Bicycle Infrastructure
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Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
In case anyone missed it, NiceRideMN is doing an AMA on reddit. Still might be able to throw in a message
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/com ... _anything/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/com ... _anything/
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*payblocked.
A Metropolitan Council proposal could take regional trails from 340 miles to almost 1,100 miles by 2040.
Read more: http://finance-commerce.com/2014/09/met ... z3CV9MBADa
This seems like ultimate fantasy
A Metropolitan Council proposal could take regional trails from 340 miles to almost 1,100 miles by 2040.
Read more: http://finance-commerce.com/2014/09/met ... z3CV9MBADa
This seems like ultimate fantasy
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Let's work more towards protected lanes. The new "Build it for Isabella" campaign heads out
http://www.peopleforbikes.org/green-lane-project/
http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entr ... r-isabella
Some link candy too! Awesome video in the first one
http://www.peopleforbikes.org/green-lane-project/
http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entr ... r-isabella
Some link candy too! Awesome video in the first one
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Seems like it would be relatively simple to transform the bike lanes + parking on Blaisdell/1st into parking-protected bike lanes. You'd have to get rid of some spots to allow for right turn lanes at a couple key intersections, but it'd mostly be changing the painted lines on the road.
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I hate to be a link spammer or such but hey, I love biking so damn much and want the city to be the best it can be ever for pedestrians and bikes. So here's the deal, the Hennepin-Lyndale vote is tomorrow and if you have not already please email the council members to show your support! So if you see this before 10 am tomorrow please e-mail the members in favor of this
http://mplsbike.org/blog/posts/action-a ... n-lyndale/
http://mplsbike.org/blog/posts/action-a ... n-lyndale/
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Went to a meeting on the Franklin Ave Bridge protected bike lanes east to Emerald. Sounds promising with both lanes on the north side. Only issue is if the church wants Sunday morning parking. In the bike lanes. Hope that's not a concession, otherwise I'll buy a cheap bike and park it in a car lane.
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http://mplsbike.org/blog/posts/bac-give ... -approval/
With the new 35W station coming it looks like bicyclists will get some extras too!
With the new 35W station coming it looks like bicyclists will get some extras too!
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The draft of Hennepin County's 2040 bikeways plan is out: http://www.hennepin.us/~/media/hennepin ... n-plan.pdf
Notable on the list for me: bike lanes on Franklin are planned and listed as one of the county's highest priorities.
Notable on the list for me: bike lanes on Franklin are planned and listed as one of the county's highest priorities.
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has anyone been over to see the progress on the 36th st bikeway? supposed to be finished this week if i recall.
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Can anyone interpret this for 46th Street? My pdf viewer is having issues with the file. It looks like the 'as-is' August 2014 map notes nothing on 46th Street (CSAH 46) but the 'planned' September 2014 draft appears to show a planned bikeway from Park to Cedar, but an *existing* bikeway from Lake Harriet to Park Ave. EHHH?
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kare11 had a silly little story on it, I didn't listen to the guy talking but it shows how much they've done
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/ ... /16879093/
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/ ... /16879093/
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I recently attended a 26th Avenue North reconstruction meeting with the three neighborhood organizations affected, the engineers and a sleepy CM Yang. The rebuild will included two 13 foot lanes, 6 foot boulevards, a pair of five foot sidewalks and most importantly an 8 foot bike path. Bike Coalition advocates want to narrow the lanes to 12 or 11 feet and use the saved space to better separate the sidewalks from the bike path. At this point the C1 option looks the most likely, which would put the bike path on the south side of the street. A decision is supposed to be made by next month to get this in front of the council.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7j6cF ... sp=sharing
Also attended a meeting about the C Line Penn Avenue aBRT and bike lanes are now being considered in conjunction with Penn Avenue Community Works. The potential bike lanes would be separated by bollards. This would remove parking from Penn. The other option presented would be to maintain parking on Penn and have trails on either Oliver or Queen. Both of those alternatives are faced with impediments along the route. I would scan the docs I received today, but my scanner doesn't work.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7j6cF ... sp=sharing
Also attended a meeting about the C Line Penn Avenue aBRT and bike lanes are now being considered in conjunction with Penn Avenue Community Works. The potential bike lanes would be separated by bollards. This would remove parking from Penn. The other option presented would be to maintain parking on Penn and have trails on either Oliver or Queen. Both of those alternatives are faced with impediments along the route. I would scan the docs I received today, but my scanner doesn't work.
