Posts tagged Bike Lanes
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Support two-way 15th Street today
This evening is the DDOT public meeting about 15th Street. It’s from 6-8 pm at the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, 15th and R. The format will be an “open house” style, where you can peruse the materials and leave comments but don’t need to sit through a whole long meeting; there will be presentations at 6:15 and 7:15 about the options. Keep reading…
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More bike lanes in Petworth
DDOT (wearing their Dr. Jekyll face) will be adding bike lanes in Petworth, northbound on 7th Street to Sherman Circle and southbound on 5th from Grant Circle, according to Mayor’s Ward 4 liaison Joseph Martin. These will connect to the existing lanes south of Rock Creek Church Road (on Warder and Park) that reach as far south as Kenyon and Irving. The 5th Street bike lane will… Keep reading…
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Dupont’s 18th Street next for reconstruction
On top of the streetscape reconstructions planned for 17th Street, 14th Street, U Street, and Adams Morgan’s 18th Street, DDOT recently announced plans to rebuild 18th Street between Massachusetts and Florida. Some plans were done years ago and shelved, but 18th Street’s water main needs rebuilding, and so the street redo is back on the front burner. Keep reading…
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America’s stupidest bike lane is in Silver Spring
After playing a video of a bike lane in Los Angeles that suddenly disappears only half a block from where it started, Slate V started a national contest to find the stupidest bike lane in America. The winner? A 20-foot dead-end patch of road that invites bicyclists to go the wrong way down a one-way street. And it’s right here in Silver Spring, Maryland. Keep reading…
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Get involved this week in PG Co., Arlington, DC
It’s the first week of the month and that means lots and lots of great opportunities to speak up in local government! Keep reading…
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Klingle: Even more cars in Rock Creek?
San Francisco has the Embarcadero Freeway. New York has the West Side Highway. In both cases, nature forced the city to close a road which it would never have had the political fortitude to do otherwise. In both cases, residents realized they didn’t really need the road after all. Keep reading…
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Fire Mary Peters
The Teamsters have a campaign going to fire US DOT Secretary Mary Peters for continuing a program that lets Mexican trucks haul freight in the US with lower safety standards. It’s a good cause, but it’s not the only reason Mary Peters ought to be fired—there’s her dislike for bike paths, unenthusiasm for transit, and opposition to gas tax increases are all… Keep reading…
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“I’m all for bike lanes but” not enough room to double park
Today’s Gridlock Sam column in the NY Daily News contains this letter that reveals the amazing absurdity of New York’s parking mess. This truck driver depends on double parking to make deliveries, but new bike lanes interfere with space for the double parking. Does he criticize the lack of loading zones? No, it’s clearly the bike lanes at fault. And rather… Keep reading…
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Are protected bike lanes actually more dangerous?
New York has its first physically separated bike lane on 9th Avenue, where the parked cars sit between the bike land and traffic, protecting riders. I emailed DDOT’s Chris Ziemann about the 15th Street reconfiguration, suggesting a similar lane there. Ziemann responded that “separating the bikes from traffic is safer for bikes along the block, but much more dangerous… Keep reading…
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DDOT may restore two-way traffic on 15th Street
NYC DOT has been on a tear recently converting some excessively wide, one-way neighborhood streets like Carlton Ave in Fort Greene and 9th Street in Park Slope into two-way streets with medians and bike lanes that balance the needs of cars, pedestrians, and bicyclists. DC has some of these too, like 15th Street NW, a four-lane (plus parking) high-speed road that’s about… Keep reading…