{"id":13115,"date":"2018-03-04T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13115"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:29","slug":"why-nbg-anchor-cities-can-finally-feature-dedicated-bike-lanes-as-a-way-to-connect-the-coasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/03\/04\/why-nbg-anchor-cities-can-finally-feature-dedicated-bike-lanes-as-a-way-to-connect-the-coasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NBG Anchor cities can finally feature dedicated bike lanes as a way to connect the coasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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W<\/strong><\/span>hile Ellen Fletcher, once the top bike activist in the world (who I did a podcast with HERE<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 before she passed on) was becoming the most popular politician in Palo Alto because people there had grown weary of John Forester\u2019s machismo approach to cycling, the old leadership at the League of American Cyclists was busy establishing him as its standard bearer. He had convinced them that they needed to certify\u00a0serious cyclists using the book on\u00a0Vehicular Cycling he had written called<\/span><\/span>\u00a0“Effective Cycling”.\u00a0 As such, the League and Forester had made it clear that our coast to coast bikeway that made use of bike lanes and off road greenways was not to be considered as worthy for its dues paying members.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Besides LAB’s lack of interest, there was another force working against the cyclist who wanted to go for a leisurely bike ride.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Lance Armstrong. Armstrong\u00a0 made the American public think that the non smiling\u00a0 cyclists dressed in lycra\u00a0 taking the lane were on some kind of important mission, a<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0“training ride”.\u00a0 And that any other kind of cycle trip was frivolous, not to be regarded\u00a0 as important. Glorified like a king, and seen as the face of cycling, Lance had achieved his fame and fortune\u00a0 from the same road their cars were using, why then should anything have to change to make it easier for\u00a0all these\u00a0 cyclists doing their non essential jaunts?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Well now that Lance has gone away and the folly of the Forester\u00a0method\u00a0 is now being seen for what it was, the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway<\/span><\/span><\/span> is now poised to become a force too impossible to ignore. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Having lived in both Palo Alto for a decade and Davis where the bike lane was first introduced to America, I have observed the part infrastructure, local politics and one man\u2019s strong personality have played in shaping how and where we ride our bicycles. In making the National Bicycle Greenway real, as its director, I have moved to Indianapolis where Carl Fisher ran the Linclon Highway movement that connected the coasts with its first car highway. And where <\/span><\/span>Ray Irvin<\/span><\/span><\/span> turned a dying rust belt city into the Greenway Capital of America!! Sure seems like a formula for no doubt about it NBG success!! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is what the Streets Blog people are saying about why it has taken so long for both bike lanes and dedicated bike lanes to become accepted.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Btw: In case you missed it,\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong> is more on why the NBG moved to Indianapolis\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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