from http://www.streetfilms.org/hal-grades-your-bike-locking/
Portland, Ore. 20 year Plan
The Portland, Ore. City Council recently approved a 20 year cycling plan which is very ambitious (site below) . The plan reaches far but has the strong backing of Mayor Sam Adams (he’s former Head of Portland Transportation) and the city council with unanamously approved it. The mayor in his recent State of the City address announced that they want to increase their bicycle commuting rate from 6.5% (the nations highest) to 25% over the next few years. The Daily Journal of Commerce, the local business newspaper reported on a projection to spend $600 million Yikes! over the next 20 years on the bike plan, and they will need to tap multiple sources including the city’s general transportaion revenue, Oregon Dept. of Transportation and the federal government are prime resources which they’ll need to work with.
I spent some time at the site and it has a wealth of information on their planning and implementation process. The plan is rich in detail and can be helpful giving us an idea of how they approached and plan to approach their growth. The “Executive Summary” in the Introduction section nicely summarizes things.
I also found it insightful to look at their application (included below) to the League of American Bicycles which povides a great deal of detail on how they have made their city bicycle friendly. There is a lot of concrete information on what they did to become the first city in the US to get the first Platinum Bicycle Friendly Community status. Check it out. PS Ave. temp. in Portland in Jan. – 41 degrees F. vs 25 degrees F. Rochester & we’ve got more of that “Pesky Snow”. More on that later.
Portland, Ore. 20 year Plan
The Portland, Ore. City Council recently approved a 20 year cycling plan which is very ambitious (site below) . The plan reaches far but has the strong backing of Mayor Sam Adams (he’s former Head of Portland Transportation) and the city council with unanamously approved it. The mayor in his recent State of the City address announced that they want to increase their bicycle commuting rate from 6.5% (the nations highest) to 25% over the next few years. The Daily Journal of Commerce, the local business newspaper reported on a projection to spend $600 million Yikes! over the next 20 years on the bike plan, and they will need to tap multiple sources including the city’s general transportaion revenue, Oregon Dept. of Transportation and the federal government are prime resources which they’ll need to work with.
I spent some time at the site and it has a wealth of information on their planning and implementation process. The plan is rich in detail and can be helpful giving us an idea of how they approached and plan to approach their growth. The “Executive Summary” in the Introduction section nicely summarizes things.
I also found it insightful to look at their application (included below) to the League of American Bicycles which povides a great deal of detail on how they have made their city bicycle friendly. There is a lot of concrete information on what they did to become the first city in the US to get the first Platinum Bicycle Friendly Community status. Check it out. PS Ave. temp. in Portland in Jan. – 41 degrees F. vs 25 degrees F. Rochester & we’ve got more of that “Pesky Snow”. More on that later.
Rochester City's Project Green Plan's Appendix on Bicycle Access Strategies
Who knew?
Last year the City, along with our friends at the Rochester Regional Community Design Center published a most excellent document entitled “Project Green: From Blight to Bright.” The whole document is available here, but embedded below is Appendix 1: Bicycle Access Strategy.
ENVIRONMENT: Biking’s benefits �" realistically – Letters – Rochester City Newspaper
ENVIRONMENT: Biking’s benefits �” realistically – Letters – Rochester City Newspaper
…A pragmatic approach to improving cycling in a city like Rochester would include a collaborative effort between non-profit entities, residents, cycling shops and clubs, city government, and state legislators to consolidate funds for relatively low-cost solutions like painting bike lanes on arterial routes and installing bicycle racks at public meeting places.
For example, a bike lane along Monroe Avenue stretching from Cobb’s Hill to downtown (or even more optimistically, from Pittsford), would have positive impacts on the businesses lining the route and on the quality of life of people living in or visiting that area. …
ERIK REINERT, ROCHESTER
Rochester City's Project Green Plan's Appendix on Bicycle Access Strategies
Who knew?
