November 10, 20152 Comments on Part-time bike lanes, Homestead Road, Sunnyvale CA
The part-time bike lanes on Homestead Road through part of Sunnyvale, CA are up for discussion at the November 17, 2015 city council meeting.
September 17, 201318 Comments on Supersharrows?
Do you remember that shared lane lane with green painted along 2nd Street in Long Beach California way back in 2009?
The city of Oakland is apparently painting part of 40th Street with green. The East Bay Bicycle Coalition calls these Supersharrows, and wants to know what you think of them.
Supersharrows are essentially sharrows with a vibrant punch! These are not bike lanes where bicyclists have priority over cars, but rather a shared space for both users, with a visible reminder to driviers to look for bikes.
Ride the supersharrows and tell us what you think. If successful, Oakland intends to stripe more on streets such as MacArthur Blvd in the Laurel District, Harrison St toward Piedmont, Market St north of Adeline St, a couple blocks either way at Broadway & Grand, and Lakeshore Ave east of El Embarcadero.
Here’s Market Street Oakland as it appears now, and with a strip of green.
Update: You’ll see comments below that the green lane should be centered more in that right hand lane. I’ve since modified my rendering to better reflect what Oakland plans for Market, although I think I probably made the green portion a little bit too wide.
September 11, 2013Leave a Comment
The U.S Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published a memorandum endorsing “a flexible approach to bicycle and pedestrian facility design.”
September 10, 201311 Comments on Sunnyvale City Council to discuss Duane Avenue lane reduction tonight
Update: City Council selects to remove parking and lanes on Duane Avenue to make room for buffered bike lanes.
Tonight, the city council for Sunnyvale, California will discuss a city staff proposal to add bike lanes to a one mile segment of Duane Avenue between Stewart Drive and Fair Oaks Avenue. Space for the lanes will be made by removing some street parking and reducing the stroad from four lanes down to three.
Currently, Duane Avenue is 72 feet of two parking lanes and four 12-foot-wide travel lanes, as shown below. (And please never mind the backwards parking on the right hand side – mistake on my part!)
August 22, 20132 Comments on A bike boulevard in 1963?
I’m digging through old issues of LIFE Magazine for mentions and photos of people on bikes and found this interesting bit about Bike Month activities in 1963.
July 30, 20131 Comment on Sunnyvale to replace parking with bike lanes on El Camino Real
The Sunnyvale City Council approved a plan to remove street parking and replace that with bike lanes on El Camino Real (ECR) between Sunnyvale Avenue and Remington Drive during their meeting on July 23, 2013.
ECR is a six lane traffic sewer in this part of Sunnyvale. This half mile segment of bike lanes will be the very first bike lanes painted into this historic highway in Santa Clara County. Because this state highway is under Caltrans control, the city could only obtain permission to stripe ECR if they removed street parking. The below map shows existing bike lanes in blue and the new proposed lanes in green. Click through to Google Maps for the larger geographic context.
