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Old Posted Apr 23, 2011, 11:16 PM
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I wish they'd do something like that here along South Congress south of downtown. That area has a lot of shops and restaurants. Congress is a wide, 6 lane wide street with a lot of traffic, being that it's the main artery into downtown. The street has angled parking at those businesses. There is a bike lane, but it kind of peters out in some areas and isn't always marked, especially through the section of angled parking. Cars generally give you room, but there are some spots where you'll have a big pickup or something hanging out of its space. So then you have to swerve around them which puts you into traffic. Cars usually stay at least 3 feet away, but the speed limit along there is 35 to 40 mph, so it can be hairy. It would be sweet if they had dedicated bike lanes near the curb and put the parking out there. But I guess it would be a problem then with bicycles plowing into pedestrians who stepped into the bike boulevard.

We do have at least one street in downtown that is planned to have a bike boulevard, Nueces Street on the west side of downtown.
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Austin fosters growing cycling community with infrastructure, events

Pam LeBlanc, Fit City


Updated: 9:17 a.m. Saturday, April 23, 2011
Published: 9:14 a.m. Saturday, April 23, 2011

If you've pedaled a bicycle around Austin lately, you might have noticed something: You're not alone.

But exactly how many people are cycling? We can guess by looking around that it's more than 10 or 20 years ago, but we've never really know by how much.

Until now.

Last fall, as part of a $100,000 study funded by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization and the city of Austin, the Texas Transportation Institute purchased and installed two permanent bicycle and pedestrian counters - one on the Lance Armstrong Bikeway bridge over Shoal Creek and another at the Lance Armstrong Bikeway bridge over Waller Creek.

Those counters, which count passersby automatically with infrared sensors, show that on average, a total of more than 1,100 bicyclists cross those two bridges daily, with peak traffic on Saturdays - numbers so high that they surprised even Greg Griffin, a senior planner at CAMPO. Numbers spiked to about 5,000 bicyclists per day during the music festival portion of South by Southwest. Toss in pedestrians and the daily average doubles.

"There are city streets that don't have that many cars in a day," Griffin said.
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Here are a couple pics displaying Vancouver's style of cycling lanes. These were implemented last year.





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^^ those photos (and lanes) are SWEET! I'd love to see some of those in downtown LA.
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^ Thats a serious cycle track.
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Check out BIXI Toronto’s 80 downtown bike locations on one interactive map:

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BIXI is slated to launch in Toronto on May 3 with 1,000 bikes spread out over 80 stations. While we’re all for bringing the Montreal bike-sharing company to the city’s congested streets, the initial offering is a little limited. All 1,500 docking stations are confined to the area between Bloor, Spadina, Queens Quay and Jarvis Street, with a pair of outliers at Jarvis on Queen Quay and in Kensington Market.

For the uninitiated, BIXI is simple to use: it takes a small credit card payment to unlock a bike, which can be procured for a one-time fee of $5 for 24 hours or $12 for 72 hours (monthly and yearly subscriptions are also offered at $40 and $95, respectively). Considering the program’s success in Montreal—with 400 stands and 5,000 bikes scattered across the city—we’re hoping BIXI Toronto takes hold among the city’s commuters as the warmer weather rolls in.

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Spring brings growth of regional public bicycle program Capital Bikeshare


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With the arrival of spring, more bike docking stations are opening in the District and Arlington, and last week, an additional 25 locations were proposed.

The Capital Bikeshare program now knows its own rush hours — coinciding, not surprisingly, with everybody else’s rush hour. At its peak, bikes are rapidly snapped up from docking stations in neighborhoods dense with younger people — Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, Columbia Heights and the U Street corridor.

Trucks from Alta Bicycle Share, the contractor that runs the program, buzz around to the downtown office buildings where the bikes end up, collecting them and rushing them back to neighborhoods for the next wave of commuters.

“There have been complaints that people come out and there are no bikes available, and the other issue is that you get downtown to work and the docking stations are all filled,” said John Lisle, District Department of Transportation spokesman. “Hopefully, within 15 to 20 minutes [Alta] moves the bikes out and back to the people who want to use them next.”

