Guess which city is welcoming bike lanes? And guess which one is set to remove them? If you guessed some European or Canadian city for the first one, and a U.S. one for the second question....well, you'd be wrong.
New York City, according to DNAinfo.com (the Ameritrade founder's nifty news operation) is adding bike lane's to busy First and Second Avenues in Manhattan--the capital of traffic congestion (and Calgary; San Mateo, Calif., and Salem, Ore. are also adding lanes). Toronto, of all places--progressive, flat, Canadian--may be removing lanes on busy Jarvis Street, InsideToronto.com reported.
Showing posts with label bicycle lanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle lanes. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
WHEELS Wednesdays: A Special Report From LaneLand
Bicycle lanes continue to attract eyes: a University of Massachusetts think-tanker says they create more jobs than other kinds of spending (for building them, or the echo?) Still, lane miles grow. Burbank, Calif., re-did roughly three miles of Verdugo Ave., converting from a four-lane arterial (with parallel parking), to a two-lane, with bike lanes. Here's the master-plan.
LaneLand is still in turmoil, though: The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., reports business owners along that cotton-trading hub's Madison Ave. don't cotton (sorry...) to a "road diet," which shrinks the four-laner to two, for bikes. They object that they started their businesses on a four-laner (and your point is what, exactly, given cars can't all park at the store-front?). TBD....
LaneLand is still in turmoil, though: The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., reports business owners along that cotton-trading hub's Madison Ave. don't cotton (sorry...) to a "road diet," which shrinks the four-laner to two, for bikes. They object that they started their businesses on a four-laner (and your point is what, exactly, given cars can't all park at the store-front?). TBD....
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