Tag: center city bike lane network

March 29, 2016

2nd Ave ‘pilot’ bike lane getting permanent treatment, expect detours

When the 2nd Ave protected bike lane opened in October 2014, it was created using mostly paint and movable plastic posts because the city considered it a “pilot” project. Well, it’s been about a year and a half, and now it’s hard to imagine what biking downtown was like without it. So it’s officially becoming…
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tagged: 2nd ave, center city bike lane network, connect downtown, downtown, sdot
July 23, 2015

Downtown traffic violence is a public health emergency we haven’t been treating

It’s not news that downtown streets are the scene of a huge number of serious traffic injuries and deaths. But this map at a recent open house still caught me completely off-guard. At first, I thought it was a map of the past ten years. How awful, so many lives ended or dramatically altered. Then…
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tagged: center city bike lane network, downtown, protected bike lanes