Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about protected bike lanes

Menlo Park Gets One Step Closer to Protected Bike Lanes on El Camino Real

By Andrew Boone | Aug 11, 2015 | No Comments

A report released by Menlo Park’s Public Works Department last week [PDF] recommends protected bike lanes and Dutch-style “protected intersections” on El Camino Real. The two-year El Camino Real Corridor Study, led by transportation consulting firm W-Trans, said building bike lanes protected from car traffic by a curb would provide “the most optimum safety conditions […]

Protected Bike Lanes Finally Coming to Folsom Street Near Transbay Center

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 15, 2015 | No Comments

The city will hold a public meeting on Thursday evening to present updates on a plan to install protected bike lanes on Folsom Street near the Transbay Transit Center, east of Second Street. Construction on the project was previously expected to start this year, according to a city staff presentation from last June [PDF]. At […]

To Improve Biking and Walking, Seattle Uses Posts That Can Take a Punch

By Michael Andersen | Jun 17, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. As American cities have looked for simple, cheap ways to get physical barriers between bikes and cars, they’ve been reminded of a sad truth: You get what you pay for. Cheap and […]

Caltrans Gathers Feedback on Upcoming Standards for Protected Bike Lanes

By Melanie Curry | Jun 1, 2015 | No Comments

Caltrans tried an experiment last week. Under a legislative deadline to create standards for Class IV Bikeways, also known as cycle tracks or protected bike lanes, the state department of transportation reached out to people who had expressed an interest in the subject and asked them for ideas. Caltrans may have gotten more than it […]

New Federal Guide Will Show More Cities the Way on Protected Bike Lanes

By Michael Andersen | May 20, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Protected bike lanes are now officially star-spangled. Eight years after New York City created a trailblazing protected bikeway on 9th Avenue, designs once perceived as unfit for American streets have now been […]

Salt Lake City to Install Nation’s First Protected Intersection for Bicycling

By Angie Schmitt | May 7, 2015 | No Comments

Salt Lake City is on track to implement America’s first protected intersection for bicycling this summer. The intersection design is based on a Dutch template that minimizes potential conflicts between people biking, driving, and walking. For example, it allows cyclists to make a left turn in two stages without crossing against oncoming car traffic. It […]

Caltrans Asking for Input on Bikeway Design

By Melanie Curry | Apr 24, 2015 | 5 Comments

Last year’s Protected Bikeways Act from Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) created a new officially designated bike lane type, the Class IV bikeway, variously known as a “protected bikeway” “protected bike lane,” “separated bike lane,” or “cycletrack.” The bill also required Caltrans to create and publish design criteria for the new bikeways by January 2016. […]