#bikepaths — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bikepaths, aggregated by home.social.
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It is not a fuel crisis,
it is a fossil fuel crisis!Oh dear, We forgot to transition our mobility system
Go e-anything now without the matching active mobility infrastructure.This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it. >>
https://theconversation.com/this-fuel-crisis-could-last-for-a-while-its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-fuel-use-end-it-280454#MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #CarDependency #oil #war #CarMinds #HabitFormation #idling #speeding #EnergyTransition #infrastructure #machinery #ActiveMobility #sprawl #walkability #bikepaths #EMobility #ClimateCrisis
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It is not a fuel crisis,
it is a fossil fuel crisis!Oh dear, We forgot to transition our mobility system
Go e-anything now without the matching active mobility infrastructure.This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it. >>
https://theconversation.com/this-fuel-crisis-could-last-for-a-while-its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-fuel-use-end-it-280454#MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #CarDependency #oil #war #CarMinds #HabitFormation #idling #speeding #EnergyTransition #infrastructure #machinery #ActiveMobility #sprawl #walkability #bikepaths #EMobility #ClimateCrisis
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It is not a fuel crisis,
it is a fossil fuel crisis!Oh dear, We forgot to transition our mobility system
Go e-anything now without the matching active mobility infrastructure.This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it. >>
https://theconversation.com/this-fuel-crisis-could-last-for-a-while-its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-fuel-use-end-it-280454#MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #CarDependency #oil #war #CarMinds #HabitFormation #idling #speeding #EnergyTransition #infrastructure #machinery #ActiveMobility #sprawl #walkability #bikepaths #EMobility #ClimateCrisis
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It is not a fuel crisis,
it is a fossil fuel crisis!Oh dear, We forgot to transition our mobility system
Go e-anything now without the matching active mobility infrastructure.This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it. >>
https://theconversation.com/this-fuel-crisis-could-last-for-a-while-its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-fuel-use-end-it-280454#MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #CarDependency #oil #war #CarMinds #HabitFormation #idling #speeding #EnergyTransition #infrastructure #machinery #ActiveMobility #sprawl #walkability #bikepaths #EMobility #ClimateCrisis
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It is not a fuel crisis,
it is a fossil fuel crisis!Oh dear, We forgot to transition our mobility system
Go e-anything now without the matching active mobility infrastructure.This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it. >>
https://theconversation.com/this-fuel-crisis-could-last-for-a-while-its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-fuel-use-end-it-280454#MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #CarDependency #oil #war #CarMinds #HabitFormation #idling #speeding #EnergyTransition #infrastructure #machinery #ActiveMobility #sprawl #walkability #bikepaths #EMobility #ClimateCrisis
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Virtual Event - #MaineBikePed Monthly Meetups
January 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
"Join us for Monthly Maine Bike Ped Meetups! Across Maine, local bike/ped committees, planning commissions, non-profits, and volunteers are working hard to improve safe, enjoyable, and practical active and #AlternateTransportation options. But we aren’t always talking to one another! In these virtual monthly meetings, we hope we can learn from each other’s successes and challenges, get advice, and share resources in a casual setting – a forum for those already active in the bike/ped world, as well as for those who are curious about the current work being done or who want to start their own local conversations. Meetings recur every third Monday of the month at 4 PM via Zoom (FMI at link below). Meetings will be ~45 minutes and will consist of introductions, share outs, and time for questions! I’ll be there to facilitate and help connect folks with resources."
https://www.bikemaine.org/event/maine-bike-ped-monthly-meetups/2026-01-19/
#SolarPunkSunday #Maine #BikeTooter #BicycleSafety #BicycleCoalitionOfMaine #SolarPunkSunday #BikeLanes #BicycleSafety #PedestrianSafety #WalkerSafety #WalkableCities #CriticalMass #BCM #Trails #BikePaths
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#Urban #WildlifeCorridors Help Mitigate #Climate Effects
Kyle Chan February 26, 2025
Excerpt: "#GreenCorridors offer a promising start to mitigating these urban issues, allowing cities to naturally lower temperatures through evapotranspiration, a plant process that releases water vapor to cool the surrounding air. Increased vegetation will also allow more hazardous particulate matter (PM2.5) and carbon dioxide (CO2) to be absorbed, reducing greenhouse gas concentration and improving air quality.
"#Columbia’s second-largest city, #Medellín, launched a green corridor initiative in 2016. Since then, environmental planners there added rows of vegetation along the most polluted avenues, maximizing the amount of CO2 intake from their $16.8 million investment. Maurício Correa, a researcher studying environmental engineering at a Colombian University, found that the 8,800 trees planted became effective 'green barriers' against particulate matter and reduced average city temperature by two degrees Celsius.
