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Bicycle commuting benefits
                  
 Sacramento Transportation Management Association
The Sacramento
TMA is an independent, non-profit membership association.
Contact the TMA at (916) 737-1513
sactma@surewest.net
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Bicycle Commuting
Bike path maps
Muenster, Germany (pop. 270,000) has 156 miles of separated bike paths in its
central city and surrounding suburbs. In a 1994 survey, 32 percent
of all trips in Muenster were made by bicycle (compared to the current estimate
of 1.5 percent of all trips in Sacramento). Muenster and other major German
cities have taken other steps to make their urban streets bicycle friendly --
including giving bicycles priority right-of-way on some streets. This is
occurring, mind you, in a country that has, next to the U.S., the second highest
per capita ownership of automobiles in the world.
Closer to home, Portland, Ore., experienced a tripling of bicycle trips to its
central city after retrofitting four of its gateway bridges over the Willamette
River with either designated bike lanes or widened sidewalks.
Palo Alto, Berkeley, Portland and Eugene, Ore., have successfully introduced
bicycle-friendly streets. On these "bike boulevards," traffic barriers
at intersections discourage autos from using them as thoroughfares, while
bicycles can pass right through.
Downtown Sacramento has a similar opportunity in its northeast quadrant, where
traffic-calming measures are already in place and where further steps could be
taken to encourage bicycle commuters from East Sacramento. Many of them already
use E Street, which has a few bike-porous traffic barriers in midtown. Why not
make E Street similarly bike-friendly all the way into the heart of downtown?
Downtown's 11th Street, already equipped with bike lanes, attracts bike
commuters from Land Park and other south area neighborhoods, but could be
improved with stop signs or traffic signals regulating the heavy east-west auto
traffic on P, Q, S and T streets. (The Sacramento City Council recently directed
city staff to identify a north-south bike route for downtown commuters; other
candidates, in addition to 11th Street, are 13th, 19th and 21st streets, all of
which could be fitted with bike lanes.)
Admittedly, taking these kinds of steps would require something many
Sacramentans are loath to do: favor any mode of transportation other than the
auto. Our expanding waistlines and narrow sidewalks are testimony to that.
Our fixation on the automobile is also having less obvious but serious health
impacts. According to mounting medical evidence, the fine particulate matter in
auto emissions is causing high rates of asthma in physically active children,
and heart disease and lung cancer in adults.
Today's bicyclists are hardy pioneers, willing to risk the hazards of a mode of
transportation distinctly outside the mainstream, that has received only
haphazard support from government.
If we truly want cleaner air and a healthier society, we need to appeal to
marginal auto commuters, the ones who've been thinking about dusting off the old
10-speed. To lure them out of their gas-guzzlers we have to convince them that
bicycle commuting is not just for the bold and the brave, that it is a
relatively safe form of transportation. We can go a long way toward achieving
this with bike lanes on all major arterials and specially designated bike
routes.
A policy shift that treats cycling as a viable, adult form of transportation
would, if the European model is any indication, mean greater responsibilities
for cyclists, including safety checks and a stricter application of traffic laws
to two-wheeled travel. (The one current advantage to the secondary status of
bicyclists is that police tend to look the other way when they run a red light
or roll through a stop sign.)
Other cities are showing that it is possible to both think and plan
multi-modally. The Germans have relatively astronomical rates of bike use
because they have made conscious, public-policy decisions to promote that mode
of travel. Here in this country we have been making policy decisions in favor of
the automobile for over half a century, with the predictable results. Isn't it
time we broadened our approach and invited cyclists into our cities?
Drive to the Fair,
pay $17. Ride a bike, pay $8
The California State Fair offers free valet bike
parking to those that arrive by bike, and you get a coupon for $2 off the
regular $10 admission price. If you drive, parking at the fair is $7 and
admission is $10.
The valet bike parking is located near the fair's
main entrance gate and is open every day during fair hours. I did it last
weekend and it’s really easy!
Take the bike trail heading west (from, for
example, Sac State). Right before the railroad tracks, the trail splits and the
trail to the right has Tribute Road painted on the path. Go to the right, which
leads to the levee near Tribute Road
Follow the levee a short ride east right into Lot
A of Cal Expo. Then head east across the lot to the attended, valet bike parking
at the Main Gate.
You can see the levee road on the map, and how it
ends at the parking lot. Between the levee and the parking lot entrance is the
only short, (20-foot stretch) that's actually on the street.
    
For more information, call the
Sacramento Transportation Management Association (916) 737-1513
or E-mail Us
Please note the TMA's new
mailing address: P O
Box 19520 Sacramento, CA 95819-0520
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06/15/08
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