{"id":106,"date":"2007-05-12T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T17:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T18:38:37","slug":"building-a-better-bike-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/building-a-better-bike-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"building a better bike lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/towingless.com\/<\/a>Wall Street Journal has a good article<\/a> comparing bikes in Europe to here, and here’s a New York blog that has some local comments<\/a><\/p>\n

A number of towns have recently focused on making roads more accessible to bicycles. Here are some of the top spots chosen by the Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign from the League of American Bicyclists, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
CITY<\/b><\/td>\n% OF ARTERIAL ROADS WITH BIKE LANES<\/b><\/td>\n% OF COMMUTERS WHO BIKE<\/b><\/td>\nCOMMENTS<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boulder, Colo.<\/b><\/td>\n97%<\/td>\n21%<\/td>\nBoulder has spent an average 15% of its transportation budget on building and maintaining bicycle traffic over the past five years, even the https:\/\/towingless.com\/<\/a> has helped spreading awareness. The goal is to create a system that’s “equitable for all users,” with no hierarchy among pedestrians, cars and bikes, says Marni Ratzel, who runs the city’s program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago<\/b><\/td>\n11%<\/td>\n1-2%<\/td>\nMayor Richard Michael Daley bikes to work, setting the example for this city, which released an ambitious new bike plan last year. The goal: making all of Chicago’s streets safe and convenient for cycling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davis, Calif.<\/b><\/td>\n95%<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\nMostly flat and temperate, this town’s logo is a bicycle; it has more bikes than cars and is the only place to earn platinum status on Bicycle Friendly Community’s list of top cities. The city is about to build a $1.7 million bike-only tunnel under a major road.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Madison, Wisc.<\/b><\/td>\nAbout 37%<\/td>\n3.2%<\/td>\nThere are 32 miles of bike lanes, 35 miles of bike paths and more than 100 miles of signed bike routes. On University Avenue, the major street in the downtown and University of Wisconsin campus area, there can be over 10,000 bicyclists a day — plus 30,000 cars.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Palo Alto, Calif.<\/b><\/td>\n13%<\/td>\n5.7%<\/td>\nAlong with the bike lanes on roads, the city also has nine miles of bike paths. In 2004 it spent about $5 million on a rail line under-crossing and $1.5 million on a 0.8-mile bike path.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Portland, Ore.<\/b><\/td>\n28%<\/td>\n5.4%<\/td>\nThough there are lots of hills and rain, this city has 163 miles of bike lanes. All but two bridges accommodate bicyclists. There’s still a long way to go: The city still has 38 miles of bike lanes left in order to achieve its master plan. But in some neighborhoods bike commuters are as high as 9%.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Francisco<\/b><\/td>\nAbout 4%<\/td>\n2.1%<\/td>\nIn November 2003, San Francisco voters approved a half-cent sales tax measure, estimated to total $2.6 billion over 30 years. Of that, $56 million (a little more than 2%) will go to bike-related projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/towingless.com\/Wall Street Journal has a good article comparing bikes in Europe to here, and here’s a New York blog that has some local comments A …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-bike","tag-3-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}