{"id":3603,"date":"2014-05-20T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:15:38","slug":"greening-york-region%e2%80%a6with-bike-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/greening-york-region%e2%80%a6with-bike-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"greening york region\u2026with bike lanes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/May13_blog_Plants.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog_image_bike_05_16_2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3608\" title=\"blog_image_bike_05_16_2014\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog_image_bike_05_16_2014.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog_image_bike_05_16_2014.png 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blog_image_bike_05_16_2014-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sight of summer weather means more people are getting outside and being active, ditching their winter tires for bicycle tires. Cyclists make up a large percentage of commuters so ensuring their safety, as well as the safety of other motorists and pedestrians, is important in creating convenient and cohesive road systems. Biking is as a healthy, more environmentally friendly way to get around, and the vivaNext corridors are helping to facilitate this.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Highway 7 East rapidway, bike boxes and dedicated bike lanes are being implemented along the corridor. Bike boxes allow cyclists to avoid crossing three lanes of busy traffic to reach the left-turn lanes, and act as a safe, designated waiting area. With the installation of these bike boxes, the temporary condition of restricting motorists from making a right-turn movement at intersections has been removed. Motorists are now able to make right turns at red lights on Highway 7 at all intersections.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated bike lanes also mean cyclists have these lanes all to themselves and are not sharing at any point with other vehicles. They are painted a high-contrast green in the areas around the intersections, with specific bike lane markings to clearly identify them in the mid-block areas. Following the established safety standards, bike lanes are designed at 1.4 metres wide, with an additional half metre for a buffer zone between the bike and traffic lanes.<\/p>\n<p>For cyclists, motorists, and pedestrians, sharing the road is becoming increasingly difficult in dense urban centres. But, the installation of bike lanes is proving to be a great alternative to our congested roads and improving air quality. Also, cyclists can enjoy the benefits of bike racks on transit during longer commutes, which eases the bike-to-bus transition and helps with mobility. You can read more about the benefits of bike lanes in a <a title=\"a few bad cyclists shouldn\u2019t stop us from building bike lanes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2014\/05\/13\/a_few_bad_cyclists_shouldnt_stop_us_from_building_bike_lanes.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent article from the Toronto Star<\/a>.\u00a0Following the rules of the road and respecting all commuters in the process can be a positive experience, so get out and get cycling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sight of summer weather means more people are getting outside and being active, ditching their winter tires for bicycle tires. Cyclists make up a large percentage of commuters so ensuring their safety, as well as the safety of other motorists and pedestrians, is important in creating convenient and cohesive road systems. Biking is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[34,939,9],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-urban-planning","tag-rapidway","tag-urban-planning","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}