"Fighting #ClimateChange isn’t the only thing green corridors can do. Historically, #wildlife has rarely been welcomed into urban life, experiencing drastic changes in the #ecosystem. However, nature-based infrastructure can promote #biodiversity and provide animal species with a safe habitat. Green corridors are indeed multi-purpose and flexible. To maximize the limited space in busy cities, green corridors can function as recreational centers, city facilities and much more—all while mitigating climate change.
"Green corridors can be an effective solution for any city anywhere. In #NewYork, the #ManhattanWaterfrontGreenway consists of almost 32 miles of #BikePath lined with various plant species. Urban '#NatureWays' in #Singapore mimic the natural #rainforests by incorporating trees with #canopies stretching across the roads."
Read more:
https://emagazine.com/urban-wildlife-corridors-help-mitigate-climate-effects/#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanRewilding #GardeningForPollinators #Nature #UrbanWildlife #GreenCities #GreenSpace #BikePaths
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Live in #TeWhanganuiATara #Wellington? Think it’s perhaps not all about cars? Love spending your time tapping forcefully on keyboards?
Here’s yet another opportunity to tell the big end of town what kind of city you want. They are keen on 1970s LA concrete salad. Scaling a city around cars has it all wrong. I’ll admit I’m a bit partial to a tunnel (Norway, the Faroes, Seatoun 🤓) but the economics here is off the chart in the wrong direction. Give us #publictransport, #bikepaths #walkways.
2 days to go
https://nzta.mysocialpinpoint.com/SH1-Wellington-Improvements-project-engagement-survey
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For all those bicyclist voters in #CambridgeMA attached find a useful graphic from Cambridge Bike Safety regarding the candidate's support of safe streets.
Remember, in ranked choice voting it's important to NOT rank any candidate whom you would NOT want to see voted in.
#Bike #BikePaths #BikeSafety #BikeCommuting -
"I grew up in Grand Prairie, not a huge biking city. I had no idea bike infrastructure even existed until I moved to Vancouver & saw my first separated #BikePaths. I was like, 'oh my God! You could just do this!' Since then, I've biked my entire adult life as my main mode of transportation." #yyc
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jfr7qhenekca6f6qtjgwdr4/post/3lyzya54ve22m -
At about 10 miles long, the Norwottuck Rail Trail connects Northampton and Amherst, MA.
There are little spots to pull off to discover meadows, woods, and scenic sitting areas.
Like this one.
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"The Eastern Trail is a 62 mile multi-use, non-motorized greenway, that connects Bug Light in Casco Bay, South Portland to Kittery, Maine. Approximately thirty percent of the trail is off-road, and the trail is a part of the #EastCoastGreenway which will eventually connect #CalaisMaine to #KeyWestFlorida, approximately 3000 miles. The Eastern Trail is currently composed of 21 miles of off-road trails on the former Eastern Railroad bed with the remainder 41 miles on public roads.
"The entirety of the Eastern Trail is built to ADA standards. The trail surface varies between pavement and stone dust/gravel. Most of the trail is 10-12 feet wide, with some sections with an 8-foot width. There is a 30-inch opening between the bollards at entrances to keep out motorized vehicles, but wide enough to allow access for wheelchairs.
"The off-road section connecting Scarbrough to Saco privdes access to the 2200-acre Scarborough Marsh, which is Maine's largest salt marsh. Heading north on the trail from Pine Point (ME-9) or south from Eastern Road in Scarborough provides access to this 2.5 mile stretch of trail.
"Heading south from Pine Point Road, the trail crosses the York County and Cumberland County boundaries and users can walk/bike from Scarborough, through Old Orchard Beach to Saco, where the current-off-road trail ends at Thornton Academy in Saco, approximately 6 miles from the Pine Point kiosk.
"There are kiosks at 3 parking areas, that give some history and points of interest along the trail. For example, the Eastern Trail is built on the old Eastern #Railroad line that was built in 1840 and abandoned in 1945. Also, Charles Lindberg flew into the now abandoned Scarborough airport several times. And, a trestle once carried open air trolleys from the rail line to Old Orchard Beach for summer tourists."