Last year the City, along with our friends at the Rochester Regional Community Design Center published a most excellent document entitled “Project Green: From Blight to Bright.” The whole document is available here, but embedded below is Appendix 1: Bicycle Access Strategy.
ENVIRONMENT: Biking’s benefits �" realistically – Letters – Rochester City Newspaper
ENVIRONMENT: Biking’s benefits �” realistically – Letters – Rochester City Newspaper
…A pragmatic approach to improving cycling in a city like Rochester would include a collaborative effort between non-profit entities, residents, cycling shops and clubs, city government, and state legislators to consolidate funds for relatively low-cost solutions like painting bike lanes on arterial routes and installing bicycle racks at public meeting places.
For example, a bike lane along Monroe Avenue stretching from Cobb’s Hill to downtown (or even more optimistically, from Pittsford), would have positive impacts on the businesses lining the route and on the quality of life of people living in or visiting that area. …
ERIK REINERT, ROCHESTER
I just found out that the City will be holding a public meeting regarding the resurfacing of Dewey Avenue (including restriping) on February 25, at 7:00 PM, in the Aquinas High School Cafeteria. The project involves resurfacing Dewey from Driving Park up to Eastman Avenue, which is north of Ridge Road.
The community charrette for this area currently calls for bike lanes along the entire length, but a charrette is only a plan, and it will be up to the community to hold the City’s feet to the fire and actually put them in the project. This is an excellent chance for bicyclists to make known their demands for bike lanes- and this would be a lane along a very long stretch of major thoroughfare. It enacted, it would undoubtedly be the longest and most useful bike lane in the County.
I plan on attending, but it would be great if we could get a bunch of cyclists there to advocate for the lanes. Some merchants may speak out against them, believing that they the lanes will interfere with their parking (it won’t) or that narrowing Dewey from 4 lanes to three will hurt their businesses (it is likely to INCREASE their business). The more cycling advocates speaking out, the better.
I just found out that the City will be holding a public meeting regarding the resurfacing of Dewey Avenue (including restriping) on February 25, at 7:00 PM, in the Aquinas High School Cafeteria. The project involves resurfacing Dewey from Driving Park up to Eastman Avenue, which is north of Ridge Road.
The community charrette for this area currently calls for bike lanes along the entire length, but a charrette is only a plan, and it will be up to the community to hold the City’s feet to the fire and actually put them in the project. This is an excellent chance for bicyclists to make known their demands for bike lanes- and this would be a lane along a very long stretch of major thoroughfare. It enacted, it would undoubtedly be the longest and most useful bike lane in the County.
I plan on attending, but it would be great if we could get a bunch of cyclists there to advocate for the lanes. Some merchants may speak out against them, believing that they the lanes will interfere with their parking (it won’t) or that narrowing Dewey from 4 lanes to three will hurt their businesses (it is likely to INCREASE their business). The more cycling advocates speaking out, the better.
The missing link, aka the "Tweenway Spur"
We have identified an RGE gas pipeline that runs from a hill on the West Side of RIT’s campus (just South of the Red Barn) across East River Rd, across the river, across Scottsville Rd, and through cleared woods to the GVGreenway Trail.
This path has just the trajectory we might want in developing the RIT Tweenway, and the trees are already cleared. (The path is not surfaced.)
View tweenway Spur in a larger map
Here are some panoramas
The view from the hill to the West: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2721/4309845639_f1e422dcce_o.jpg
The view from Scottsville Rd East to RIT: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4309844619_70c0ddf04f_o.jpg
The view at the GVGreenway-Pipeline intersection (380 degrees) : http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4338153998_0616943c66_o.jpg:
Let’s call the path that might be made from the pipeline the “Tweenway Spur” (assuming the cross-RIT bike trail is to be called the RIT Tweenway.)