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‘Cycle tracks’ in cities could save bicyclists lives


May 3rd, 2011

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Dr. Anne Lusk wants everyone to learn a new term: “cycle track.” And not just learn it — apply it to the planning and development of cities everywhere. A forceful advocate of bicycling, Lusk commanded the spotlight at CNU-New England’s annual conference in March when she received the chapter’s first Achievement Award and repeatedly pressed conferees to make biking an integral part of community design.

- Biking, she argues, is much more effective than walking when it comes to controlling weight, improving people’s health, and making transit-oriented development function well. In her eight years at Harvard, Lusk has concentrated on getting planners, transportation specialists, and others to view biking as a routine, indeed almost essential, element of daily life — the way it is already seen in Denmark and the Netherlands. She pursues this quest by generating high-quality research on biking, health, and communities and through outspoken advocacy.

- The biggest thing preventing biking becoming much more widespread, Lusk says, is fear. A large proportion of Americans are afraid of being hit by a motor vehicle if they ride a vulnerable bike on the streets and roads. That’s especially true of women. Only 24 percent of Americans who bike to work are women. The danger is not imaginary. “The injury rate of bicyclists is at least 26 times greater than in the Netherlands,” Lusk and five co-authors wrote in a risk assessment this February in the journal.

- One of the reasons biking is so much safer in the Netherlands and Denmark is that the principal bicycle facilities in those two countries are cycle tracks — bike paths physically separated from motor vehicle traffic. Cycle tracks run parallel to the sidewalk, and are exclusively for bike riding. The 18,000 miles of cycle tracks in the Netherlands help to explain why 27 percent of Dutch trips are made on bicycles. (In that country, 55 percent of bike trips are made by women.) Cycle tracks are common in Montreal. In most places in the US, however, they’re rare or nonexistent.

The comparisons showed:

• The risk of injury was 28 percent lower on the cycle tracks than on the streets. Dutch experience suggests that cycle tracks are safer yet when they are one-way.

• Overall, 2.5 times as many cyclists rode on cycle tracks as on streets lacking separated bike lanes.

Lusk recommends cycle tracks about eight feet wide and separated from the sidewalk, to prevent collisions with pedestrians. In some cases, a curb separates the cycle track from the sidewalk. A wide cycle track has the advantage of providing enough space for a parent to ride next to a child.

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As a bit of a follow up to the recent photos of Vancouver's new downtown cycle tracks I thought I would post a few shots of what Vancouver's bicycle routes look like in the more residential areas of the city. Vancouver's goal is to have traffic calmed bicycle friendly streets immediately adjacent, or very close, to all the city's main streets outside of the downtown core where separated cycle tracks are planned. Traffic calming on these residential side streets includes giving cyclists the right of way at intersections or using small round-abouts in lieu of four-way stops, blocking through access to vehicles on the perpendicular streets, installing cyclist controlled traffic lights at major intersections, occasionally even dead-ending the street while permitting bicycles and pedestrians to flow through. Signage has generally been poor but that is improving, especially on approaching streets so that vehicles have some warning and can take extra caution, especially at night when way too many drivers look for the wash of headlights when they approach an intersection and sometimes blow through a stop sign if they think the coast is clear. That is instead of actually stopping and looking before proceeding. Plus the additional signage is essential for helping new cyclists navigate the nascent cycling network that otherwise looks little different than a normal residential side street.

I happened to be out in the middle of the day when the roads were quiet enough to feel comfortable taking a couple of pictures as I rode. Unfortunately it also meant that these photos are not at all representative of the level of bicycle (and increasingly skateboard) traffic Vancouver's bike routes receive during the rush hour blitz. I'll try to snap some of those when I can.

7th Avenue "off Broadway" route. This one is less popular than the route in the following pictures but it serves a valuable role as a major east-west route that is down slope from Broadway.

