"What does change your mind... one little ride... not scary at all actually... safe and fun. It's like #London was invisible to me until just this past year"
"such a more enjoyable experience, rather than... a necessary evil" #BikeTooter #ProtectedBikeways #BikewayNetwork #transportation #urbanism #transit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmf6aEx09Oo

I Cycled 2500km in London โ€” Here's How It Changed My Life

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The Street Trust (@thestreettrust.org)

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David Ho (@[email protected])

Cars ruin cities in more ways than just running people over. Paris has reduced air pollution by 50-55% over the past 20 years through policies limiting traffic and banning polluting vehicles. https://wapo.st/4cu5s8j

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Tactical network-level changes like cut-thru traffic diversion and bus-turn-only road diets are badly needed if we want to actually connect a usable low-stress #bikewayNetwork and not waste the next decade on more non-progress like rebuilding Hawthorne or flashing beacons on 82nd. Drop in hardware, take feedback, and iterate, not this narrow, overpriced, too-little-too-late stuff like around Tilikum, Naito, and soon SW 4th. #tacticalUrbanism like Jersey City, Paris, Seville, Amsterdam 50yrs ago

This video constantly has people on bikes going by in the background because they made a NETWORK of low-stress connected bike lanes, with space and existing pavement that was not efficiently used by cars. It goes where you want to go without having to elbow your way into car traffic... for short trips, why wouldn't you bike? #ClimateAction #CarsRuinCities #BikewayNetwork #BanCars #CarsStink #GeometryHatesCars #TacticalUrbanism #PublicSpace #Bollards #FuckCars #JFDI

https://youtu.be/f2xAzyQQDHk

How to find space for bike lanes in clogged cities

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for only 33 cents per household, the foundations of a citywide #BikewayNetwork

https://youtu.be/KBvBw8kk7bw

This northern city is spending $100M to improve cycling. Can your city too?

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"[114 mile] series of new and improved bike lanes will cover 17 corridors ... is meant to help the city reach its goal of 15% of trips being done by bike within 10 years" hey #pdxBikes is #Portland still going for that 25% they #ClimateAction-pinkie-promised? Count how many times you see 4-lane stroads in this video. It's not a "$4B backlog". Connect #PopUpBikeLanes into a #bikewayNetwork like Montreal (and Paris, and Amsterdam etc before them) or sit in traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEkYnwUEOX0

Montreal's Exciting New Express Bike Network (Le REV)

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@BarbChamberlain good points, you might extend that notion of the people network to the connected #BikewayNetwork and the decade of scrapped-together prototype streets that it's going to take for us to survive fossil fuels. It's not the "sidewalk network will take 160 years to build" stack of capital project plans and cast-in-place concrete curbs and ramps they want to pour. It's planter boxes and modular barriers, pop-up car-free routes to school, traffic diversion/filtering, it's people.
@shanie most people wish #transit ran fast and frequently enough to make them want to ride it, but aren't going to walk 4 miles in a ditch and cross a stroad to catch a 30-60 min bus that gets stuck in traffic. The key to unlocking suburban transit is a fully connected low stress #BikewayNetwork and secure parking + bikeshare availability at every station. Creates 4x radius = 16x as much area with access to transit vs walking, besides unclogging streets by removing school-run/ grocery cars etc
Cities' elected officials love to talk about prioritizing transit but most of them don't have a lever to pull on for that. Getting cars out of the way of bikes and buses *is* something within reach. And if your city ever finally takes bikes seriously, enough people will be able to actually access transit. Politics/funding of #parking, #transit, #landUse, all works itself out once you connect and maintain a low-stress #bikewayNetwork. Wishing won't get us there, because #geometryHatesCars