oh california...
2012-08-16 19:31:28
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San Jose paints 8 miles of buffered bike lanes downtown
San Jose has just done something unheard of in Silicon Valley – the city converted car lanes on several blocks of 3th, 4th, 10th, and 11th streets in downtown, all busy one-way streets with 3 lanes in each direction – a total of 8 miles [1] – to extra wide bike lanes separated by painted buffers from the remaining two lanes of vehicle traffic. What’s going on?
San Jose’s New Buffered Bike Lanes Benefit Everyone
2012-08-16 17:57:36
2012-08-16 19:36:34
And to think, we can't even get signs saying you have to pass with 4'...
2012-08-16 22:41:40
But we can get signs telling us what streets not to ride on
2012-08-17 01:09:34
That is cool, although "unheard of in Silicon Valley" is a stretch considering Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Mountain View, and Palo Alto are all "Bike Friendly Communities" and have a ton of bike infrastructure already.
That being said I don't necessarily feel safer riding there than I do here and the amount of car traffic they have is absolutely ridiculous. Think McKnight Road with bike lanes and you're in the right ballpark.
2012-08-17 17:53:45
My sister lived in SJ for about 20 years, and I tried not to pay much attention when they drove me around. It's is like McNightmare road, but faster.
Good for them, they're trying to figure it out as best they can too. I like that councilman's style.
2012-08-17 18:34:28