In a race to meet infrastructure, traffic safety and climate goals, advocates say time is of the essence to build more comfortable bike lanes.
last month that zeroed in on the lack of thoughtful infrastructure that caters to the expanding class of road users and how that impacts biking in cities.
He received plenty of feedback from bike advocates on his column, much of it, he said, focused on how he was covering what is largely a New York problem and not something seen in less dense parts of the country. Cities like Denver that are still building out their bike networks may have an advantage, Gordon said; certainly an opportunity. They can build networks that better accommodate the advent of the e-bike if they have the political willpower to do so.
“What they need to be doing is moving much more swiftly to build things like the Broadway bike lane and then instantly assessing those things and tweaking them based on use,” Locantore said. She cites Paris as an example of a big city that took bold steps to. In that city, leaders have committed to adding 112 miles of permanently protected bike lanes and 180,000 new bike parking spaces by 2026 through steps that include taking away parking spaces for cars, Bloomberg reported.
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