Bike corral on Cookman! We’re seeing commitment from the city to become accommodating to bicyclists. A big thanks to our Transportation Manager!
Carmageddon??
“…this ought to be a signal that road diets, which have been shown to greatly improve safety and encourage walking and cycling, don’t have anything approaching the kinds of adverse effects on travel that highway engineers usually predict.”
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/what-happened-to-atlantas-carmageddon/521805/
“Bicyclist Scofflaws”
Following a recent thread on Next Door Asbury Park, this article helps to clear up the perception of “bicyclist scofflaws”.
“It would be safe to say that almost 100 percent of roadway users break traffic laws. Yet the general public’s perception of lawbreaking behavior by drivers and bicyclists is vastly different—at least if you listen to talk radio or read the comments section to online news stories.”
“Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution”
“Compared to the cost of roads, pedestrian- and bike-friendly streets are the budgetary equivalent of change found between sofa cushions”
Jeanette Sadik-Khan, author of Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution. Former NYDOT Commissioner. #streetfight
7 Cities That Are Starting To Go Car-Free
An article from Fast Company in 2015.
Urban planners are finally recognizing that streets should be designed for people, not careening hunks of deadly metal.
“After over a hundred years of living with cars, some cities are slowly starting to realize that the automobile doesn’t make a lot of sense in the urban context. It isn’t just the smog or the traffic deaths; in a city, cars aren’t even a convenient way to get around.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/3040634/7-cities-that-are-starting-to-go-car-free
Artist Displacement and the Resurgence of Cities
The health of a city depends upon affordable housing for diverse communities including cultures, colors and religions, young people, artists and musicians who contribute immeasurably to vibrancy and livability.
http://www.moderncities.com/article/2017-feb-artist-displacement-and-the-resurgence-of-cities
Asbury Park St. Pat’s Parade Photo Album
History of the Bike Lane
It’s 50 years since the first bike lane in the US. Asbury Park has only 1 faded bike lane in the “door zone” on Grand Ave. We’re working on it–Some residents ride every day to work and daily transportation, others for recreation. Ride your bikes in AP and show city officials that bike riders are here to stay and deserve safe infrastructure.
Design For All Users
Asbury Park is not different from Seattle and many cities in the US in fear that multi-modal streets will snarl traffic. In our car-centric culture we’ve become used to responding to more traffic volume with wider roads to carry more cars, which only creates more demand and on, and on. Check out the graphic demonstrating that a car-oriented, wider street does not allow more capacity.
“…it is impossible to remake city streets so they can carry more cars. Everything we do to meet demand creates even more demand.”
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/03/07/truck-crash-on-freeway-paralyzes-traffic-seattle-times-ditch-the-bike-lanes/
If You Build It Traffic Will Come- PARKING STUDY
We advocate building spaces for people rather than for cars. Building housing for people rather than building parking spaces.
“…it begged the question that, perhaps, it’s time to re-examine parking requirement for new residential construction – that maybe blanket requirements are not the best options.
“We are certainly not advocating getting rid of parking everywhere,” said Hart. “We’re just trying to explain to these communities that parking requirements in these communities maybe shouldn’t be locked in to every development.”
Added Lee, “Three parking spaces could be a three-bedroom unit and that means more units in total, which is what everyone is scrambling to build as the housing demand increases in our areas…These are things people want and they are limited by potentially outdated zoning requirements based on data that isn’t reflecting the current trends.”