Would the "Green Wave" Make Spruce and Pine Even More Bike Friendly?

Streetsblog SF reports today that the Green Wave signal timing on Valencia St in San Francisco will be made permanent. Traffic lights are optimized for travel at 13mph which not only gives bicyclists all green lights but also encourages motorists to travel at the same speed, making those dangerous transitions from the bike lane to the motor vehicle lane less harrowing.


Spruce and Pine Streets would make great candidates for experimenting with the Green Wave in Philadelphia. Perhaps it could be piloted on one segment to measure its impact - i.e. Pine St between 13th and Front.



Photo: Bryan Goebel



Video of the Green Wave on Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen

Copenhagen - Bicycle Culture 2.0

While the US media continues to dig for something of substance on "Climategate", Streetfilms teamed up with Copenhagenize's Mikael Colville-Andersen to showcase the latest bicycle infrastructure innovations in Copenhagen: digital bicycle counters, in the ground LEDs, "the green wave" and cargo bike parking!



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Public Spaces, Public Life, A Presentation by Jan Gehl

For more than three decades Jan Gehl, a practicing Urban Design Consultant and Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been part of an effort to create animated public spaces and to transform the roadways of Copenhagen into pedestrian and bicycle friendly streets, while still providing for the car. He has advised numerous other European cities, worked extensively in Melbourne, Australia and is now helping the City of New York create new public spaces, "shared streets" and bicycle strategies.

As Philadelphia explores similar initiatives what are the lessons from other world cities?










Friday, December 5, 2008
8:30 -11 AM
AIA Center
1218 Arch Street

Continental breakfast 8:30 AM
Program starts 9:15 AM

This event, sponsored by the Center City District, is open to the public. RSVP by December 1st to Carol Raffa at craffa@centercityphila.org or call 215.440.5500.