Thanks Bike Walk RVA for sharing this!
The City of Richmond has just installed the first post- and parking-protected bike lane (PBL) in the region – about .4 miles long – in the East End on Fairfield Way. We can’t wait for the next PBL projects coming down the line! #MoreBikeLanes
Central Virginia's first Protected Bike Lane!
The City of Richmond has just installed the first post- and parking-protected bike lane (PBL) in the region – about .4 miles long – in the East End on Fairfield Way. We can't wait for the next PBL projects coming down the line! #MoreBikeLanesChurch Hill People's News – you're gonna like this.
Posted by Bike Walk RVA on Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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11 comments
This would be a warm fuzzy story if the schools weren’t falling apart inside and out, ts streets that are deplorable and infrastructure collapsing. I’m sorry but it’s wasteful spending no matter where the money was generated. Fix what we have.
Ridiculous! Put one on Brookland Park Blvd. Drive it every day and have not seen one biker yet. Instead it now takes 10-15 minutes to get to the expressway because one lane can go right left or straight instead of two lanes. A waste of asphalt. Welcome to the City of Richmond, fiscal prowess = 0
SO the city of Richmond has to pass a food and lodoing tax just to borrow money to fix schools but can afford bike lanes. our Mayor and coucil members wasting our tax dollars, business as usual. Ridiculas .vote them out.
I am with @1 Willard. This is a non-priority when the streets and alleys are an obstacle course of craters, the schools are falling apart, public housing is a shambles and crime is up. Hipster bike lanes are way down the priority list given the real issues facing the city. That they’re not might explain why the city is a wreck.
It’s good til you have to turn onto Oliver Hill.
It’s just like VDOT…. Always ready to build a new bypass or other thoroughfare, but seemingly unable to keep existing roads and bridges in good repair. It’s wanton tax and spend that’s in epidemic proportions in Virginia and in the Nation. After all they’re not spending their money, oh no, it’s yours, so naturally they have a free hand.
When you elect left wing Democrats, you simply can’t expect money to be spent in a responsible manner. This has been shown time and again in virtually every major US city.
Hey Al, really?
FYI, the money for bike lanes and other cyclist/pedestrian safety infrastructure comes from Fed Govt/State of Virginia grants earmarked specifically for road safety projects that encourage multi-modal forms of transportation.
Air quality/lowering carbon emissions are also a fed/state priority in funding for bike/ped safety infrastructure.
Finally, overall human health improves and disease rates decline in communities that show an increase in cycling as a form of daily transportation.
@9 Elaine:
The money comes from the grants to construct the project, but maintenance costs fall on the City–money the City doesn’t seem to have to enough of to properly maintain the existing infrastructure. This just makes it harder to focus resources where we desperately need them most.
While health outcomes may be improved by increased cycling, they are even more improved by quality schools that aren’t infested with mold and public housing that doesn’t have working heat. Nothing wrong with biking but in a city with so many core services in crisis, this is way down the list of things to spend time and future maintenance funds on.
Yes “BAF”, and maintenance will be less expensive on surfaces ridden by bikes than those destroyed by constant car traffic. This reduces long term maintenance costs in addition to the public benefits of having a bike lane. Maybe you should try riding it instead of taking your car sometime. We as a society cannot afford our driving habits. Improved schools will benefit health “even more”? Do you have a study to cite? (Here’s mine: https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/1-mile-protected-bike-lane-100x-cheaper-1-mile-roadway-chart.html )
These two things should not be at odds. Yes, improving schools is another drastically needed project, but there is plenty of real wasteful spending to attack. This is a rare bit of progress.