#contraflow — Public Fediverse posts

What do people use for cycling directions? I’ve usually used #GoogleMaps because it shows bike lanes, but #AppleMaps actually uses bike lanes correctly when creating directions. Seems especially true of #ContraFlow cycle tracks.

Example below showing a route that should use the new Winona bike lane.

#bikeTO #BikeTooter #BikeLane #cycleroute

I wrote an analysis of the City of Sydney's Bicycle contraflow streets, using OpenStreetMap data and Overpass Ultra (an Overpass Turbo alternative!)

Any suggestions or corrections are much appreciated.

https://jakecoppinger.com/2023/08/contraflow-streets-in-the-city-of-sydney/

#openstreetmap #overpassturbo #sydney #cycling #bicycles #contraflow #urbanism #safestreets #visionzero #betterstreets #data #datavis

Watching the world go by on a sunny summer day in Provincetown. #CapeCod #bicycle #BikeTooter #Provincetown #contraflow #safestreets

Recently the City of Sydney Local Pedestrian, Cycling and Traffic Calming Committee voted to allow contraflow cycling on 158 one-way streets across the LGA, making up 31.285 kilometres, including installing signage!

I’ve started updating OpenStreetMap where contraflow cycling is now legal on one way streets, suburb by suburb.

This will enable safer and more efficient bicycle routing by apps that use OSM data (TfNSW Trip Planner, Citymapper, Strava, Ride with GPS, Komoot, @organicmaps, Maps.me etc). If you ride a bike and don't use these you're missing out - the routes are better than Google or Apple maps!

Once I’m done I’ll write up a blog post at https://jakecoppinger.com (or a few Overpass Turbo queries at a minimum) looking at how many of the contraflow cycling lanes emerged as a result of this CoS change - and which one way streets didn't make the cut.

https://meetings.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?AIId=14553

#sydney #openstreetmap #overpassturbo #geospatial #gis #contraflow #cycling #betterstreets

@VeLizipede

Here's an OpenStreetMap query that returns all oneway streets where bikes are explicitly allowed as contraflow, and where the contraflow is a painted green lane on the side. Works anywhere in the world, just click run!

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1r96

There's a number in Redfern in Sydney - here's some examples visually: https://safecyclingmap.com/#17.6/-33.89181/151.201507

I think City of Sydney proposed making all 1 way lanes contraflow by default. I'm not sure if it was part of this piece of work or something else: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/improving-streets-public-spaces/improving-contraflow-lanes-in-sydney

#cycling #melbourne #infrastructure #contraflow #openstreetmap #overpassturbo #urbanism #betterstreets #australia