Some good articles, as usual, in this week's Green Lane (cycle track or protected bike lane) Project news.
I particularly like this quote: "Every person biking on a sidewalk is really just casting a vote for a protected bike lane."
Also, this chart from San Franciscohttp://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/no-protected-bike-lanes-are-not-too-expensive-chartcomparing the miniscule cost of building a curb extension or a protected bike lane vs a mile of roadway.
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With Washington DC clearing up its latest blizzard, we were pleased to discover a similarly paranormal phenomenon in the bollard-protected bike lane on L Street. (And to discover that, yes, it did actually make the lane more pleasant to ride a Capital Bikeshare bicycle in.)
The rise of curbshttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=4d2a03ea0b&e=92d6ca5673: happening in most U.S. cities, at least occasionally, whether they intend it or not.
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No, protected bike lanes are probably not too expensive for your city to build (chart)http://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=4d9d9583ff&e=92d6ca5673 Mar 05, 2014 04:13 am
Last week, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition published a brief explorationhttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=e9633f4f23&e=92d6ca5673of what it called the "myth" that "there's no way we can keep spending so much on bike lanes with so many other pressing needs in San Francisco."
To make their point that dramatically improving biking and walking in a city costs almost nothing compared to many other transportation projects -- in San Francisco, one of the bike-friendliest cities in the country, bike projects take up less than 1 percent of the municipal transportation budget -- they listed some typical cost figures.
We decided to further explore this question by creating a simple bar chart, based on the same data. We'll let you draw whatever conclusions you see fit.
[image: bar chart comparing SF transportation project costs]
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One weird old trick to find the best streets for protected bike laneshttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=3704638554&e=92d6ca5673 Mar 04, 2014 02:20 am
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Every person biking on a sidewalk is really just casting a vote for a protected bike lane.
That's the core of anotherhttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=4d54ce8478&e=92d6ca5673great idea from Minneapolis's remarkable advocacy coalition Bikeways for Everyonehttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=9e1e11429f&e=92d6ca5673, the group that has made constructing 30 miles of protected bike lanes in the Twin Cities by 2020 its top priority.
Here's their map of the six locations in Minneapolis where more than 25 percent of people on bikes tend to ride on the sidewalkhttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=5ebdfa04e3&e=92d6ca5673 :
[image: Minneapolis sidewalk biking map]
And to get a sense for why, here's the Google Street View for one such location, at NE Lowry Avenue and Central Avenue NE:
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