Source and FMI:
https://www.mainetrailfinder.com/trails/trail/eastern-trail-saco-to-scarboroughEastern Trail Guide (downloadable PDF and booklets): https://www.easterntrail.org/eastern-trail-maps/
#SolarPunkSunday #MaineTrails #MaineByFoot #MaineByBicycle #Nature #SouthernMaine #AccessibleTrails #BikePaths #EasternTrail #AbandonedRailroads #RailsToTrails
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OPINION:
Slow Down on Our #BikePaths!Our #bikelanes have become what social critic Ivan Illich once defined as degraded #publicspace. Here's one possible fix.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/opinion-slow-down-on-our-bike-paths
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Our #TuesdayTrivia question this week involves the Eco-Counters that are located on about 32 bike paths / lanes/ trails around Montgomery County, MD. So far this year - How many👨🦽🚶♀️🏃🚴♂️have been recorded using these bike lanes / paths / trails❓
A. 1,049,220
B. 2,608,935
C. 948,663
D. 3,001,208
#montgomerycountymd #bikelanes #bikepaths #walking #running #transportation #weekend #pedestrians -
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In a #Cleveland suburb, this old #CoalPlant will soon be replaced by a massive #SolarFarm
Inside Climate News
July 26, 2024"#CoalFired power plant that started running more than a century ago is about to get a long-overdue retirement, and its electricity will be replaced by a solar farm and a #BatteryStorage system on an existing #brownfield.
"The project in #PainesvilleOhio, a suburb of Cleveland, is one of about two dozen clean energy and emissions-reduction initiatives across the country that are sharing $4.3 billion in funding announced on Monday by the #BidenAdministration.
"It was a happy day for Doug Lewis, Painesville’s city manager. He and his colleagues have been considering how to close the city-owned power plant and replace it with a cleaner alternative. They also have wanted to redevelop the site of a long-shuttered #chemical factory near the shores of Lake Erie.
"The federal government will now pay about $80 million to install solar and batteries on the former factory land and to beautify the rest of the brownfield by planting a #meadow of #wildflowers and constructing a #BikeTrail. The trail will provide a connection between Painesville and a regional trail that runs along the lake.
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"The solar farm will have capacity of 35 megawatts and the battery storage system will have capacity of 10 megawatts. It will be capable of running for three hours at that level before recharging.
"The new construction will be on land that once was home to the Diamond Shamrock Corp. chemical plant, which operated there from 1912 to 1977 and occupied about 1,100 acres. The plant’s products included baking soda, chromium compounds, and hydrochloric and sulfuric acids.
"Since the site closed, the community and the federal government have gone through the slow and trying process of removing #pollutants to make it site safe for redevelopment.
The current project can serve as a case study for many things, including regional cooperation. Painesville, in Lake County, worked with officials in neighboring Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland city government to file an application with the federal government that included #RenewableEnergy projects for all of them."
#SolarFarms
#RenewablesNow
#RenewableEnergy
#LocalEnergy
#NoNewNukes
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The Newport good line bicycle bridge (aka. "Brooklyn Bridge") on the Federation Trail opened in 2014 after decades of advocacy from cyclist groups.
It was closed for 4yrs in July 2018 for Westgate Tunnel freeway works to allow them to widen the freeway to 12 lanes and build a tunnel entry for the new tunnel.
The 2km detour around this bridge is on a dangerous 60km/hr road with trucks and without any bicycle infrastructure. It's completely unusable . Nothing has been done to improve this detour for the entire closure of this bridge.
As of tomorrow (17th July) the bridge will have been closed for 6yrs and the indication is that it won't be open for at least another year.
Lots of improvements are being made to connect the Federation Trail through to the city, but none of them require this bridge to be closed. The bridge is and has been in a completely usable state for years. It only remains closed for the convenience of access for the freeway works.
Here is a video of the state of the bicycle bridge filmed in February this year.
#Melbourne #Bicycles #BikePaths #FederationTrail
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HEY, I know that path!
Some #ottBike content in this #StrongTowns piece on #BikePaths #MUP.
Nice to see Mastodon content grow and interests overlap.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/13/multi-use-paths-stroads-active-transportation-infrastructure
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The #HousingCrisis is very much a #RoadSafety issue. The only way to reduce serious & fatal #traffic #crashes is to reduce the amount of #KineticEnergy being transfered among roadway users.
Best way to do that? Reduce our dependence on big, heavy, fast cars.
Best way to do that? Build #communities & #infrastructure that help people get out of cars and onto #sidewalks, #BikePaths, & #transit.
Best way to do that? Build more housing for more people in more places that don't require a #car. -
the #ebike has a fresh charge, the #waterbottles have fresh water and there is some cool stuff on #craigslist to go check out; its time to get the #lectric ebike and go for a #ride. Its only about 7 miles away but because of the limited #bikelanes #bikepaths and #biketrails in the USA it will be a 20 mile ride. good thing I like my #bike and need the #exercise.