La ville de #Québec devient une ville #cyclable, assez pour avoir un meme :) #BikePaths #BikeLane #BikeTooter

HEY, I know that path!

Some #ottBike content in this #StrongTowns piece on #BikePaths #MUP.

Nice to see Mastodon content grow and interests overlap.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/13/multi-use-paths-stroads-active-transportation-infrastructure
#UrbanPlanning #Cycling #BikeInfrastructure #ottawa

Update on the Shrine to Sea project
https://www.ppbug.org/bug-blog/2023/7/7/update-on-shrine-to-sea-project-july-2023

We asked the S2S team how the protected bike lane on Kerferd Rd, Albert Park, could progress, now that it's been "separated" from the S2S project. In short: there is no concrete plan, just vague "ongoing discussions".

#melbourne #cycling #BikePaths #ClimateEmergency

Just when #Bellingen expands the 50s infrastructure road widening program without #footpaths or #bikepaths the news hits:
Private vehicle usage must be halved to cut emissions, Climate Council says
"Australia should aim to reduce transport emissions by 75 per cent by 2030
Public and active transport needs to triple to meet that goal
Eighty-one per cent of trips are made in private vehicles across Australia, but the report says that would need to drop to 36 per cent by the end of the decade.
That would mean 49 per cent of trips would have to occur on public transport and 15 per cent through active transit.
At the moment the average Australian household has two petrol cars in the garage.
One of the easier solutions would be to increase reliable #ElectricBusServices rather than working on larger infrastructure projects." Excerpt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-22/climate-council-transport-report-more-public-active-transport/102374038
#ElectricBuses #ESharing #PrivateVehicles #Roads #HighwayToEmissionsHell #PublicTransport #FootTraffic #ActiveTransport #Transition #ClimateAction

Can we afford great #transit without #fares? Yep.
Can we afford safe #BikePaths to every school? Yep.
Can we afford wide, #accessible #sidewalks along every #street? Yep.
Can we afford to buy every household an #EBike? Yep.

But instead we choose to subsidize #driving, and treat everything else as an expensive, frivolous amenity.

King St by far has the most potential to run a #tram line right in the middle with a shared bus/car lane flanking each side, reducing this to one lane each way, while removing street parking (which, according to a study in 2017, is only used 10-20% of the time).

Walking there right now is noisy, dusty and overall highly unpleasant. The #bikepaths go through Jacques-Cartier Park, which is far removed from traffic.

#sherbrooke #urbanism #streetdesign

Continuing from last week, @MichaelleMagnum and I wrote some more on #cycling, this time primarily on why some countries have a cycling #gender gap, while others do not have one. This time, we mainly focus on international evidence, but we also threw in some citations for #Alberta because we love it so much!

#Calgary #Edmonton #Lethbridge #Spain #Norway #health #safety #environment #BikePaths #bicycles #transit

https://rideon.substack.com/p/potential-explanations-for-the-gender

Really happy they're building new #CycleWays in my neighbourhood. Looking forward to safe riding!
#BikePaths #Cycling #Sydney

This looks like an excellent model for other cities: "In 2019, Cambridge City Council passed the Cycling Safety Ordinance, which requires the construction of separated bike lanes when streets are being reconstructed as a part of the City’s Five-Year Plan for Streets and Sidewalks and they have been designated for greater separation in the Bicycle Network Vision." #biketooter #bikepaths #urbanism #bikesafety #bikes4transport https://www.cambridgema.gov/streetsandtransportation/policiesordinancesandplans/cyclingsafetyordinance

@natera I'm sending your blog post and paper to a member of our #bike coalition who is handy with python, we will try this for Québec city, to help us advocate for certain new #bikepaths ! #urbanism

I'm visiting my son in Canberra this weekend (he's a postdoc at ANU). Much as lots of people (including me) like to joke about Canberra, comparing it to a dinky country town instead of a national capital, it's a very pleasant place to visit There's a lot of greenery, and lots of bike paths, which my son and I enjoyed this afternoon on e-scooters. I hadn't been to Canberra for years but I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed visiting.

#canberra #visit #scooters #bikepaths #greenspaces

Best new #BikePaths in the U.S. - https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/the-best-new-u.s.-bike-lanes

The #HousingCrisis is very much a #RoadSafety issue. The only way to reduce serious & fatal #traffic #crashes is to reduce the amount of #KineticEnergy being transfered among roadway users.
Best way to do that? Reduce our dependence on big, heavy, fast cars.
Best way to do that? Build #communities & #infrastructure that help people get out of cars and onto #sidewalks, #BikePaths, & #transit.
Best way to do that? Build more housing for more people in more places that don't require a #car.

