My town has gone bike CRAZY!
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My town has gone bike CRAZY!
2 Weeks ago I read that Woodbury N.J. had gotten a state grant for $150,000 that they were going to use for a bike trail and bridge to conect with a pedestrian bridge over the Woodbury Creek. Then a week later I read the state plans to change st. rt. 45 AKA Broad st. They are supposed to change it from 4 lanes to 2 lanes with a central left turn lane and add bike lanes on both sides. This in a county that to my knowledge has NO bike lanes of any kind. Wow!
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That is so cool! I hope this is the trend to come.
In Detroit we have 1 short bike lane in front of GM (of all places) that is used for a taxi stand!
I think it was for a photo shoot to make GM look good!
In Detroit we have 1 short bike lane in front of GM (of all places) that is used for a taxi stand!
I think it was for a photo shoot to make GM look good!
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yea, that is a valet sign without a sign in the middle of the bike lane! I have a sticker just for it I think i should use and take a photo of that! This is on my way home from work.
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I generally take any sign I find placed in a bike lane and toss it into whatever ditch or shrubbery happens to be nearby. If I'm feeling nice I'll just toss it on the shoulder.
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That body of water is awfully close to that sign... be a shame if it somehow or another ended up in it, floating away.
I generally take any sign I find placed in a bike lane and toss it into whatever ditch or shrubbery happens to be nearby. If I'm feeling nice I'll just toss it on the shoulder.
I generally take any sign I find placed in a bike lane and toss it into whatever ditch or shrubbery happens to be nearby. If I'm feeling nice I'll just toss it on the shoulder.
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OMG, ha ha ha that is the Detroit river and that sign is at the front door of GM so it is protected by security, Det police, the coast guard and home land sec!!! You should have seen it when I stoped the other day to take this picture! I was surrounded by 3 people with radio's talking to other people saying stuf like "yea, we are talking to him now". So make sure you pay your taxes to take care of people like us when we think to much!
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O yea and if you lock your bike in front of GM they wont say a thing. But when you come back 10 min later you find out they cut your lock and are going to put it in the police pound! They will not give it back to you and you have to go to the police dept and be told you are a security risk! DETROIT HATES BIKES?
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Oh goody, goody, more glass and other debris to ride through as motorist yell, "get off the road, get in the bike lane"!
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I like bike lanes on busy streets; coming down University Avenue out of UH Manoa, that little lane does make me feel a lot safer. The predictability it implies delights.
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Now this is a pedestrian Bridge. This is In omaha And ive been on it a few times its pretty cool. Big waist of GOV money tho.
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Just heard on the news this morning that Boston is lagging behind the rest of the country.
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I haven't been riding on the bridge yet - I'd like to some day, but hate to drive to bike anymore...and I'm 20+ miles from it...streets going east/west in Omaha are not really friendly, but can be done...
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Sounds like Woodbury, N.J., is gonna get a lot of bang for $150,000. I mean, a trail, a bridge ... they should teach other city governments how to do that ... or maybe they need to recheck their math.
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Then tell GM that if it's not removed immediately that you will be contacting your local newspaper and TV station telling them how GM is trying to discourage biking by bold-faced blocking bike lanes in a sad attempt to get people to buy their crappy cars.
Also contact your local community board and tell them about it too.
It's up to YOU to get the word out and "persuade" GM to act legally and responsibly since they can't seem to be able to do it by themselves. This is putting YOUR safety at risk the second you have to now dive into traffic or swerve to avoid the sign.
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We have a couple U-shaped racks adjacent to the curb of a few major arterials. Problem is, I live in a suburb where every major building (grocery stores, dept. stores, schools, community center) is set back at least a 1-3 minutes' walk from the road.