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Northeast L.A.’s Fletcher Drive recently received some handsome new road diet bike lanes. Unfortunately, they only extend as far south as (almost to) San Fernando Road. Two days ago, LAPD reported a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a 19-year-old pedestrian at Fletcher and La Clede Avenue – just two blocks south of the recent improvements. […]
November 11, 2013
This wednesday night, November 13th 2013, the City Council of Jersey City will be voting on the city’s contract for implementation of on-street bikeway facilities. The vote is on item Z1 resolution 13.756 (on page 15 of the council agenda posted here.) The resolution states: Resolution authorizing the award of contract to Statewide Striping for Traffic Striping […]
November 7, 2013
I’ve been looking through Jersey City’s plan for on-street bicycle facilities. The plan was made public in 2012. It serves as the blueprint for ~60-miles of bike lanes and sharrows that Mayor Fulop has pledged to implement by mid-2014, apparently with a few changes.
November 1, 2013
Jersey City’s new Mayor Steven Fulop is making good on the implementation of new bike facilities announced by his predecessor! In December 2012, Jersey City officials announced that the city would implement 54.7 miles of on-street bike facilities, including 35.2 miles of bike lanes and 19.5 miles of sharrowed bike routes. The 2012 press release listed […]
October 8, 2013
In an article entitled Garden State Gets a Bit Greener Due to More Bike Lanes and Bicycle Traffic, NJ Spotlight sheds light on Jersey City’s plan to implement on-street bicycle facilities. The article covers a number of bike developments around the state of New Jersey. It’s written by Ricardo Kaulessar, and dated today: October 8 […]
September 29, 2013
Great news! Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop has made good on the city’s pledge to begin implementing new bike facilities in September 2013. This weekend saw the first new bike markings: half-completed sharrows on Old Bergen Road. Jersey City residents may be unfamiliar with sharrows, as I think that, when completed, these will be the […]
September 12, 2013
Last night, Wednesday September 11th 2013, on a unanimous 9-0 vote, the City Council of Jersey City approved funding for bicycle infrastructure. The ordinance (see below for full text) re-directs $1M in unspent capital bond dollars. These capital dollars now will be used for three purposes: Speed Bumps: “installation of speed humps …including milling …pavement […]
August 14, 2013
Bikas is continuing our series examining Jersey City’s bicycle facility plan. I recently finished bicycling each of the streets designated to receive bike lanes or sharrows during re-surfacing in summer 2013, and confirmed that, though most of the streets have already been re-surfaced, none of the new bicycle facilities have been implemented yet. First, a […]
August 13, 2013
Last weekend I enjoyed a visit to New York City’s Summer Streets – an excellent car-free street festival. It’s very similar to CicLAvia, Los Angeles’ ciclovia festival, which Bikas’ editor-in-chief Joe Linton had a hand in bringing to life. I am going to share some photographs I took that can maybe give readers a sense […]
May 21, 2012
So, it’s not the latest late-breaking news, but I wanted to post about a couple of recent San Fernando Valley bike lane projects that I rode and photographed earlier this year: Plummer Street and Reseda Boulevard. I gave a couple of CicLAvia talks at Cal State Northridge on March 8th 2012, and, in between the […]
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