@consected @GreenFire @MatthewToad42 Most agree that reducing car use and increasing bike use is good for #Climate. But most are also stuck on that binary bike/car without considering the full spectrum between the two. #EV #MicroMobility should be a bigger part of the conversation. Simple, efficient bike-like vehicles can be #OpenSource, enclosed and even have heat and A/C with an order of magnitude reduced impact. Separating fast/heavy and slow/light traffic is key (expanding protected #BikePaths).

I will tell you the same thing I have told everybody else I have come across that somehow has in in their mind that bicycles are an answer to anything. Only a small minority of the population really enjoys riding a #bicycle on a regular basis. Beyond that small percentage, the people who ride bikes do so because they feel they have no other better options, or they only do it during the nice summer/fall days for recreation. The problems with #bikes are they do not shield you from the elements, they limit the range you can comfortably travel, it is nearly impossible to bring home a couple bags of groceries or any significant purchase from a bricks-and-mortar store on a bike, and they offer virtually no protection if you are in a collision with a larger vehicle.

But more to the point, when Americans feel threatened with the idea that they might be forced to use a bicycle for basic transportation, they blame the "damn liberals" (even though a lot of people who are liberal on most other issues hate the idea of using anything other than a car to get around with every fiber of their being, though they will not say that to their liberal friends). So if and when Americans get it in their heads that "the libs" are going to try to force them to give up their car and ride a bike, they will vote for the worst Republican running, because they know that one thing Republicans will NEVER do is try to take people out of their cars, they are too beholden to big oil. Nobody ever wants to talk about it this way, but I will bet that close elections have been lost because a certain percentage of voters sees the Democrats as the party that wants to take their car away, and they might even be right to feel that way about some of the far-left elements in the party. Viewed that way, it's not a win/win, it's a lose/lose because it helps elect people who will never expand #BikePaths and who will continue to support the fossil fuel industry, and who are just terrible people in general.
QT: https://techhub.social/@garykrysztopik/109728963454610309

I will tell you the same thing I have told everybodfy else I have come across that somehow has in in their mind that bicycles are an answer to anything. Only a small minority of the population really enjoys riding a #bicycle on a regular basis. Beyond that small percentage, the people who ride bikes do so because they feel they have no other better options, or they only do it during the nice summer/fall days for recreation. The problems with #bikes are they do not shield you from the elements, they limit the range you can comfortably travel, it is nearly impossible to bring home a couple bags of groceries or any significant purchase from a bricks-and-mortar store on a bike, and they offer virtually no protection if you are in a collision with a larger vehicle.

But more to the point, when Americans feel threatened with the idea that they might be forced to use a bicycle for basic transportation, they blame the "damn liberals" (even though a lot of people who are liberal on most other issues hate the idea of using anything other than a car to get around with every fiber of their being, though they will not say that to their liberal friends). So if and when Americans get it in their heads that "the libs" are going to try to force them to give up their car and ride a bike, they will vote for the worst Republican running, because they know that one thing Republicans will NEVER do is try to take people out of their cars, they are too beholden to big oil. Nobody ever wants to talk about it this way, but I will bet that close elections have been lost because a certain percentage of voters sees the Democrats as the party that wants to take their car away, and they might even be right to feel that way about some of the far-left elements in the party. Viewed that way, it's not a win/win, it's a lose/lose because it helps elect people who will never expand #BikePaths and who will continue to support the fossil fuel industry, and who are just terrible people in general.
QT: https://techhub.social/@garykrysztopik/109728963454610309

@Alexandrad1 @bikolinux I like to point out that we don't need 5,000 lbs of steel and battery #EV to go back and forth to work or to run to the store ... except to protect us from all the other 5,000 lb steel boxes. So now the only safe way forward is to separate fast/heavy traffic from slow/light. It's called "right-sized" transportation or #MicroMobility. Expanded #BikePaths are key.

@Alexandrad1 We can create a better economic system with #OpenSource #MicroManufacturing of #MicroMobility to address #Climate while helping underserved communities. Small local shops can use shared designs to build simple #Ebike type vehicles. It's a win/win in so many ways. But it will never get support from top-down. Expanded #BikePaths can help this transition.

Went to the supermarket on my bike today. A lot quicker than a car. Easier to park.

The only thing is that here in #Lincolnshire #UK I don't see anyone else going on a bike. It is not seen as 'normal'.

The irony is that the local council spend a fair amount of money on #bikepaths which are unusable. Just up the way there is a bike crossing which is dangerous & unusable, but the works must have cost the best part of a £1million to install.

#cycling #bikes #greenTransport #community #eco

@philipthalis @stufromoz it would be lovely to add a #cycleway. #Bikepaths and #GreenSpaces and better better #UrbanPlanning for #walkability too!