At last, the second Price Tags in a New York triplet. The first was on Times Square. And, as promised, the second is on cycling.
You can download it here.
This is a celebration of active transportation in NYC – how New York is leading the way to the post-Motordom city. With an interesting comparison with Portland and Vancouver.
UPDATE: Portland just opened the newest addition to its bike network – a cycle track.
Mayor Sam Adams and Portland State University President Wim Wiewel today presented “the freshest take on bike lanes” — a one-way cycle track on Southwest Broadway near PSU’s campus.
The track is seven blocks long, and according to Adams, “removes” the conflict between cars and cyclists. It is essentially a wide bike lane that runs between the curb and parked cars, which means that bikers are separated from the flow of traffic. There’s also enough space between parked cars and bikers to prevent bikers from running into opened car doors.
Scott Bricker, executive director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance said that a 2005 study, Blueprint for Better Biking, showed many bikers wanted an auto-free experience. “People need to feel safe before they ride,” Bricker says. A cycle track gives a sense a protection, and will encourage more people to mount bikes, he says.
You say on page 27 that “the modal split … can reach 10%”. Oak Bay has already reached that point, but I wouldn’t call our facilities exactly bike rich. I think you are setting the bar too low. Facilities on the scale of New York have the capacity to reach far beyond 10%.
Since you clearly like footbridges, it’s a shame that your correspondent missed the Ward’s Island lift bridge.
I’d love to see Price Tags switched to a landscape-format so I can maximize it on my screen.
It’s probably a good size, though I always can read more. I was quite surrpised by this one – I hadn’t seen many pictures of the green routes with the fully separated bike lanes and then parking between them and the street. Those are brilliant, and there could certainly be a few more built in Vancouver and other cities.