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Tag Archives: bicycles
Cargo Bike Spotted…
…in semi-suburban Pacific Palisades. The bicycle revolution is slowly making its way to Los Angeles…
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Posted in Auto Independence, Bicycles, Culture, Sustainability, transit, Transportation, What if?
Tagged bicycle revolution, bicycles, cargo bikes, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades
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Growing Green in the Asphalt Jungle: Engineering Bikeability for Fun and Profit
Los Angeles is strapped for cash. Officials are resorting to the equivalent of digging under sofa cushions for change: ticketing unlicensed dog owners, cracking down with parking tickets, and raising Metro fares. But they’re going about it the wrong way — there’s gold right in LA’s streets, just waiting to be exploited. All that’s needed is a proper vision.
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Posted in Auto Independence, can bicycles save the world?, Culture, David Yoon, human scale, Livability, mashups, Placemaking, Transportation, urban design, urban planning, walkable, What if?
Tagged bicycle infrastructure, bicycles, bike friendly, bikeable, bikes, David Yoon, Los Angeles, mashups, Melrose Avenue, Santa Monica, street conversion, streets for people, Third Street Promenade, urban infill, walkable
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Build it and They Will Ride: The Importance of Bicycle Networks
While the bicycle shed is an important conceptual planning tool, it is meaningless without the physical development of bicycle infrastructure. Therefore, each bicycle shed should not be conceived in isolation, but as part of a regional bikeway network. This network should be designed to connect people to important destinations—schools, neighborhood centers, regional centers, open space, and of course, local and regional transit systems.
In general, the bicycle network should be comprised of many bikeways types. These include, but are not limited to shared-use paths, shared lanes (sharrows), bicycle boulevards, bicycle lanes, and physically separated bicycle lanes—sometimes called cycle tracks.
Before assigning bikeway types, the unique characteristics of each thoroughfare and its urban context must be considered holistically. This includes analyzing street width, street type, existing land use and urban form, density, traffic control devices, posted speed limits and actual travel speeds, and traffic volume.
But while the existing conditions of each thoroughfare are important, the urban context is rarely static. Therefore, considering the desired character and urban context is critical to the selection process, as context-specific bikeways can help strengthen a more immersive, accessible, and equitable urban environment. Continue reading
Posted in Auto Independence, can bicycles save the world?, Climate Change, Culture, human scale, Livability, Placemaking, Sustainability, technology, transit, Transportation, urban design, urban planning, walkable, What if?
Tagged bicycle networks, bicycles, bike boulevards, bike friendly streets, bike infrastructure, bike paths, bikes, bikeways, cycle tracks, David Byrne, earl blumenauer, fort worthology, Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City, portland
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Fitter, Happier, More Productive: The Health, Social, and Economic Benefits of Bikes
Riding a bike makes people and cities fitter, happier, and more productive. Don’t believe me? Here are oodles of studies that prove what common sense should already tell us. Continue reading
Posted in Auto Independence, can bicycles save the world?, Climate Change, Culture, human scale, Livability, Placemaking, Sustainability, Transportation, Uncategorized, urban design, urban planning, walkable, What if?
Tagged bicycles, bike boulevards, bikes, can bicycles save the world?, community, economics, health, impact of cycling
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Imagining a City Built for Bicycles
A lot is made, and rightfully so, of the differences between walkable cities and auto-dependent cities, but isn’t there a middle way? Truly walkable cities, like most medieval walled cities and their small town USA descendents, aren’t really cities in the modern context. They can’t accommodate the scale and diversity we now associate with a city. Auto-dependent cities handle scale and diversity just fine, but they disconnect people from the built environment and each other. But what if we built our cities for bicycles? What would that look like? What benefits and drawbacks would this model have?
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Posted in architecture, Auto Independence, can bicycles save the world?, Culture, human scale, Josh Grigsby, Livability, Placemaking, transit, Transportation, Uncategorized, urban design, urban planning, walkable, What if?
Tagged accessibility, air pollution, autodependence, beach cruiser, bicycles, bikability, brooklyn, built environment, Cambridge, classism, college town, complete ecosystems, concrete jungle, cooperation, Copenhagen, crime deterrent, denmark, Euclidean zoning, human scale, Los Angeles, low density, manhattan, Massachusetts, medieval walled cities, mixed-use, mobility, modern cities, noise pollution, norway, obesity, para-transit, permeable pavers, population density, portland, Providence, rhode island, San Francisco, seattle, social change, sunbelt, sustainable settlements, Switzerland, trampe, transit, trondheim, urban core, urban density, vancouver, walkability, working bikes, Zurich
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