Taken by SFUVancouver, May 3rd, 2011.


10th Avenue "cross town" route. This is the east-west backbone of the city and a very heavily used corridor every other time than the moments I took these photos.


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NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide




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The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide is based on the experience of the best cycling cities in the world. The designs in this document were developed by cities for cities, since unique urban streets require innovative solutions. Most of these treatments are not directly referenced in the current versions of the AASHTO Guide to Bikeway Facilities or the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), although many of the elements are found within these documents.

- The intent of the Guide is to offer substantive guidance for cities seeking to improve bicycle transportation in places where competing demands for the use of the right of way present unique challenges.

- This Guide has been created by a panel of professionals from NACTO member cities and a consulting team consisting of international experts in bikeway design along with the support of the NACTO Board of Directors. The NACTO Guide can be adopted by individual cities, counties, or states as either a stand-alone document or as a supplement to other guidance documents.

- First and foremost, the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide is intended to help practitioners make good decisions about urban bikeway design. The treatments outlined in the Guide are based on real-life experience in the world’s most bicycle friendly cities and have been selected because of their utility in helping cities meet their goals related to bicycle transportation.

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Bike Lanes: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/...de/bike-lanes/


Cycle Tracks: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/.../cycle-tracks/


Intersections: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/...on-treatments/


Signals: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/...cycle-signals/


Signs: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/...gning-marking/
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As city considers new bike lanes, report says Phila. leads big cities in bike commuting


May 10, 2011

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So many people are biking to work that Philadelphia has twice as many two-wheeled commuters as any other large city, according to a report released Monday by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. The report came a day before a scheduled public meeting on the creation of dedicated bike lanes on 10th and 13th Streets. Those north-south lanes, which would connect South Street to Spring Garden Street, would complement the dedicated east-west lanes on Pine and Spruce Streets.

- The timing of the report was coincidental to the city's plans to pilot new bike lanes, said Sarah Clark Stuart, the nonprofit coalition's campaign director. Nonetheless, she said, the data shows the city "needs more and better bike lanes." "As soon as Spruce and Pine were put in, a lot of people were asking, 'Where's the north-south lanes,' " Stuart said. Dedicated bike lanes are created by taking two-lane, one-way streets, and making one lane for bikes only. Opponents have argued that bike lanes create traffic congestion. The city tested bike lanes on Spruce and Pine and made them permanent when they proved to be popular and had little adverse effect on traffic.

- Overall, slightly more than 2 percent of Philadelphians bike to work - double the next large city, Chicago - and several city neighborhoods match the country's leafy college towns and noted hipster enclaves for bicycle commuting. Out of 2,100 census neighborhoods, Center City and South Philadelphia rank in the top 25, with both neighborhoods having more than 5 percent of their population getting to work on two wheels. Those neighborhoods share the top 25 with Berkeley, Calif., and Cambridge, Mass., and neighborhoods in Portland, Ore., and Minneapolis.

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So I suppose Portland or Seattle aren't big cities?^ How strange.

Regardless, this is good news for Philly. Hopefully other cities can match their level of biking.
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If I remember correctly, that statement defines "big city" as one of the country's ten largest, which explains why Portland and Seattle aren't mentioned. Interestingly, much of the growth in Philly's bike population took place long before City Hall began taking bike infrastructure seriously at all, which goes to show that bike lanes are only one (still very important) part of the equation. Even without separated lanes, the city has some of the best "bones" to make biking work: a dense yet very compact city center, narrow streets on a tight grid, and relatively slow car traffic. With more bike lanes in Center City, it's going to get so much better!
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Feds could cut off cash for bike paths, sidewalks


May 5, 2011

By Dan Tracy

Read More: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,2426021.story

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Millions of tax dollars set aside by law to build bike paths and sidewalks in Florida and elsewhere could be siphoned away for roads if U.S. Rep. John Mica and state transportation officials are successful in changing the rules. Mica, R-Winter Park, who chairs the powerful House transportation committee, said he wants to streamline the process by which billions of federal-gas-tax dollars are divided annually. Among the regulations he intends to eliminate is the one that directs about 10 percent of that money to bike lanes, sidewalks and other items. He has the support of Ananth Presad, recently appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to be top administrator of the Florida Department of Transportation.

