Posts tagged Bike Lanes
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Hopewell, VA’s complete streets overhaul shows small towns can be urbanist too
The successes and setbacks of creating safer streetscapes in big cities dominate our imagination, but many corners of small town America are quietly undergoing a complete streets transformation as well. The compact street grids of smaller cities like Hopewell, Virginia that developed before the advent of the automobile represent low-hanging fruit in the fight for safer, healthier, and more sustainable communities. Keep reading…
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Opponents of a Spring Valley bike lane are singing a familiar, erroneous tune
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a group of residents is opposing plans to add bike lanes because they think it will lead to increased congestion, despite traffic counts that show the road is overbuilt. The latest iteration of this is unfolding in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest DC along Dalecarlia Parkway. Keep reading…
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Brianne Nadeau and five colleagues want to force action on the stalled Shaw bikeway
The DC Council could send a very strong message to the Bowser administration, insiting it move forward on a north-south protected bikeway on 9th Street NW through downtown and Shaw, under a new emergency bill slated for consideration December 3. Keep reading…
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Norfolk hopes to turn the tide on its transit
After years of stagnating ridership, Norfolk hopes to rejuvenate its transit system by modeling it after the City of Richmond’s successful bus system update. Norfolk is hoping to attract more people to its bus networks and expand its light rail system to be more useful to riders throughout the Hampton Roads region. Keep reading…
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A connected bikeway network wins out over parking protection on P Street SW
Despite opposition from the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission, DC will build a protected bikeway on P Street SW, completing a missing link in the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail. Keep reading…
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Baltimore swapped a car lane for bike lanes on Harford Road. Will the city do it again?
This past May, Baltimore swapped a car lane for bike lanes on one of the busiest and most dangerous stretches of one of its busiest and most dangerous roads. Some local officials hope the Hamilton Business District Streetscape Project serves as a model transforming other busy Baltimore streets. Others say the freeway has been turned into a “parking lot.” Keep reading…
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P Street SW could get a protected bikeway, but some residents don’t want to lose parking
DC wants to build a protected bikeway along P Street SW to close an important connectivity gap in the Anacostia River Trail network. However, the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) unanimously opposes the plan because it would involve removing parking, and says the project poses a threat to affordability in the area. Keep reading…
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Did Bowser kill the Shaw bikeway? She won’t say.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she is committed to eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024, the District’s goal under the Vision Zero initiative it adopted in 2015. Yet for more than three years her administration has quietly stalled an important safety project, a protected bikeway on 9th Street NW, and refused to give the public straight answers about why. Keep reading…
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In just 5 hours, volunteers collected over 300 bike lane violations in Arlington
On October 17, 40 volunteers and I spread out across bike lanes in Crystal City, Rosslyn, and Ballston to see just how many drivers stop in or otherwise block bicycle lanes. We collected more than 300 bike lane violations in just five hours! Keep reading…
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National links: How “green” are electric cars anyway?
The electric car movement may not be as clean a transition as we think. A major national transportation organization calls for a new vision for federal spending. Seattle wants to put a lid on one of its freeways. Keep reading…