A Public Service Announcement:
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This bike lane looks great, and is part of the NJDOT Rt 71 Main St road diet, which was advocated by Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition in 2015.
In addition:
🚴🏻♂️Asbury Park is implementing more bike infrastructure in the city, which will indicate to drivers that bicyclists will be present, and serve as traffic calming.
🚴🏻♂️People ride bikes where they feel safest from motor vehicle traffic, which means we must #slowthecars and continue to create more space for people biking and walking.
🚴🏻♂️Drivers, and people riding bikes should know that Bicyclists May Use The Full Lane - they are not required to stay in a bike lane. #bicyclistsmayusefulllane
🚴🏻♂️People riding bikes will
gradually become accustomed to riding in the street, but
#PAINTDOESNTPROTECT.
🚴🏻♂️Less vehicular traffic makes streets safer, so we advocate for creating more space for people to safely move about the city, and reduce use of motor vehicles. #toomanycars
🚴🏻♂️Little by little Americans will learn that infrastructure for people walking and biking makes streets safer and our cities and towns healthier for everyone, including drivers
🚴🏻♂️Meanwhile we need to be aware that currently drivers are speeding even more with less traffic congestion.
@cityofasburyparknj @amymquinn @wheresdougtoday @eileenchapman7 @mjmanzella
#paintdoesntprotect #lotsofbikes #trafficcalming #toomanycars #slowthecars
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We choose new 🚲 bike smell!
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Mikael Colville-Andersen:
To design a healthy city we need to look to the best and learn how it’s been done successfully.
“Mikael is best known for his philosophy about simplifying urban planning and urban cycling and how we should be designing our cities and streets instead of relying on traffic engineering. Using design - a human-to-human process - to make better the urban landscape will get more results quicker and teaming design up with anthropology, sociology and transport psychology first will ensure effective urban transformation.
His book Copenhagenize - the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism, which was published in April 2018, sums up over a decade of his thinking, analysing and efforts to force urban change using the bicycle as the most effective tool in our urban toolboxes. He is currently hosting a global television series about urbanism called The Life-Sized City where he curates great ideas and experiences from cities around the world.“@colvilleandersen #mikaelcolevilleandersen #cityforpeople #placesforpeople #bicyclefriendlycity #peoplecentric #designforpeople #planningforpeople #healthycity @wheresdougtoday @mjmanzella @amymquinn @cityofasburyparknj ... See MoreSee Less
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Cookman Ave in Asbury Park at noon today.
Can it last? A street in the business district of Asbury Park without automobile traffic. 🙌Drivers are normally circling, searching for parking, complaining about traffic and the lack of parking - when they ARE traffic, and they are CAUSING the parking problem. During this viral pandemic we’ve learned that the city must function differently in order to keep people safe and healthy, while enabling businesses and restaurants to operate and profit. AP is a 1.4m sq., walkable, bikeable city. Let’s prepare for a new normal. 🚴🏻♂️🙌🏃🏻♂️🚶🏼🚶🏾♀️👩🏻🦽🏃🏾🧑🏿🦯👯♂️🕺🏽💃🚴♀️🚴 @asburyinsider @asburyparksun @asburyparkcompletestreets #streetsforpeople #placesforpeople #walkablecity @ Asbury Park, New Jersey ... See MoreSee Less
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Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition founding member, Polli Schildge was invited to lead a panel at the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition Summit on March 7th, 2020. The panelists invited represented a swath of Jersey Shore towns, and each member of the panel shared experiences in their unique journeys to implement Complete Streets initiatives in their cities. The audience so had many questions for each panelist that we ran out of time to answer them all, indicating the need for us to stay connected so we can learn from one another. Thanks for another great NJBWC Summit! ... See MoreSee Less