- During a congressional hearing run by Mica in Maitland last month, Presad said, "We must give serious consideration to whether — when resources and dollars are at a premium — spending money on sidewalks, bike trails, beautification and other projects like this is the most prudent use of taxpayer money." Mica told the Orlando Sentinel he wants to add flexibility to how states spend their share of federal gas taxes by cutting back on mandates. He added that states still could spend on bike paths and sidewalks if they were a priority. "I favor some attention to enhancements [bike paths, sidewalks]," Mica said, "but there's no reason I have to dictate it."

- Biking and walking enthusiasts are concerned about the possible policy change. "If you take the money away, there's virtually no replacement for it," said Brad Kuhn, director of Bike/Walk Central Florida. Tim Bustos, a former transportation planner and director of the Florida Bicycling Association, said the change would be tantamount "to taking us back in time 20 years." Rick Geller, a lawyer and Orange County planning and zoning commissioner, said Central Florida roads already are ranked among the deadliest in the country for bikers and pedestrians. Reduced funding, he said, would make the region even more dangerous.

- Just this month, MetroPlan approved spending $3.1 million for bike paths in Orlando, Orange and Seminole counties. MetroPlan spokeswoman Kelley Teague said her agency is "watching and waiting" to see what will happen with the new transportation bill. Mica intends to have the committee vote on the spending bill sometime in May or June, likely setting up the summer for debate. The previous bill expired in 2009, and neither side could agree on a new one, leaving to a series of short-term amendments to keep the money flowing.

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I like the idea of bike lanes and repaired sidewalks. But I strongly object to the federal government being involved in this. This is a decision that should be made by local cities out of their own funds and only if there is local support. If funds are not available for sidewalk repair, the city should very seriously rethink what they are spending money on and why this has priority over sidewalks. They may even find ways to reorder priorities. Providing more federal money is just an excuse to avoid the hard decisions and to create more "one size fits all" programs.
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[Vancouver] Hornby Street cycle track photo | May 12th 2011


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This is a photo I took today during my lunch hour of part of Vancouver's new downtown cycle track network. This photo shows the Hornby Street cycle track, the city's newest, and it is looking north towards the CBD part of downtown. Hornby Street is a fairly important one-way street which previously had a one-way painted bicycle lane situated between on-street parking and the travel lane. It received use but was difficult to access from the Burrard Bridge where bridge deck space was reallocated to create two protected cycle tracks that saw more than a million bicycle trips during its first year of operation. The Hornby Street cycle track was strongly opposed by merchants along the route that were fearful about the loss of on-street parking, this is despite the fact that there are more than 10,000 parking spaces in parking garages within one block of the street. The City committed to ensuring there would be on-street parking on at least one side of the street for the length of the cycle track. The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses predicted that half of the businesses on Hornby would fail but this prediction has proved baseless.

Here are the first round of ridership statistics for the Hornby Street cycle track alongside those for the Dunsmuir Street cycle track.

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[Vancouver] Cycling route photos | May 12th 2011

Here is a photo of part of the Mosaic bicycle route that connects up with the Adanac bike route pictured next. Speed bumps and a lower speed limit of 30kph due to a nearby school help to make this a safe and pleasant cycling route despite crossing through light industrial areas and being plagued by hills.

Taken by SFUVancouver, May 13th 2011.

The popular Adanac bike route as it winds through a more industrial part of the city.

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Even here there are still bicycle and pedestrian controlled traffic lights at busy intersections.

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The City has supported several bicycle themed murals along the route which are genuinely quite nice.

