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Bicycle Boulevards
Which came first, the bike lane or the bicyclists?
Tobin Alexandra-Young, a painter and dedicated bicycle commuter, and member of the Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network, has been working for the past 18 months on making this city a safer place to commute on a bicycle, because, as Tobin says, he doesn't like to encourage people to ride a bike, because he feels the streets aren't safe enough.
How do you make the streets safe? By creating a network of on-street bike lanes and bicycle boulevards. To see Tobin's proposed map, visit this link. The map has been online for about two weeks.
The cost of creating these is not as important as the need to build a ground swell of support, says Tobin. The major cost in creating bicycle boulevards is in laying down stencils and stripping to help educate drivers on the need to share the road.
The first step in making all this happen, Tobin says, is gauging public interest, and soliciting support. So, check out the map, and let him know what you think.
Tobin Alexandra-Young, a painter and dedicated bicycle commuter, and member of the Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network, has been working for the past 18 months on making this city a safer place to commute on a bicycle, because, as Tobin says, he doesn't like to encourage people to ride a bike, because he feels the streets aren't safe enough.
How do you make the streets safe? By creating a network of on-street bike lanes and bicycle boulevards. To see Tobin's proposed map, visit this link. The map has been online for about two weeks.
The cost of creating these is not as important as the need to build a ground swell of support, says Tobin. The major cost in creating bicycle boulevards is in laying down stencils and stripping to help educate drivers on the need to share the road.
The first step in making all this happen, Tobin says, is gauging public interest, and soliciting support. So, check out the map, and let him know what you think.
posted by The Saratogian City Desk at
4:28 PM
1 Comments:
Your work on the bike map is a great step toward traffic calming. I'm on the Sustainable Saratoga Movement and Transportation committee. I am looking at reducing speed limits in neighborhood, putting in more stop signs, and discouraging truck traffic to form pedestrian friendly communities. Creating bike and pedestrian friendly streets, is more cost efficient than parking garages and moves us along the road to a sustainable city.
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