Tag: bike lanes

April 18, 2011

Freight group upset that city cares about bike safety

There are these wonderful moments where opponents to bicycle projects just come right out and say what they mean. It’s refreshing to hear a group’s arguments against lanes without them being distorted into, say, an Orwellian desire to “protect” cyclists from dangerous roads by not building bike lanes. Some freight groups oppose proposed changes to…
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tagged: 2011 paving, airport way, bike lanes, georgetown, industry, manufacturing Industry council, marginal way, mic, publicola, sharrows
March 29, 2011

NE 55th project in Ravenna includes bike lanes, curb bulbs

Work to repave and reconfigure NE 55th St near Ravenna Park is scheduled to begin April 4. The project will add curb bulbs and bike lanes to the large, strange intersection of NE 55th, NE 54th, Ravenna Pl NE, Ravenna Ave NE and NE 22nd. The project will also add bio-retention areas to help with…
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tagged: 2011 paving, bike lanes, bio-retention, burke-gilman, complete streets, curb bulbs, ne 55th st, ravenna, ravenna blvd, ravenna park, sdot
January 17, 2011

DIY bike lanes in Gudalajara (video)

I linked to this video on Twitter a few days ago, but I’ve received so much positive feedback from people who watched it I thought I’d go ahead and make it the MLK Day video. This group of Gudalajara transportation activists (enlace en Español) were tired of waiting for the government to get their act…
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tagged: bike lanes, diy, gudalajara, mexico, video
December 15, 2010

SDOT’s year-end bike project roundup

SDOT wrote a blog post summing up their bike-related efforts this year. Needless to say, this year was great and tough at the same time. Our city installed miles of very good bike infrastructure, while simultaneously calming traffic speeds and making streets safer for everybody. Meanwhile, backlash against bike-related projects (no matter how irrational and…
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tagged: 2010, bike boxes, bike lanes, sdot
December 7, 2010

Greenwood Ave changes feel natural

Remember back when you could be riding your bike pleasantly along a relatively calm Greenwood Ave headed north, then you would reach 85th and the road would become a four-lane highway? The cars that were so recently calm would speed up, and you would more or less be pushed off the side of the road…
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tagged: bike lanes, greenwood, greenwood ave, road diets, road tailoring, sdot
December 2, 2010

Roosevelt and University Bridge bike lanes finally green

I was beginning to wonder if they forgot. Or maybe they ran out of money, I thought. It has been months since the bike lanes on Roosevelt, 11th and near the University Bridge went in, and I noticed from the start that there were sections marked “green.” Yet time passed and still no green.
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tagged: 11th, bike lanes, green bike lanes, roosevelt, trader joe’s, u district, university bridge