John Hennessy III,
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It’s hard not to get emotional seeing how if we build proper infrastructure and a bike network and people will come out. Brooklyn Spoke’s Doug Gordon and friends organized a short ride to PS 118 and I was surprised to see so many happy faces.
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The Dutch capital Amsterdam is widely known for being bike-friendly. But it wasn’t always a model cycling city. Public outrage at rising traffic casualties in the Seventies caused city planners to rethink their approach to urban design. Video by Gloria Kurnik.
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This triumphant follow-up to Streetfilms’ 2014 video “Counting Bicyclists on NYC’s Manhattan Bridge” celebrates the Manhattan Bridge’s new bicycle counter. Cycling advocates discuss the effect of counting bicycles: what it means for communities and what it means for cyclists to have this basic data.
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Affordable transportation such as bicycling is a critical part of the fabric of a healthy city. The purpose of this report is to highlight the economic benefits of bicycle infrastructure or other improvements by calculating and assigning a dollar value to every additional bicycle mile generated by those improvements. These figures can then be used to calculate the effectiveness of specific projects – and to advocate for those projects that make economic sense.
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NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Introduction Shared use paths (SUPs), also known as greenways or trails, are unique facilities physically separated from motor vehicle traffic that allow a shared space in which bicyclists, pedestrians, and sometimes equestrian or other non-motorized users can travel. Often SUPs are constructed within an independent right-of-way and may follow a […]
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The L train shutdown — which will compel tens of thousands of New Yorkers to find an alternate route between Brooklyn and Manhattan — is a year away. But it’s not too soon to prepare. This morning Transportation Alternatives organized the first L Train Bike Train to get Brooklynites in the swing of riding across the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan.
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WYOMING BICYCLE & PEDESTRIAN TASK FORCE Executive Summary Legislative Background The Bicycle and Pedestrian System Task Force was created with the passage of Senate Enrolled Act 8 during the 2016 legislative session. The bill was developed by the Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee over the course of the prior year as part […]
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Complete Streets is a fundamentally different approach to transportation planning, design, and engineering than the status quo of the last half century. It requires that all aspects of decision-making and implementation consider the needs of all people who use a road, regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation. Streets are viewed as more than ways to move as many vehicles as possible. They are public spaces that connect and contribute to everything that surrounds them.
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On a chilly day, nearly 75 people turned out to support NYC DOT’s installation of a protected bike lane along a very dangerous stretch of Northern Boulevard which is used frequently by families, children and commuters to get to a highly popular recreation path called Joe Michael’s Mile in Eastern Queens.
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Earlier this summer, DOT filled an 18-block gap in the Second Avenue bike lane in Midtown. But there’s a big problem with the project: On most of those blocks, the new bike lane isn’t protected at rush hour, when the number of cyclists is highest and car traffic is most intense.So this morning, Transportation Alternatives volunteers took safety in their own hands, lining up between 45th Street and 44th Street to form a “human-protected bike lane” during the 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. rush.
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