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New Bike Route Would Cross State

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- An official bicycle route crossing the state of Wisconsin could be in the near future for local bike enthusiasts, as the final preparations are being worked out. If a proposal for an official designation is approved, bicyclists will be able to link up with the path at the Milwaukee terminus, where it begins running through Bay View, then on to Walker’s Point, the Menomonee River Valley, West Allis and Waukesha. From there, riders will be able to traverse the state hitting cities like Madison and La Crosse, eventually riding into Winona, MN where they could start onto U.S. Bike Route 45, otherwise known as the Mississippi River Trail.

- The route in Wisconsin will be about 60 to 70 percent trails, says Kerry Irons, an Adventure Cycling volunteer working on the project. Some famous paths and trails that could be folded into the route include the Hank Aaron State Trail, Oak Leaf Trail, New Berlin Recreation Trail, Glacial Drumlin State Trail, 400 State Trail and Elroy-Sparta State Trail. The Wisconsin route, to be known as U.S. Bike Route 30, will be one leg of a national corridor that bicycling advocacy groups are assembling. “The goal is a national network of recognized bike routes that people can use for any length of bike trip – from a day to several days, a week, month or whatever,” says Ginny Sullivan, director of travel initiatives at Adventure Cycling, a Montana non-profit and bicycling advocate.

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What If Bike Paths Looked Like Subway Maps?

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Telegraph Avenue Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Show Stunning Results

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- Less than a year after opening a dramatic redesign of Telegraph Avenue in downtown Oakland, the city is reporting huge benefits from the project. According to the new Oakland DOT’s short Progress Report: Telegraph Avenue Complete Streets, the new parking-protected bike lanes, while flawed, are already producing more-than-promising results. For the first time in five years, says the report, there have been no pedestrian crosswalk collisions reported along the section of the street that was reconfigured.

- The new design reduced the number of travel lanes to one, which horrified many people who thought that would mean traffic would grind to a halt. That hasn’t happened—but speeding has gone down significantly. Median speeds there now match the actual posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour. On the part of Telegraph that was not reconfigured—where there are still two travel lanes in each direction, parking along the curb, no bike lane, and no median—speeds stayed high, with 85 percent of drivers going over the speed limit.

- With only one travel lane, drivers are not searching for opportunities to zoom around each other, and they are forced to drive at the same pace as other vehicles. That means a more reasonable driving speed, which gives them the chance to see pedestrians as soon as they step into the crosswalk. The report notes a few additional trends along the corridor. Bus ridership along Telegraph has decreased somewhat. That may be due to service changes along the corridor, wherein a popular route was split in two shorter routes, and its express service was eliminated.

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San Francisco Takes a Step Back From Raised Bike Lanes

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- The city had planned on installing a two-inch raised, mountable lane on a section of Polk Street, where, on average, cars hit one cyclist and one pedestrian every month. But now it’s scrapped that plan in favor of a more traditional lane, which will be protected with soft-hit posts. The switch comes after San Francisco evaluated its first, experimental raised lane on downtown’s Market Street. The lane proved challenging to some cyclists since it debuted in late 2015; at least two collisions occurred (one resulting in a “major injury”) when people tried to roll up onto the path.

- The main issue was the raised lane just wasn’t keeping cars away, as evident in angry social-media posts about police cars and a delivery truck blocking cyclists’ right of way. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says it believes lanes in these kinds of heavily commercialized corridors should be protected with a line of parked cars, something Oakland recently did, with varying success. But since that’s not possible on Polk, it will have plastic barriers sticking up from a buffer zone.

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How Finland Gets People Biking Through Winter

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- In Oulu, Finland, winter cycling is less of a rallying cry than a fact of life. Careful planning and ongoing improvements to seasonal maintenance have normalized cycling through the snow in Finland’s fifth-largest city. With fewer than seven hours of sunlight a day at this time of year, Oulu is an unlikely leader in winter cycling. --- So what’s the secret to ensuring that people choose to bike regardless of the weather? First, Oulu has an enviable cycling network that extends 613 kilometers to connect a population of 200,000.

- The local government continues to prioritize active transportation, especially when the temperatures drop. Starting in October, Oulu is launching a new level of “super” maintenance for cycling infrastructure during the winter months. Essentially, 15 per cent of the network, or about 150 kilometeres, will be maintained 24 hours a day. The remainder of Oulu’s network is classified for two different levels of snow removal. Class 1 will be cleared after three centimetres of snow and Class 2 will be cleared after five centimetres of snow.

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Over on twitter @urbanthoughts11 is doing a series of amazing tweets with pics/gifs of what the cost of a current motorway project could pay for in bike infra for the same city. Here's a couple of examples:



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Bike Over Traffic: World’s Longest Elevated Cycling Path Opens in China

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- China’s first aerial bike path spans nearly five miles, raised over streets and highways and connecting six public transit hubs in the heart of Xiamen. If the new route is even close to as successful as its designers and planners expect, it could help usher in a new cycle-centric transport paradigm across the country.

