Posts Tagged ‘traffic calming’

Make cycling faster than driving, and the masses will come If you’ve read this site much, you will know that I am a big proponent of bicycle infrastructure. I think our economic security and long term quality of life depends on shifting people away from the car-dependent, resource sucking lifestyle of the last 65 years. [...]

Yesterday, I shared a campaign going on in England to lower the speed limits on residential streets to 20 MPH. BikePortland also picked up the story and shared this striking image on stopping distances of a car in ideal conditions if a child suddenly jumped out in the street. Going up to just 25 MPH [...]

StreetFilms recently shared this film from England where there is a concerted effort to reduce the vehicle speeds in residential streets to 20 MPH. Proponents argue that the slower speed makes the streets more welcoming to pedestrians and cyclists, reduces fatalities, and increases property values. They make a compelling case including some heart wrenching footage [...]

League of Bicycling Voter’s President blasts City of watered down bike boulevard proposal Today, City staff will release the initial recommendation on Austin’s first bicycle boulevard, and League of Bicycling Voter President Rob D’Amico pulled no punches in his displeasure in the plan. “First they took the word ‘Nueces’ out and began calling it the [...]

Pro-business economist Angelos Angelou hired to do economic analysis Yesterday, the City of Austin put out a release announcing updates to the bicycle boulevard planning process. Noticably missing are now are the words Nueces Street. I drew some criticism by publishing a remark from un-named city staff about Nueces being dead, but it appears these [...]

Last night, the City of Austin held its second in a three part series of open houses on the proposed bicycle boulevard on Nueces Street. While city staff maintained publicly that all options were still on the table,  a source told A2W that a high level city staffer communicated to cycling advocates that Nueces as [...]

After a contentious first public meeting on the conversion of Nueces Street downtown into a bicycle boulevard, the League of Bicycling Voters got together in mid-December to hammer out a cycling community proposal for this project. Much of the objections from property owners stems from uncertainty of the physical and economic impact this traffic calming [...]

Given the overwhelming support for the Austin Master Bike Plan and successful recent implementation of new bicycle infrastructure, it was a bit surprising to hear the vocal opposition to the City of Austin plan to convert Nueces Street to a bicycle boulevard. Time and again both at the meeting and in the press, we heard [...]

This  Streetfilms video about Madison Square in New York has a lot of footage of citizen feedback, better illustrations of what was actually done to an area of chaotic, wide roads to transform the area into a great space for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists alike. It shows what can be accomplished with a minimal budget [...]