This came into my RSS feed this morning and it is chock-a-block full of juicy ideas and information.
How about the fact that San Francisco has seen a 71% increase in cycling in the last 5 years, or that they have a cycling goal of 20% of all trips by bicycle by 2020, or that they have built 20 miles of bike lanes in the last 1.5 years, which are “instantly flooded with cyclists”.
The tactical urbanism ideas that have shown such huge popularity – check out the ‘parklet’ idea – wouldn’t these be fabulous down High Street in the interim before they ‘share space’ it?
Dynamic pricing parking meters … it makes money and people love it!
And lastly, Sunday streets just sooo needs to happen in Auckland – education for all and really fun!
But I thought San Francisco was too hilly for cycling
love it, the combination of street space and density makes it work,
those micro parks could work in places like Dominion or Sandringham Roads, but for the bus lanes
I like the open mindedness of “we’ll steal ideas from anywhere else and also innovate on our own”, sadly much Auckland transport thinking suffers from not invevted here syndrome
Rad!!! I agree with MoreCityPlease, it’s far too hilly HERE, it could never work : /
I really like the folding barrier posts on the cycle lanes! it would stop cars using them, of course the lanes would need to be wide enough in the first place!
Paul, the flexible barrier posts are being considered by AT for a number of projects around Auckland at the moment, so hopefully we will see some cycle lanes protected in that manner here too.
I am very happy for you Californians, I congratulate you for being so active and involved. Here in Austin we are trying to be like San Francisco one day. I wish our city officials look at your success closer and learn what it takes to be a real bike friendly city. What did you do to convinced city planners to put barrier posts on bike lines?