[Ebbc-Talk] In America's 'Most Bikeable' Cities, Bike Lanes Rule : NPR

  In America's 'Most Bikeable' Cities,Bike Lanes Rule : NPR

Long Beach, CA has built some parking-separated cycle tracks which I  
believe provide space for both the bike lane and a door zone.  The  
door zone space is marked with diagonal hash marks, although I think  
the plan is to build something like a sidewalk in the door zone.  I'll  
try to find some pictures of the street.  I believe they did this with  
freeway arterials that connect with the Long Beach Freeway (2nd Ave  
and Pacific?) which were 4 lane one way streets.

On May 19, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Brit Harvey wrote:

> I rode on a couple of "parking-separated cycle tracks" in Paris.  
> They did
> not make me feel safe. People getting out of cars constantly cross  
> your
> "track" and sometimes unload packages, babies, etc. into the  
> "track", since
> it is safer than the car side. Getting doored from the left side is  
> a risk
> unless the "track" is quite wide. Pedestrians cross mid-block,  
> slipping
> between cars and are hard to see. The bicyclist is trapped in the  
> narrow
> "track" with little room for evasive actions. There are commonly large
> street trees immeidately adjacent to the "track", which along with  
> parked
> cars, make it likely that a falling bicyclist will hit a fixed  
> object. The
> car parking has to end well before any cross-streets or the  
> bicyclists will
> be dealing with impaired sight lines for both seeing and being seen by
> turning vehicles. I only noticed two of these "tracks" in Paris in  
> 1999. I
> don't know whether they were experiments, whether they still exist, or
> whether there are more of them now. I do know that I would rather  
> ride with
> the motor vehicle traffic than in one of these "tracks".
>
> Brit Harvey
>
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> Rule :
> NPR
>
>> Lerner says that despite its hilly geography, San Francisco tied
>> with Portland on the strength of its extensive network of bike lanes.
>>
>>
>> New York made the Top 10 list primarily for its efforts to build
>> new, and safer, bike lanes.
>>
>> "For example, they have what are called parking-separated cycle
>> tracks, where there's a barrier of parked cars between the traffic
>> and the bikers - and that's a really great way to make bikers feel
>> safer."
>>
>> As Lerner tells NPR's Melissa Block, Walk Score recently assigned a
>> Bike Score to U.S. cities based on four criteria: the number of
>> bike lanes and hills; the nearness of destinations; and the number
>> of bike commuters...
>>
>
> http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153029914/minneapolis-portland-ore-top-
> bikeable-cities-list
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