September 25, 2007
Future Street Includes Protected Bike Lane
The New York Times reports on a seven-block stretch of Ninth Avenue in New York’s Chelsea district that it about to get a two-wheel makeover. The ’street of the future’, as officials are calling it, is attempting to encourage cycling and other alternative forms of transportation by ditching a lane of traffic and converting it into a protected bike lane and adding more space for pedestrian traffic. The NYT explains:
It does this by placing the bike lane directly next to the sidewalk on the western edge of Ninth Avenue, which is the left side of the street for those facing north, in the direction of traffic. The plan also takes a lane from cars, creating more room for pedestrians and for the bicycle lane…
Next to the bike lane, which will be 10 feet wide, will be an eight-foot section of pavement that will act as a buffer, with plastic posts and large planters to keep cars from entering. The parking lane will be to the right of the buffer zone, and beyond that will be three lanes for traffic.
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