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https://twitter.com/reubencollins/statu ... 08416?s=09
Passive pedestrian detection at Griggs and Concordia.
Passive pedestrian detection at Griggs and Concordia.
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Shouldn't those be on University at the mid block light rail platform entrances? I have seen SO many close calls and quick / panic stops by cars. That, bundled with unpredictable pedestrian behavior, is really an accident waiting to happen.
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The draft of Hennepin County's 2040 bikeways plan is out: http://www.hennepin.us/~/media/hennepin ... n-plan.pdf
Notable on the list for me: bike lanes on Franklin are planned and listed as one of the county's highest priorities.
"U.S. bicycle route system
The United State Department of Transportation
has led the effort to establish a national system of
bicycle routes that connects across state lines and
functions similar to the interstate or U.S. highway
systems. The first route designated in Minnesota
is the Mississippi River Trail bikeway. A future U.S.
bicycle route is proposed along the Minnesota River
in Hennepin County."
oh my forget the High speed rail to Chicago! What a neat idea! Does anybody know has this been funded or looks to become a reality or is it just a dream? Sure would be neat to have a "Interstate Bikeway" system.
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This is kind of old news, but I've finally used the new Dinkytown Greenway connection that goes from the No. 9 bridge over to the Gold Medal Park area. Why was this so expensive? It's a really short stretch and the land seems fairly flat, but wasn't it the most expensive section of bike trail in the city somehow?
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I haven't heard before now that it was the most expensive section of bike trail in the city, and I have trouble believing that it is, unless they aren't correcting for inflation. I'd expect that that section of trail on the East Bank down by the river under the 94 bridge, where it's all up on stilts, would be the most expensive in inflation-corrected dollars.
That being said, I can think of a few factors that made this connection overly expensive per unit length: The ramp up to the culvert from Bridge 9 involved a decent amount of fill. Not a huge amount, but grading is pretty expensive. Also, at least the portion east of 35W is not asphalt, but black-tinted concrete, for some reason. Finally, mobilization fixed costs. It costs about the same to get a construction crew to the site and set up for a 10 mile trail as for a 0.1 mile trail, but there's a lot less work to spread the costs over. It still doesn't seem like it should have been as expensive as it turned out to be, but I'm no construction manager, so I'm probably missing something.
That being said, I can think of a few factors that made this connection overly expensive per unit length: The ramp up to the culvert from Bridge 9 involved a decent amount of fill. Not a huge amount, but grading is pretty expensive. Also, at least the portion east of 35W is not asphalt, but black-tinted concrete, for some reason. Finally, mobilization fixed costs. It costs about the same to get a construction crew to the site and set up for a 10 mile trail as for a 0.1 mile trail, but there's a lot less work to spread the costs over. It still doesn't seem like it should have been as expensive as it turned out to be, but I'm no construction manager, so I'm probably missing something.
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"At less than one-fourth of a mile long, the Bluff Street Bike Trail project works out to a per-mile rate of more than $12 million, easily eclipsing the $9.2 million the city paid for the final mile of the Cedar Lake Trail through the North Loop"This is kind of old news, but I've finally used the new Dinkytown Greenway connection that goes from the No. 9 bridge over to the Gold Medal Park area. Why was this so expensive? It's a really short stretch and the land seems fairly flat, but wasn't it the most expensive section of bike trail in the city somehow?
http://m.startribune.com/local/minneapo ... 74571.html
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Ford Parkway reconstruction to add bike lanes
http://www.twincities.com/News/ci_26763 ... bike-lanes
No idea why these can't be parking protected. Or why we need dangerous 12' freeway width lanes on a city street. But at least it's an improvement.
http://www.twincities.com/News/ci_26763 ... bike-lanes
No idea why these can't be parking protected. Or why we need dangerous 12' freeway width lanes on a city street. But at least it's an improvement.
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