This video is a few days old, so some of you may have seen it already, but here it is on the blog just in case… My ride on part of the new York Boulevard bike lane with some commentary. The bike lane is greatly appreciated but I wish we would further improve them. A smooth, colored bike lane would do wonders to increase physical and subjective safety of cyclists on York.
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Video: York Blvd Bike Lane
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bicycle, Bike Lane, Highland Park, Video, York Boulevard on January 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Not Your Typical Suburban Street
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bicycle, Bicycle Path, East Bay, Video, Walk on December 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When one hears the word ‘suburb’, great tracts of land with single family homes in an isolated area, with a car dependent population springs to mind. While not all suburbs fit this description it is fair to say the ‘suburban’ image many of us have exists for a reason. Why do I mention this? While I am away from Eagle Rock for this school semester I have been living in the Bay Area. In Point Richmond there’s a new suburban development that is built around a large regional bike and pedestrian path The Bay Trail, contrary to suburbs many of us are familiar with.
In the video below I ride most of the Bay Trail portion through this suburban development. While there are improvements that could be made to the path in the video like: maintaining the path, provide the path priority at intersections (and not all the unnecessary stop signs), create better crossings (perhaps raised crossings). I feel like the concept of a shared bike/ped path through a suburban development raises interesting points to think about like– should we designed new developments to provide bicycle infrastructure? Should we reconfigure designs for sidewalks so that they can be shared between cyclists and pedestrians without conflict? If bicycle paths that resemble what is observed in the video were provided on city streets would conditions be safer for cyclists? (Obviously design at intersections determines how safe the cycle path will be).
Any thoughts on what is in the video? Any place in Eagle Rock or LA where you would like to see this? We know how to make the infrastructure to provide safe facilities for cyclists as is evident in the video, lets make more!