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At Main Street the Adanac bike route ends leaving cyclists with two options for continuing on into downtown Vancouver. The first option is to continue straight on Adanac for another block to where the street merges with Expo Boulevard and there is a painted bicycle lane. Expo Boulevard crosses the Carral Street Greenway cycle track, which connects historic Gastown with the off-street Seawall pedestrian and bicycle route that rings much of the city's waterfront. Ultimately Expo Boulevard turns into Pacific Boulevard that meets up with the Hornby Street cycle track and the Burrard Bridge. The second option is to veer left onto the Dunsmuir Viaduct cycle track that takes one into the downtown core. There is a 50+ foot escarpment that separates the False Creek Flats from the downtown core and the Dunsmuir Viaduct helps vehicles, and now cyclists, make the transition. A lane of road deck space was reallocated to cyclists in the form of a cycle track. The lane had been previously closed off to vehicles as a traffic management experiment so in this instance there was not an actual reduction in road space through the construction of the cycle track. Also, during the 2010 Winter Olympics the entire viaduct and its twin the Georgia viaduct were closed for two months for security reasons and life went on just fine without it prompting a study by City Hall to see whether the viaducts are worth retaining when the time comes for significant mid-life refurbishment some time in the next twenty years.


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Having crossed the Dunsmuir viaduct, here are a few photos of the new Dunsmuir street cycle track. Up ahead in the next block there is a bus stop with a shelter on one side of the cycle track and a pedestrian median for boarding on the other.

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Here is a photo of the permanent in-street bicycle counters that are used throughout the cycle track network to monitor use. They appear to be the same type of induction loops that are used at intersections to gauge how long the line is for a left turn.

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An after work recreational group of cyclists turning onto the Hornby cycle track.

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Traffic lights for the Hornby cycle track include bicycle symbol lights. Technically these are not allowed under our Province's transportation laws but the City's lawyers essentially said 'just go for it' to the Engineering Department since there is ample precedent for the lights in cities around the world and in several jurisdictions in Canada and the United States.

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Here I'm approaching the apogee of the Burrard Street bridge and one can clearly see the reallocation of a road lane for the cycle track. The concrete barriers are temporary and the City has committed to improving the aesthetics as part of its decision to make this cycle track and bridge deck space allocation permanent.

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The south end of the Burrard Bridge. On this side of the bridge a vehicle lane was reallocated to cyclists for southbound travel while on the opposite side the sidewalk has been converted into a bicycle-only lane for northbound travel. The sidewalk on the near side of the bridge is now for pedestrians only. Previously cyclists and pedestrians shared the narrow sidewalks of the 1930s art deco era bridge. During the first year of the reallocation trial just over a million bicycles were counted and pedestrian use reached an all time high. North bound vehicles in the same three lanes as before had less than a minute's average delay because of the changes while no delays southbound for the two lanes (one changed to a cycle track) of traffic were recorded, plus transit vehicles have not been affected enough to register in on-time scheduling monitoring.

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If the left turn bay pictured above seems a little excessive, believe me when I say that it's often too small.


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Ah, I wish we had infrastructure like that!
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Caltrain adding more bicycle rack space

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On Friday, Caltrain's board of directors approved a resolution that will increase space for bicycles on its weekday train service, a transit spokeswoman said.

The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board of Directors adopted a resolution that will expand this year's budget by $300,000 to pay for the Gallery Car Bike Rack Installation Project, Caltrain spokeswoman Tasha Bartholomew said.

The project will convert 10 standard gallery cars into bike cars, allowing each weekday train set to increase its capacity to 80 spaces in two bike cars, Bartholomew said.

Current service has some train-sets with one bike car, and some with two.

"We are very pleased to hear the news," San Francisco Bicycle Coalition policy director Andy Thornley said.

"We've definitely been working with a lot of energy with the notion of getting the service consistent," Thornley said.
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the thought of guarded bikeways down the length of wilshire and santa monica makes me salivate. for the a city that hosts a bicycling event as prominent as ciclavia los angeles sure lacks some basic bike infrastructure. i guess we're overcompensating for what's taken for granted in more progressive cities like vancouver and amsterdam where bicycling is treated as a viable lifestyle
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