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Road Diets and Safe Street Design
By: Ian Watson In a time where cities are striving to become more pedestrian and bicycle friendly, it is important for communities to consider adoption and implementation of safe street designs. These types of developments integrate bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure to maximize use for all modes of transportation. There are [...]
How suburbia (had) shaped my perception of bicycling
My childhood experience of bicycling was not unusual. It’s a story that many will find familiar: growing up in suburbia on a dead-end street off of a semi busy road, my parents taught me how to bicycle. And like many children, I stayed only on my street and its sidewalk. [...]
Complete Streets: FHWA’s Revision to 13 Controlling Criteria for Design
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released a Notice for a request for comments regarding Revision of Thirteen Controlling Criteria for Design, in order to updates its policy on design criteria for streets. Currently, there are 13 controlling criteria for design, and formal design exceptions are required when any of [...]
Local NJ Bike/Ped News Feed October 31st – November 13th, 2015
NJ Bike/Ped Headlines Pedestrian Bridges For Eatontown's Route 35, 36 Proposed wordontheshore.com – November 12th Residents seek reopening of Liberty Corner pedestrian bridge NewJerseyHills.com – November 11th Elizabeth chosen for Street Smart NJ pedestrian safety campaign NJ.com – November 10th Bayonne residents push for pedestrian bridge after tragedy on Route [...]
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and National Complete Streets Coalition Director Emiko Atherton Bookend Another Successful NJ Complete Streets Summit
By: Ian Watson The 2015 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit was held on Monday October 26th at Rutgers University. It brought together over 250 planners, engineers, advocates, and policy-makers from throughout the state to celebrate the success of Complete Streets in New Jersey, and to provide information about benefits, implementation [...]
Bicycling Among Seniors on the Upswing
Young adults may get most of the press about bicycling, but there has also been a documented rise in bicycle use among baby boomers as they have aged. Statistics about seniors and bicycling, based on 2009 National Travel Survey data, show large increase in bicycling among the senior population since [...]