This is not just a matter of adding protected bike lanes. Cambridge is a geographically tiny but high population density city that has been consistently working in this direction for decades. What would be a huge accomplishment anywhere is just another step
It’s fantastic they’ve been able to accomplish so much toward car-free living and I wish I could afford to live there.
One of the things people should take from my response is that protected bike lanes are a great step but not sufficient by themselves. All the other steps Cambridge has taken to increase walkability, bus, and subway access, to curtail cars, to encourage walking, to adding protected bus lanes, to remapping their street grid to form an oasis helped make this possible
Not sure if this is a typo or a brilliant idea. CPD doesn’t enforce bus lanes at all. The whole bus lane thing has been a bit of a fail because they’ve become express lanes for asshole drivers that use them to skip the line.
This is not just a matter of adding protected bike lanes. Cambridge is a geographically tiny but high population density city that has been consistently working in this direction for decades. What would be a huge accomplishment anywhere is just another step
It’s fantastic they’ve been able to accomplish so much toward car-free living and I wish I could afford to live there.
One of the things people should take from my response is that protected bike lanes are a great step but not sufficient by themselves. All the other steps Cambridge has taken to increase walkability, bus, and subway access, to curtail cars, to encourage walking, to adding protected bus lanes, to remapping their street grid to form an oasis helped make this possible
Not sure if this is a typo or a brilliant idea. CPD doesn’t enforce bus lanes at all. The whole bus lane thing has been a bit of a fail because they’ve become express lanes for asshole drivers that use them to skip the line.