Newark City Council Discusses a Protected Bike Lane for Delaware Avenue

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Newark City Council Discusses a Protected Bike Lane for Delaware Avenue

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The Newark City Council will discuss a protected bike lane for Delaware Avenue as part of its agenda this evening.

Support of a protected lane for Delaware Avenue by the council is critically important. In its recent Bicycle Friendly Community “report card” for Newark, one of the key recommendations from the League of Bicyclists was for Newark to move forward with Newark’s (and Delaware’s!) first protected bike lane.

People for Bikes counts that there are approximately 200 protected bike lanes in 53 cities in the U.S. For these forward-thinking cities, protected bike lanes have been a key economic development strategy to

The League of American Bicyclists also identified a protected bike lane for Delaware Avenue as one of the key steps Newark needs to take in order to improve its “bicycle friendly” ranking from it current “Bronze” to “Silver”:

"Key Steps to Silver" from the the League of American Bicyclists' "report card" for Newark

“Key Steps to Silver” from the the League of American Bicyclists’ report card for Newark

There are many engineering approaches to creating a protected bike lane, depending on preference and cost. Here are 14 (!) different types of protected bike lane:

Reference: http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/14-ways-to-make-bike-lanes-better-the-infographic

Reference: http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/14-ways-to-make-bike-lanes-better-the-infographic

Newark’s progress towards becoming a more bicycle friendly community is in the hands of the Newark City Council this evening.

 

 

  James Wilson is the executive director of Bike Delaware.

 

 

 

 

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August 25 Newark City Council Agenda

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Newark 2014 Bicycle Friendly Community “Report Card” (League of American Bicyclists)

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• Philadelphia’s Brand Spankin’ New Protected Bike Lane

All Bike Delaware articles on protected bike lanes

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• The Rise of The North American Protected Bike Lane

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One Response

  1. This is absolutely essential because Delaware drivers have no courtesy when driving around bikes. Even with kids they will pass 2 feet away at 45 mph. I am tired of seeing the results of this stupidity in the Emergency room

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