community bike shops need bikable roads
Fellow community shops,
We have been working on a good bikable community since our inception in 1996. We could not in good conscious work on getting more people on bikes without working on city design and street issues.
We have had success: changing 4-lane roads to 3-lane roads and putting in bike lanes in the reclaimed space, getting _single lane_ roundabouts instead of stop lights, narrowing 12' travel lanes to 10' which often helps get in bike lanes, changing parking lanes to bike lanes, connecting urban trails and increasing transit for instance.
Current projects include getting a downtown 'piazza' or car-free plaza, switching asphalt to pine resin or other alternative for bike walk trails, and- the hardest- working to stop a couple major roadway expansions and instead going with bike/walk/transit solutions. Our website and youtube channel has much more info. thanks.
Good bikes + good riders + good roads = bikable community.
That's really awesome. Bob. Do you have any work product (documents, planning strategies, etc) that you could share or post on the wiki? I'm sure many people reading this would be interested in the "hows" of your story also.
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
josh.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Bob Giordano mist@strans.org wrote:
Fellow community shops,
We have been working on a good bikable community since our inception in 1996. We could not in good conscious work on getting more people on bikes without working on city design and street issues.
We have had success: changing 4-lane roads to 3-lane roads and putting in bike lanes in the reclaimed space, getting _single lane_ roundabouts instead of stop lights, narrowing 12' travel lanes to 10' which often helps get in bike lanes, changing parking lanes to bike lanes, connecting urban trails and increasing transit for instance.
Current projects include getting a downtown 'piazza' or car-free plaza, switching asphalt to pine resin or other alternative for bike walk trails, and- the hardest- working to stop a couple major roadway expansions and instead going with bike/walk/transit solutions. Our website and youtube channel has much more info. thanks.
Good bikes + good riders + good roads = bikable community.
-- Bob Giordano Free Cycles Missoula 541.7284 Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation www.strans.org, mist@strans.org, 406.880.6834
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Bob,
Great to hear what you all are working on. Your work against roadway expansions called to mind freeway revoltshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_and_expressway_revolts, which have happened in cities worldwide and continue to happen as we speak. I was recently introduced to this type of community action through the workhttp://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Freeway_Revoltof Chris Carlson (whose Nowtopian http://www.nowtopians.com/ blog is excellent) and through participation in an ongoing, and successful, effort here in Guadalajara, México. I was surprised at how much expertise and information on best practices exists, so I wanted to encourage you all to build on past and present efforts in your work in Missoula and remember that success is possible. Thanks!
Dugan Meyer
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:12 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
That's really awesome. Bob. Do you have any work product (documents, planning strategies, etc) that you could share or post on the wiki? I'm sure many people reading this would be interested in the "hows" of your story also.
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
josh.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Bob Giordano mist@strans.org wrote:
Fellow community shops,
We have been working on a good bikable community since our inception in 1996. We could not in good conscious work on getting more people on bikes without working on city design and street issues.
We have had success: changing 4-lane roads to 3-lane roads and putting in bike lanes in the reclaimed space, getting _single lane_ roundabouts instead of stop lights, narrowing 12' travel lanes to 10' which often helps get in bike lanes, changing parking lanes to bike lanes, connecting urban trails and increasing transit for instance.
Current projects include getting a downtown 'piazza' or car-free plaza, switching asphalt to pine resin or other alternative for bike walk trails, and- the hardest- working to stop a couple major roadway expansions and instead going with bike/walk/transit solutions. Our website and youtube channel has much more info. thanks.
Good bikes + good riders + good roads = bikable community.
-- Bob Giordano Free Cycles Missoula 541.7284 Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation www.strans.org, mist@strans.org, 406.880.6834
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