- Sixteen feet wide, the bike-and-pedestrian pathway network can accommodate 2,000 or more bicycles per hour. At night, 30,000 lights allow travelers to continue using the paths safely. Its planners anticipate an influx of ridership and have a system in place to actually close down the on ramps if too many bikers are already on the path.

- Some sections of the cycleway are positioned under overhead mass-transit express lanes, offering some shelter from the elements (and less noise than riding alongside). Along the route, riders access the system via a variety of ramps tied into the city bus and subway system, aiming to bridge the gap between various forms of transportation.

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Wichita’s likely first DIY protected lane involves items commonly wielded by plumbers

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City moves forward with plan to rent adaptive bikes as part of Biketown system

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- The City of Portland took another step today toward fulfilling a promise they made last summer: To make the Biketown bike share program more accessible to people who are unable to ride conventional bicycles. If all goes according to plan, adaptive bikes should be available for use by this summer.

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Tax Cyclists for Road Upgrades?

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I talk to a lot of state legislators. At least among majority Republicans, a question I often get is something along the lines of, “why don’t cyclists want to pay for their own bike lanes?” In fact, a couple of years ago one very powerful legislator, Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) who co-chairs the Joint Finance Committee, went so far as to float a budget amendment that would have imposed a $25 “registration fee” on every new adult-sized bike purchase in the state.

- It wasn’t really a registration fee but a special sales tax at point of purchase. We fought that and won, but Nygren is still there and so is the notion that we don’t want to pay our way. My standard response is to argue that most cyclists are also drivers, so we do pay gas taxes and vehicle registration fees that go to fund roads, including bike lanes, paved shoulders and the like. When we ride state trails – and some local ones – we pay for trail passes. And then there’s the savings in wear and tear on the roads, the lessened need for expensive car parking, the reduction in pollutants and green house gas emissions and the personal health benefits that end up saving everybody money in the long run.

- I’ve been searching for a way to break through all this with the idea that if we can just get beyond the notion that cyclists aren’t willing to pony up for their own infrastructure we might be able to advance a broader pro-biking agenda. One idea was voluntary state bike registration. Mirroring an existing Wisconsin program that allows owners of canoes and kayaks to voluntarily register their boats, the thought was that cyclists would want to register their bikes because it would put them in a statewide database. The benefit would be that when a stolen bike was recovered anywhere in the state it would be easily returned to its rightful owner. And, better yet, the revenues beyond the small amount needed to maintain the database could go right back into local bike lanes and other cycling safety projects.

- If the participation rate was similar to that of the voluntary canoe and kayak program it might net well over a million dollars a year that could get plowed back into local bike programs. I liked the idea as did the Bike Fed’s Public Policy Committee. But the bike industry would have opposed it and without their support it would have no chance of passage. Idea dropped. But, folks, there’s more where that came from. So, here’s another bright idea: expanded use of current local registration fee revenues. Current law allows local governments to charge a bike registration fee. Many municipalities do exactly that, but state law is hazy at best about what those fees can be used for. The language of the law and court rulings suggest that use of the fee revenues has to be closely tied to the registration program itself.

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In Swedish, but kinda big:
http://www.bicycling.se/blogs/kriste...30-procent.htm

Cyclists crossing into/out of the Inner City is up 30 % last year over the previous year. Yeah, a 30% increase in one year. 76 000 per day is the new number. We're still way behind Copenhagen, but with continuing investments in bike infra we're heading in the right direction.
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Bold proposal for new bike bridge connecting Miami to Key Biscayne on display at Coral Gables Museum

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- The existing Rickenbacker Causeway has seen four fatal cycling accidents since 2006, spurring many cyclists to push for better bike lanes and barriers to protect them from the high-speed traffic on the bridge. Architect, urban planner, and lifelong cyclist Bernard Zyscovich saw an opportunity to promote cycling as a more viable means of transportation in Miami and launched Plan Z for Miami.

- The nonprofit organization has proposed two separate plans to convert Rickenbacker Causeway, the first of which involves the removal of a lane of traffic from the causeway to create a 16-foot-wide bike and pedestrian lane, separated from the motor traffic by a strip of native foliage. After concerns were raised about the removal of a lane of traffic, Zyscovich returned with Plan Z 2.0. This bolder plan proposes a completely separate bike and pedestrian lane to run the length of the causeway and connect to the proposed Underline, a ten-mile linear park running under Miami’s Metrorail.