The ideal long-range vision is for a cycle/pedestrian bridge from the hill on the RIT campus to the Tweenway Spur, without their having to touch down on the East River Rd, Scottsville Rd, or the River.
However, even without the Tweenway Bridge, this spur would provide a more intuitive, scenic and safer alternative route to the Ballantyne Bridge (and thence to RIT or Jefferson Road and the Lehigh Valley North Trail).
RTS Town Meeting in Chili
I can’t attend this meeting, as it conflicts with another meeting that night. However, it would be great if some west side cyclists could go and advocate for 3-bike racks and covered bike parking at park and ride locations:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=276442592741&ref=mf
RTS Town Meeting in Chili
I can’t attend this meeting, as it conflicts with another meeting that night. However, it would be great if some west side cyclists could go and advocate for 3-bike racks and covered bike parking at park and ride locations:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=276442592741&ref=mf
New Road Projects
It’s great that the C of R is now sending us e-mails regarding public meeting for street improvement projects:
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It was brought to my attention that the Rochester Cycling Alliance would like to be alerted when public meetings for street improvement projects are announced. I will be emailing you the notifications going forward. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Oakwood Rd
http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589941248
Mt Hope Ave
http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589941363
Kara A. Noto
City of Rochester | Dept. of Environmental Services- Commissioner’s Office
City Hall | 30 Church Street | Room 300B
Rochester, New York 14614
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I looked at the Oakwood project, and it seemed to be a residential street, with no important connections to other streets, not really a priority for bike lanes.
The Mt. Hope project seems like it should be a priority for bike lanes, but the notice said that the meeting was for a final design presentation. I think we would have to make A LOT of noise before the city would amend a final design.
-Bill Collins
New Road Projects
It’s great that the C of R is now sending us e-mails regarding public meeting for street improvement projects:
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It was brought to my attention that the Rochester Cycling Alliance would like to be alerted when public meetings for street improvement projects are announced. I will be emailing you the notifications going forward. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Oakwood Rd
http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589941248
Mt Hope Ave
http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589941363
Kara A. Noto
City of Rochester | Dept. of Environmental Services- Commissioner’s Office
City Hall | 30 Church Street | Room 300B
Rochester, New York 14614
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I looked at the Oakwood project, and it seemed to be a residential street, with no important connections to other streets, not really a priority for bike lanes.
The Mt. Hope project seems like it should be a priority for bike lanes, but the notice said that the meeting was for a final design presentation. I think we would have to make A LOT of noise before the city would amend a final design.
-Bill Collins
Introducing Scott MacRae
Hi group. I finally made onto the blog. Jon and I met for 2 + hours brainstorming on bringing the U of R and RIT together as well as my Portland Ore. Experience. Jon posted the Portland Livability Video which is terrific. It has a great video explanation of Biking Boulevards and a variety of creative solutions to integrate cycling into their city. It is well worth your time.
Cheers,
Scott
Introducing Scott MacRae
Hi group. I finally made onto the blog. Jon and I met for 2 + hours brainstorming on bringing the U of R and RIT together as well as my Portland Ore. Experience. Jon posted the Portland Livability Video which is terrific. It has a great video explanation of Biking Boulevards and a variety of creative solutions to integrate cycling into their city. It is well worth your time.
Cheers,
Scott
The Open Planning Project
The New York Observer has a profile of Mark Gorton, the founder of The Open Planning Project (TOPP). Gorton, who made his fortune in the hedge fund industry, has funded advocacy for livable streets in New York City. In fact, the Observer bills him as “The Man Who Closed Times Square to Traffic.” According to the article,
TOPP is a cross between a software start-up and a progressive policy think tank, and is made up of several smaller working groups. One group customizes and provides tech support for open-source mapping software that transit agencies use to keep track of their routes. Another works on applications that make it easier for people to communicate with city agencies-letting cyclists propose sites for bike racks to the city’s DOT, for example. Another group produces Streetsblog, an opinionated blog on transportation issues.
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