joejack951
07-10-07, 10:56 AM
Specifically, where have bike lane advocates successfully implemented bike lanes that protected cyclists' rights to the road, or had a bike lane added that reversed a former ban on cycling on a specific road?
Advocacy & Safety - Bike lane advocate success stories
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genec
07-10-07, 11:47 AM
How about where a bike lane opponent was able to improve a bike lane?
I'll clip out the real name... but check out this story:
Torrey Pines Road cycling route improved, By Helmet Head
The least steep route to the north out of La Jolla was greatly improved in May. Torrey Pines Road between UCSD (at the intersection with La Jolla Village Drive) down to Ardath Lane (by the fire station near “the throat” intersection) has been completely repaved. The new smooth pavement is a great improvement over the old.
In addition, Coalition Vice Chair Helmet Head used the opportunity to request that the new bike lanes be brought up to California MUTCD standards. With assistance from Jim Baross and Kathy Keehan, the emails and phone calls appear to have worked, as the new bike lanes are much wider than the old ones, and the traffic lanes are correspondingly narrower.
If you’ve been avoiding this route due to the pavement and narrow bike lane issues, you might want to give it another try.
I'll clip out the real name... but check out this story:
Torrey Pines Road cycling route improved, By Helmet Head
The least steep route to the north out of La Jolla was greatly improved in May. Torrey Pines Road between UCSD (at the intersection with La Jolla Village Drive) down to Ardath Lane (by the fire station near “the throat” intersection) has been completely repaved. The new smooth pavement is a great improvement over the old.
In addition, Coalition Vice Chair Helmet Head used the opportunity to request that the new bike lanes be brought up to California MUTCD standards. With assistance from Jim Baross and Kathy Keehan, the emails and phone calls appear to have worked, as the new bike lanes are much wider than the old ones, and the traffic lanes are correspondingly narrower.
If you’ve been avoiding this route due to the pavement and narrow bike lane issues, you might want to give it another try.
maddyfish
07-10-07, 12:11 PM
I don't know if this is what you wanted, but when I was on our city council I was successful in stopping plans to add a bike lane.
joejack951
07-10-07, 02:08 PM
I'm interested in a hypothetical story such as this: an arterial road is being built/upgraded/repaved and due to various factors, a decision was made to ban cyclists from the roadway and force them to use other alternative routes. No other slow moving vehicles were banned from the road and it still retains it's surface road status with no minimum speed limit. Bike lane advocates lobbied for a bike lane to be added to the road and cyclists rights to use the road were preserved, albeit restricted to the bike lane.
Or something along those lines.
I know of no stories like this but I was curious. I know of stories where people who are generally opposed to bike lanes retained cyclists rights to use certain roads when a ban was suggested even with the removal of a bike lane. I've also heard of bike lanes being installed on road adjacent to another road where a cyclist ban was enacted (a net loss of rights no matter how you look at it but something bike lane advocates might tout as a victory).
Or something along those lines.
I know of no stories like this but I was curious. I know of stories where people who are generally opposed to bike lanes retained cyclists rights to use certain roads when a ban was suggested even with the removal of a bike lane. I've also heard of bike lanes being installed on road adjacent to another road where a cyclist ban was enacted (a net loss of rights no matter how you look at it but something bike lane advocates might tout as a victory).
Scot_Gore
07-11-07, 07:11 AM
a decision was made to ban cyclists from the roadway and force them to use other alternative routes.
Where I live, banning cyclists from roadways dosn't happen. The only roads with bans are limited access freeways. Roads get built that are not "cyclist" friendly, some might call them "incomplete streets" but an actual ban is not in place. Most of the efforts I see is to improve the right of way to make it friendly to other users along the lines of the "complete streets" concept. Since there are no bans in place, advocacy efforts can't "lift the ban", but they do improve conditions for cycling on roads where efforts are successful.
Where I live, banning cyclists from roadways dosn't happen. The only roads with bans are limited access freeways. Roads get built that are not "cyclist" friendly, some might call them "incomplete streets" but an actual ban is not in place. Most of the efforts I see is to improve the right of way to make it friendly to other users along the lines of the "complete streets" concept. Since there are no bans in place, advocacy efforts can't "lift the ban", but they do improve conditions for cycling on roads where efforts are successful.