- The path would then run along the William Powell Bridge, providing an observation deck for viewing the Miami skyline, then continue on to Virginia Key. Zyscovich’s plan also imagines a 20-acre waterfront park and beach at the entrance of Virginia Key, with a branch of paths connecting to Virginia Key Park, before continuing on to Key Biscayne. The project has already garnered a decent amount of positive attention from the community, according to the architect, and they will continue to show the plans to the public to rally further support while the project is in review for potential funding.

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In Tokyo 14 percent of all trips are done by bike, every single day. Yet Tokyo does not have the cycling infrastructure of an Amsterdam or even Hamburg, which is something most western minds believe to be a necessity for encouraging cycling. Not that wider cycling lanes wouldn't help boost the 14 percent mode share, but Japanese folks in Tokyo have shown they will cycle regardless. If there's no bike lane, they'll just hop on the sidewalk or wherever they feel safe.



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In Tokyo 14 percent of all trips are done by bike, every single day. Yet Tokyo does not have the cycling infrastructure of an Amsterdam or even Hamburg, which is something most western minds believe to be a necessity for encouraging cycling. Not that wider cycling lanes wouldn't help boost the 14 percent mode share, but Japanese folks in Tokyo have shown they will cycle regardless. If there's no bike lane, they'll just hop on the sidewalk or wherever they feel safe.
I have this debate with my buddy who's a cycling advocate in Chicago all the time. The US model is to treat bicycles as vehicles while when I was in Tokyo I noticed that in general bicycles are treated as pedestrians. The bicycles sometimes have their own bike crossing along side pedestrian crosswalks.

His argument is that bikes on the sidewalks is too dangerous for pedestrians but my argument is that bikes in the streets is too dangerous for cyclists. Maybe part of the problem is that in the US we have all these spandex freaks who think they are in the Tour de France all the time.

If you are going fast enough that you would injure a pedestrian in a collision you are going too fast. Plus in Tokyo I learned pretty quick that when I hear that bell I step aside.
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If you are going fast enough that you would injure a pedestrian in a collision you are going too fast.
what? Who the hell made you the king of appropriate bicycling speeds?

anything faster than about 6 mph (2x walking speed) has the potential to injure a pedestrian in a collision, and that's a retardedly slow speed for a bicycle.

i use my bike to get to work everyday. i ride 5 miles to get to my office from home. if i rolled on the sidewalk at 6 mph, that would make for an overall average speed of ~5 mph (traffic lights, stop signs, traffic, etc.), and it would take me 60 minutes to get to work.

back here in the real world, i roll in the streets at 20 mph, for an overall average of ~15 mph, so it takes me around 20 minutes to get to work.

hmmmmm, 60 minutes vs. 20 minutes, that's kind of a big difference for a daily commute.


and 20 mph is way too fucking fast for sidewalks.


also, riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is illegal in the city of chicago for anyone over 12 years of age.
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Bike Lanes Are for Immigrants? A Queens Official’s View Draws Fire

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- The latest meeting of a community board in Queens had barely begun when one member, Ann Pfoser Darby, stood up. --- At a previous meeting, Ms. Pfoser Darby denounced proposed bike lanes as a taxpayer-financed amenity for the undocumented immigrants she claims are their main users. --- Ms. Pfoser Darby has a long history of incendiary remarks, but her bike comments have ignited a local media firestorm and helped inflame an already contentious plan to create the bike lanes as part of a safety redesign of a dangerous stretch of street near Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

- In her decades of public service, Ms. Pfoser Darby, 82, has seen this pocket of Queens change from a largely white enclave to a neighborhood with a mostly foreign-born population of Hispanics and Asians. --- In some places, perhaps, Ms. Pfoser Darby’s insensitive comments would go unchallenged, or even endorsed. But in Queens, one of the most diverse counties in the United States, her views, especially on undocumented immigrants — her preferred term is “illegals” — have earned her a reputation that lies somewhere between outright racism and a territorial aloofness reminiscent of Archie Bunker, the aging bigot of Queens, in the sitcom “All in the Family.”

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Cyclists crossing into/out of the Inner City is up 30 % last year over the previous year. Yeah, a 30% increase in one year. 76 000 per day is the new number. We're still way behind Copenhagen, but with continuing investments in bike infra we're heading in the right direction.
What's the master plan for Norrmalm? Walking in that neighborhood is fantastic, but cycling was brutal when I was there.
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What's the master plan for Norrmalm? Walking in that neighborhood is fantastic, but cycling was brutal when I was there.
There is no master plan, but two of the main streets are getting big makeovers. Klarabergsgatan is in the middle of a renovation and re-modelling. Most of it will be car-free, there will be bike lanes and there will be trams: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fTZI0kPJCu...licerat+ma.jpg
Vasagatan hasn't had work start yet, but planning is well under way: http://www.tyrens.se/media/1595/vasa...tion160512.png

Neither is all about bikes, but proper bikelanes are a big part of the results.
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