WA may be getting new highways — for bicyclists

While Washington State has been struggling to fund most of its major transportation projects, the chair of the state Senate Transportation Committee says financing a statewide bikeway system is cheap enough to pull off. The project would connect our existing major bike paths across the state—the Burke-Gilman, Palouse to Cascades, Eastrail, and Spokane’s Centennial—for less than $50 million over two years. It’s orders of magnitude cheaper than car infrastructure AND better for our environment.

Unpaywalled link to Seattle Times article
https://archive.ph/1i8I5

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#Denver’s Dept of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) is planning for better connected and more comfortable bikeways on safe, slow streets in the city. Denver's Future Bikeways Map is being updated to identify locations for new bikeways and to plan upgrades to existing bikeways over time.

We would like your feedback on a draft map of Denver's future #bikeway network. Your input will be used to finalize Denver's map of future safe and slow streets with bikeways.

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I do not want anyone to read, at my funeral, that I knew I was going to be killed by a car running into me on my #bicycle.

I want a cheap retrofit to roads to make an elevated #bikeway above it.

A set of aluminum girder H frames, some kind of light/smooth modular surface with thermal expansion joints maybe. I don't care. It's gotta be cheap, easy, safe, and #cyclists can put it together.

If I am dead, words don't help. Design this. Guerrilla build if you must.

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🚴‍♀️NEW🚴‍♀️
On Tuesday, March 12, starting at 6:30 p.m., MCDOT will hold a virtual public information meeting to discuss the initial concepts of the Cherry Hill Road #Bikeway Project in Silver Spring, Maryland.

For more details and to register to participate in this virtual meeting ▶️ https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=44816&Dept=50
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