{"id":2416,"date":"2007-10-25T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2007-10-25T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T00:47:18","slug":"so-this-is-what-bike-friendly-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/25\/so-this-is-what-bike-friendly-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is what bike-friendly looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a little something for both the cycling aesthete and her\/his inner planning nerd over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sightline.org\/daily_score\/archive\/2007\/10\/23\/even-more-of-what-201cbike-friendly201d-looks-like-bicycle-neglect-11\">The Sightline Institute&#8217;s blog<\/a>. As someone who now regularly tows a two year-old behind him on his bike, I&#8217;m looking at how my bike fits in our streets in a whole new way and they&#8217;ve posted a couple of great (and pretty) think-pieces.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/archives\/portland-celebrating-americas-most-livable-city\/\">brilliant half-hour film <\/a>by New York-based StreetFilm on what makes Portland so bike-friendly (it&#8217;s 30 minutes, but worth the watch &#8212; you gotta love the all-way stop traffic signal triggered by a bike riding on top of a pad).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sightline.org\/resolveuid\/d000a7a6d29253aea5b8e0810873aec1\" alt=\"Copenhagen_sharedstreet\" height=\"351\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But Portland is blown away by Copenhagen, which is probably the most bike-friendly city in the developed world. And it&#8217;s not by accident, as you can see in the &#8220;elegantly illustrated&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sightline.org\/research\/sprawl\/res_pubs\/Livable_Copenhagen_reduced.pdf\">picture book on how to build a cycling city<\/a> (pdf) that they&#8217;ve posted by University of Washington planner Alyse Nelson (but who is also affiliated with the aptly named Centre for Public Space Research in Copenhagen).<\/p>\n<p>The big-picture stuff won&#8217;t be new to most cycle-planning fans, but it&#8217;s the gorgeous pictures and really detailed diagrams on how to integrate parking, bike lanes, pedestrians and (oh yeah, can&#8217;t forget about them) cars that make this worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe even worth sacrificing a (Forest Stewardship Council-certified) tree in order to print a few copies for City of Toronto traffic planners and developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a little something for both the cycling aesthete and her\/his inner planning nerd over at The Sightline Institute&#8217;s blog. 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