Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition
Transportation Equity in Our City
Great idea! In case you don’t know what an LPI is and how they make crossing a street safer for pedestrians, check out this great short video and you’ll see how they make it safer for bicyclists too!
“NYC DOT has been implementing hundreds of LPIs (Leading Pedestrian Intervals) each year as part of the city’s Vision Zero initiative. The agency will study the results of letting cyclists use LPIs (first proposed by Council Member Carlos Menchaca), before deciding whether to make it permanent policy and expand the rule to other intersections.”
APCSC would like to advocate that Asbury Park include LPIs into the plan for Main Street, and include bicyclists’ signage.
Watch Video:
http://www.streetfilms.org/at-some-red-lights-in-nyc-cyclists-now-get-head-start/
A tech invention to enable people to spend quality time in a park without interacting with other people or with nature? Is it plausible that Mark Zuckerberg would resign from Face Book to help people interact in person rather than online…?
Asbury Park is perfectly situated to develop world class bike and pedestrian infrastucture that serves everyone with the reconfiguration of Main Street and redevelopment of the city’s south west neighborhood. Here’s a book for American cities to use for inspiration.
Mikael Colville-Andersen writes the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism
“It is all about the redemocratization and reallocation of our urban space… we need to bend over backwards to make our streets safe for all users, including those who wish to cycle. Reluctantly squeezing the bicycle into a car-centric Matrix serves very few. A massive effort to redemoctratize our streets is the greatest urban challenge we face.”
Mikael Colville-Andersen “has become a phenomenon, speaking everywhere and running a consultancy with offices around the world, and he has put his thoughts into a book, Copenhagenize- the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism.”
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Asbury Park Press
Austin Bogues, March 20, 2018
“The list of improvements includes repaving, replacement of electrical utility poles, curb upgrades for ADA compliance at every intersection, upgrades of underground utilities, drainage improvements, lighting improvements and possible sidewalk replacement. It also will add dedicated bicycle lanes.”
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Scarcely a day goes by without news that a pedestrian or bicyclist is seriously injured or more often killed by a person who should NOT BE driving a vehicle. The response is most often to blame the injured or dead and stepped up enforcement of jaywaking law or bicycle law. Let’s take a look at licensing law…
BIKE SNOB
Seniors often elect to live in housing developments in the outskirts of cities in far-flung suburbs where they’re unable to go anywhere – doctors, church, shopping-without driving. What happens when elderly are no longer able to drive? And what of those seniors who elect to live in cities but cannot access daily services because streets designed for cars feel entirely too dangerous to navigate?
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https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/25/16025388/senior-living-walkability-survey
On Saturday, March 24th the Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition was awarded the 2018 Advocate of the Year, Local Level at the New Jersey Bike and Walk Summit, to recognize the advocacy work the organization has done.
The summit’s theme this year was “Toward an Equitable Future”. Speakers and panelists stated that socioeconomically disadvantaged groups rely on cycling and walking and public transit, and that equity requires that these modes of transportation be made safe for everyone.
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/02/07/they-paved-paradise-put-parking-lot
At times as a cyclist among the cars I feel like an insurgent in hostile territory. By now some readers might assume I am advocating cyclist rebellion and lawless riding. I’m not. Cyclists should do their best to be civil and rule-abiding on the road, at least where it doesn’t put us in danger.
At the same time, we can’t expect great or immediate results from this offer of reciprocity to the drivers around us. To suggest that the person at the wrong end of a heavily unequal relationship can gain recognition and equality simply by offering to “respect the space” of the dominant subject is wishful thinking.
When cyclist meets driver on the road, both are notionally equal individuals encountering each other in a democratic, rule-governed and neutral public space. But only if the driver chooses to make it like this. Otherwise, they are in a deeply asymmetrical relation, both physically and culturally.
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https://theconversation.com/cars-bicycles-and-the-fatal-myth-of-equal-reciprocity-81034
