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San Jose Merchants Object to Parking Removal for Bike Lanes on Park Ave

By Andrew Boone | Aug 19, 2014 | 14 Comments

About 150 residents attended a community meeting last Wednesday hosted by the San Jose Department of Transportation in the Willow Glen neighborhood to introduce plans for new bike lanes and sharrows on six streets west of downtown. The projects would complement four less extensive bikeway projects on streets east of downtown which were presented on August 6. […]

East Palo Alto’s Highway 101 Ped/Bike Bridge Almost Fully Funded

By Andrew Boone | Aug 15, 2014 | 4 Comments

East Palo Alto’s decades-long dream to reconnect its east and west sides via a pedestrian/bicycle bridge has taken a huge leap forward. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) approved the city’s $8.6 million application to construct a 12-foot wide bridge over Highway 101 between Newell Road and Clarke Avenue, following East Palo Alto’s City Council’s […]

Removing Center Lines Reduced Speeding on London Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 15, 2014 | No Comments

On some streets, getting drivers to stop speeding might be as easy as eliminating a few stripes. That’s the finding from a new study from Transport for London [PDF]. TfL recently examined the effect of eliminating center lines on three London streets. The agency found it slowed average driving speeds between 5 and 9 miles per hour, […]

Where Cyclists Have the Power to Ride Straight Past Turning Motorists

By Ben Fried | Aug 14, 2014 | No Comments

Hey, so it turns out the all-powerful @BicycleLobby didn’t actually scale the Brooklyn Bridge and plant white American flags at the top. That was two all-powerful German artists. But courtesy of Clarence Eckerson Jr., here’s some footage of raw bicyclist power in Copenhagen, where turning drivers defer to people on bikes at intersections. I guess […]

The Plan to Build Bicycle Highways Where Cleveland’s Streetcars Once Ran

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 12, 2014 | No Comments

Like many cities in America, Cleveland grew into its own as a streetcar city. In the early part of the last century, hundreds of miles of streetcars connected all corners of the city as well as its inner suburbs. The streets where tracks carried passengers — Lorain, Superior, Euclid — were the circulatory system of the […]

East San Jose Bikeway Plan Scrutinized, Park Avenue Parking Debate Begins

By Andrew Boone | Aug 11, 2014 | 5 Comments

About two dozen residents attended a San Jose Department of Transportation (SJDOT) community meeting last Wednesday, where staff gathered public input on four upcoming bike lane and sharrow projects planned for east San Jose streets. Five other projects, which will add bike lanes and sharrows to streets west of downtown — and, to the chagrin […]

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