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 Stories About: bikes AND green living AND placemaking AND Portland AND Seattle
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More of what bike-friendly looks like
Blue lanes, cage locks, and cyclibraries |
Alan Durning |
31 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Separate bikeways are the lead actors in bike-friendly cities, but many supporting actors complete the cast: bikes on transit facilities, good traffic law enforcement, even bike 'lifts' on steep hills. Three more worth mentioning are blue lanes, parking cages, and cyclibraries. Blue lanes. (Photo courtesy of Jayson Antonoff, International Sustainable Solutions.) My youngest son often bikes to drama rehearsals. It's about three miles from our home in Seattle, ... |
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| Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics) |
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What "bike friendly" looks like
Is your town? |
Alan Durning |
19 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| What if cities had no sidewalks and everyone walked on the road? Or, for urban recreation, they walked on a few scenic trails? What if the occasional street had a three-foot-wide 'walking lane' painted on the asphalt, between the moving cars and the parked ones? Well, for starters, no one would walk much. A hardy few might brave the streets, but most would stop at 'walk?! in traffic?!' Fortunately, this car-head vision is fiction for most pedestrians, but it's not ... |
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| Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, Portland, Seattle, urban planning, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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