Category: #visionzero

Should Cyclists Have to Stop at Stop Signs?

Should Cyclists Have to Stop at Stop Signs?
City Lab
10/6/2015

A proposal to make San Francisco the first major city to adopt the so-called “Idaho stop” is under intense debate. […] Comparisons of Boise to comparable cities without the Idaho stop, such as Sacramento, showed that Boise was significantly safer for people on bikes, with collision rates for bike commuters up to 60 percent lower. […]

San Diego Bicycle Coalition Petition – SUPPORT BIKE LANES ON CORONADO STREETS

San Diego Bicycle Coalition Petition – SUPPORT BIKE LANES ON CORONADO STREETS

Show that Coronado residents are interested in improving conditions for kids, commuters, recreational cyclists and others to safely ride bikes through the streets of our little Island.

Some Background Information:

San Diego Union Tribune
9/24/15
Bike lane backlash in CoronadoResident complaints prompt city to halt further striping, frustrating bike advocates and other residents

[…] The Coronado City Council voted last week to halt construction of several previously approved bike lanes after residents called the striping “graffiti,” complained the lanes could cause vertigo and compared their effect on streets to young people getting “completely body tattooed.” […]

Salt Lake City street removes parking, adds bike lanes and sales go up

Salt Lake City street removes parking, adds bike lanes and sales go up
People For Bikes
10/5/2015

[…] In an in-house study of its new protected bike lane, Salt Lake City found that when parking removal was done as part of a wide-ranging investment in the streetscape — including street planters, better crosswalks, public art and colored pavement — it converted parking spaces to high-quality bike lanes and boosted business at the same time. […]

Paris's 'Day Without Cars' The radical experiment to cut smog appears to have worked.

Paris’s ‘Day Without Cars’ The radical experiment to cut smog appears to have worked.
City lab
10/6/15

[…] The single-day initiative made 30 percent of the city’s roads off-limits to automobiles, but even that minor reduction in traffic was enough to cut pollution levels—and noise—significantly.

The Guardian reports that according to Airparif, which measures city pollution levels, some parts of Paris registered 40 percent less nitrogen dioxide (which produces smog) in the air on September 27. […]

Uneasy Rider Bike-Wise, New York Is No Amsterdam

Uneasy RiderBike-Wise, New York Is No Amsterdam
9/28/15
Wall Street Journal

[…] But one reason I wasn’t tempted to mount the sturdy-looking bikes earlier is because they would seem to pose risks even more pressing than those of a cardiovascular nature.

Namely, that you could get thrown head over heels by a car door opening unexpectedly in your path, or crushed under the wheels of a tractor-trailer. […]

Bike lane backlash in Coronado

Bike lane backlash in Coronado
UT San Diego
9/24/15

[…] The Coronado City Council voted last week to halt construction of several previously approved bike lanes after residents called the striping “graffiti,” complained the lanes could cause vertigo and compared their effect on streets to young people getting “completely body tattooed.”

The move comes just a few weeks after a “Save Our Beach” petition drive by residents prompted the council to nix studying a proposal to add a Mission Beach-style protected bicycle path along congested Ocean Boulevard. […]