How much do you a) drive, b) walk/bicycle/etc, or c) take transit?
https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social/post/3meprayyfsk2l

#ModeShift #transit #SafeStreets #walkability

When we talk about replacing car trips with bicycle trips people often think of commutes to work and that has been the focus of the state government because people riding bicycles to work means less peak hour traffic.

But the low hanging fruit for mode shift to bicycles is in trips in the 0-2km range. These are distances that a lot of people will just walk, but a huge number of people are still driving and very few people are riding bicycles.

They're distances that are often awkward and slow to use public transport for but are only a few minutes on a bicycle.

There is surprisingly less investment in enabling these kinds of trips by bicycle and they're often the trips where the existing infrastructure fails you the most even though the infrastructure for these trips is the cheapest to deliver.

The new big green Veloway is expensive infrastructure that is targeting trips in the 5-10km range but you can see that there are relatively few of those kinds of trips.

#Melbourne #Bicycles #ModeShift

source:
https://public.tableau.com/views/VISTA-Trips/Tripdistance

I keep thinking that #sfmuni should look at how to reduce travel times on key routes. I first saw how the Chicago L had a skip-stop strategy ( an A and a B train that shared a stop every few stations) and how it reduced travel times. Now I read about #Superloop buses to reduce travel times, to great acclaim, it appears.

Can SF learn from these examples? It's essential to greater mode shift.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/26/superloop-bees-network-onboard-england-new-bus-routes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#transit #bus #modeshift

Hey BC folks! If you have a bike, get out and ride this week! It's GoByBike Week! You don't even have to take it to work, you can Go By Bike anywhere! The Park, the Store, just around the block.

Get out there and have fun. And when you come back, register your ride on the website and you'll be entered to win some great prizes!

#GoByBike #GoByBikeWeek #BCPoli #ActiveTransportation #Bike #Cycling #Commute #ModeShift

https://gobybikebc.ca

Cancelled Auckland light rail twice as beneficial as new roads approved by government

https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-1266-1277-443a-15b537891727

This screenshot from a recent staff preso summarizes counts taken by the county at seven intersections in Alameda, conducted every 2 years between 2016 and 2022. Staff believes the impressive 57% increase of bicyclists is due predominantly to the opening of the Cross Alameda Trail along Appezzato, where two of the count sites are located. They also saw increases in walking at those two sites, but those increases were offset by pedestrian decreases at other intersections, lowering the total pedestrian count.

Imagine what these counts will look like once the Cross Alameda Trail is complete!

Imagine the mode shift we’ll see when our Low Stress Network is complete!

#IfYouBuildItTheyWillCome
#greeninfrastructure #modeshift #lowstressnetwork #crossalamedatrail

New study ranks cities by bike friendliness. Pretty cool: https://listwithclever.com/research/most-bike-friendly-cities-us/#ranking-50

And has good details on ranking within subcategories.

#biking #bikelife #vmt #modeshift #cities