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Bike Lanes From Around the World
By spokesman | February 5, 2010
The Huffington Post recently published a slide show featuring bike lanes from around the world. Although the slide show did feature one fictitious bike lane, the real ones illustrate how bike lanes can be integrated into cities and make bike commuting much safer and easier. The slide show gave me some potential ideas from my neighborhood. In the Washington DC area, many of the suburban metro stations are surrounded by large roads. During the morning rush hour, these roads are busy and are dangerous for cyclists. The result is that the garages are filled with cars that are driven by who live within 1 or 2 miles of the station. Many potential commuters who could take the metro drive instead because they can’t park at the metro. If the stations were more bike accessible, it would free up parking spaces and increase ridership. A network of bicycle lanes radiating out from the station would be cheaper to build than more parking garages.
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Topics: Bike Commuting |