. It’s also very mountainous, and while Norway’s inner cities are typically flattish, hills often rise quite steeply on the urban edge.

- If Norway can clear its roads of snow, it can clear its cycle paths, too, and Norwegians have an outdoorsy culture that carries on all sorts of open-air activities in the cold months. Equally northerly locations such as Oulu, Finland, and Edmonton, Canada, have kept up cyclist numbers in winter through carefully maintained infrastructure, so there’s every chance that the trend could catch on in Norway. --- There’s still the issue of steep gradients. Most tracks will follow the example of Norwegian roads and take the flattest routes possible, but there is a tacit acknowledgement of the issue in the Norwegian transit minister’s suggestion that an electric bike boom may be on the way.

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Grow up, Toronto. It’s time to let street parking go

Read More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle29188632/

Cycling advocates are on the verge of getting something they have dreamed about for years: bike lanes on Bloor. The pilot project on Bloor Street West between Avenue Road and Shaw Street would put protected lanes on a major east-west street in the heart of the city.

- Some motorists seem to consider it their Charter right to pull up right in front of their neighbourhood hardware store to buy a box of screws. Some shop owners consider it a threat to their very existence if customers can’t park more than a few steps away. It’s a reasonable attitude if you live in Cornwall or Gravenhurst. In the increasingly dense and busy centre of Canada’s biggest city, it’s absurd to expect such a Corner Gas way of life.

- Most of the city’s downtown main streets look much as they did in the 1960s: One lane of parking on either side, removed during rush hours; cars, bikes and often streetcars all competing for the the remaining two lanes. It is an old-fashioned and often dangerous arrangement. Cyclists are often sent sprawling when the occupant of a stopped car “doors” them – opens the door without looking to see if a bike is coming. Streetcars with 100 or more people on board have to grind to a halt because one driver decides to parallel park right in front of them.

- Most of Toronto’s main downtown streets – like Queen, Dundas or Bay – are just four lanes wide. Unlike most cities of comparable size, Toronto doesn’t have many broad boulevards in its core. With space so limited, filling the curb lanes with a line of parked cars through much of the day is hard to justify. Why not charge a lot more for street parking, discouraging drivers from cruising endlessly in a search for that ideal spot on the street, slowing traffic as they look? Why not build a few more parking lots just off the main streets?

- Surveys on Bloor have found that the vast majority of shoppers already arrive by transit, on foot or by bike anyway. So taking out a few dozen parking spaces shouldn’t cripple commerce there. Merchants are beginning to understand that, which may explain why the resistance to the new bike lanes has been muted so far. Studies on some New York streets showed that stores actually got more visitors after the city put in bike lanes. Parking in downtown Toronto is too cheap and too plentiful, both on street and off. Absurdly, in a city that aims to encourage transit use, city hall requires developers to provide a certain number of parking spaces in new buildings.

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Montreal police want drunk cycling law added to Quebec's Highway Safety Code

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/m...-law-1.3550824

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Insp. André Durocher with the Montreal police's road security and traffic division said there were no specific bylaws regarding drunk cycling.

- Durocher said the increasing number of cyclists was "very good news in Montreal," but all the more reason why police needed provisions in the Highway Safety Code allowing them to intervene. --- "We had a case in 2013 where the person who got killed had a beer in his hand [while] riding a bicycle," Durocher told CBC's Homerun. "To us it's a major concern."

- Durocher said a law would also allow for more accurate statistics to be collected on drunk cycling. --- "We tell people to wear a bike helmet and to respect all sorts of things and on one hand we're telling them 'well ride your bike while you're drunk' and that's fine? That's a bit contradictory," Durocher said. --- He added that police were not asking for drunk cycling to be made criminal. The details of the law were for legislators to decide, he said.

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Worst things about bicyclists in New York City

By amNY Staff May 9, 2016

Unless you ride a bike to work every day, chances are you've been on the receiving end of some unfavorable behavior from a cyclist in New York City.

Whether they're blowing traffic lights, speeding through the park or riding on the sidewalk, we've got some gripes about cyclists that need to be aired.

Here are our least favorite things about bicyclists in New York City.


more:
http://www.amny.com/transit/worst-th...ity-1.11778436