Bike Tarrytown

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Improving the economy & health of Sleepy Hollow & Tarrytown by fostering better transportation. (Repost. Liking does nothing.)

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Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 6h

Even better arterial design...

Title: Same Capacity, so Much Safer.

Top Image: Streetview image (looking in the direction of travel) of 4 motor vehicle lanes approaching a signal controlled intersection. (Left turn lane, 2 through lanes, right turn lane.) 2 motor vehicle lanes are heading the opposite direction are on the other side of a narrow median.

Bottom Image: same street that's one lane per direction, with a wide median creating a chicane like curve approaching the intersection. Intersection is kind of like a roundabout. Has a 2 head signal to stop vehicles on the main road if the intersection gets congested.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 6h

Mounted it. New this time, I added car door edge protector strips to prevent the aluminum back's corners from cutting the canvas (which you can see in the old pannier).

Photo of door edge protector on corner of metal plate in my pannier.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 18h

Got the webbing on. Sewing the first pannier is complete!

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 1d

Utrecht doing deep motor vehicle decarbonization.

Text: Plan for the traffic you want, not the traffic you have. Daily travel choices are flexible. Left photo: Potterstraat, Utrecht, 2022. Photo of a downtown street. From left to right... Can't really see the sidewalk, but there are a some folks on it. 14 people cycling toward us on a wide separated bike lane. 2 people walking toward us on a wide bus stop island. 3 buses driving on a 2 lane wide roadbed. Only a sliver of the right and bus stop island, bike lane and sidewalk are visible. Right photo: Potterstraat, Utrecht, 1968. Photo of the same street. From left to right... 7 people are walking on the left sidewalk. 2 people are riding motor scooters in the separated bike lane. Many people standing on a narrow bus stop island. A 4 lane wide roadbed, filled with folks driving 20 cars and vans, plus one bus. A few people waiting on a narrow bus island. 5 people cycling in a separated bike lane. Can't see much of the sidewalk.

Before and after photos of Paardenveld in Utrecht.
Top photo, 2018: Loads of people lounging in a park next to a canal. Bicycles are parked in the foreground.
Bottom photo, 2009: A 4 lane roadway.

Title on top: Plan for the traffic you want, not the traffic you have.

Left photo: Blauwkapelseweg, Utrecht, 2020. Photo of a city street. From left to right... Houses, wide sidewalk, cycle path, trees, narrow two way street with a bus in the near lane.
Right photo: Blauwkapelseweg, Utrecht, 1982. Photo of the same street. From left to right... Houses, wide sidewalk, wide two way street with a bus in the near lane.

Sub-title on bottom: Daily travel choices are flexible.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 1d

Making progress on sewing my pannier rebuild. 16 oz canvas, Tex 210 size thread. (Pencil for scale.)

Photo of the above mentioned items being sewn together.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 2d

After 35 years, the canvas on my home made rear panniers got to the point where the holes were just too much. Here's the fabric for the next generation.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 2d

Check out THIS cargo bike.

Photo of an adult tricycle, which has a wide passenger seat above the back wheels. More interestingly,the owner has attached two bars that stick 3 feet out the back, on which a plastic cargo pallet is attached.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 6d

Yes! Really enjoyed seeing that too while visiting Utrecht.

Photo of a mother and daughter sitting on a picnic bench in the parking space in the street. A friend is standing next to them talking with them.

Photo of someone barbecuing in a small residential street that is blocked off. The light post has a lovely lamp shade placed over it. Behind a shrub on the sidewalk you can see some benches with people sitting at them. But you can't see is that there is a table there where they are eating.

Photograph of a small residential street with people sitting on benches and chairs in front of each house.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 7d

Very nice! Wish it was even more inclusive bt having some adaptive cycles.

Title: Safe Streets Mean Mobility for All Collage of photos of disabled and elderly people on various wheeled devices (wheelchairs, hand cycles, mobility scooters, bicycles, tricycles). Some of them are doing it in the snow.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 10d

USA is a 4th world country. One train per hour on weekday morning reverse peak.

Screenshot of MTA TrainTime app. Showing trips on 8/17 between Philipse Manor and Croton Harmon. Departures at 10:09 am, 9:10 am, 8:38 am.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 12d

Tappan Zee Bridge ALERT: the tire pump on the Rockland side is broken. We reported it to the Thruway Authority. Disappointing material choices by Dero.

Photo of a broken public bicycle tire pump made by Dero.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 14d

💯. Change is scary.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 14d

Great social ride to Irvington. Beautiful night. Amazing new stage. Fun music by the Femme Fighters.

Photo of 3 of us sitting on the ground, in front of a stage in a park at sunset.

Photo of a wide section of the Hudson River. The sun has just dropped below the Palisades across the river. The water is calm, reflecting the lovely sky.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 15d

That's fantastic! Hope Empire State Trail and East Coast Greenway get officially routed here. (Existing route blows -- convoluted and hilly.) Still need to tame Broadway there. Way too wide, so much reckless driving, and so ugly. Wrote Mamdani about our proposal on 1/14.

Cross section diagrams of existing conditions on Broadway at W 242nd St in the Bronx, and our proposal that makes it a safe, welcoming place. Existing has 9 lanes for motor vehicles. Proposed has 1 moving lane and 1 parking lane in each direction. The rest of the space is used for a linear plaza with food trucks, a 2-way protected bike lane.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 19d

Modal filtering FTW. Oceanview Ave. Long Beach, NY.

Photo of a small residential street with two story beach houses on each side. Across the intersection is a planter with a do not enter sign on it. Two people are cycling in front of me. On the left is a family doing lemonade stand.

Photo of a small residential street with two story beach houses on each side. 4 people are cycling in front of me. On the left are 2 people talking, 1 w baby stroller, other w dog.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 19d

Look at this great place. It used to be this beach town bar's parking lot.

Photograph of like fifty people hanging out in a bar's patio area, at tables under umbrellas and listening to music.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· 29d

Bee-Line buses (Westchester County) fare box updates: • $ bill reader install under way, done by 8/31. • OMNY in place. • No more Metro Cards on 7/20.

Photo of a bus with a poster on it saying "A bus is just a limo full of friends you haven't met yet."

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jul 12

N 3rd St in Harrisburg PA has game.

Photograph of an old urban residential street. In front of this house are some chairs and tables for people to congregate at.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jul 11

Make the Safest Thing to Do the Easiest Thing to Do

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jul 7

Excellent curb extensions, plus bioswales on this corner of N 3rd St in Harrisburg PA. Note the channels, which are a great alternative to extra storm drain work.

Photo of an urban street corner. The side street has been made very narrow at the intersection, maybe ten feet wide.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jul 7

Dude uses a bike to haul his window washing gear. FTW! In Harrisburg PA.

A Bodywel small, step through electric bike. A 5 gallon bucket on the sidewalk, along with brushes and poles.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jul 5

The bike share in Harrisburg PA (Susquecycle) is shut down from 1 am to 10 am? 🤦

Screenshot of the Movatic app showing details of the Transportation Center dock. Including the hours mentioned in the post.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jul 2

Whoooo weeeeee...

Photograph of a thermometer showing one hundred two degrees fahrenheit

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 22

Luis Zhizhpon's ghost bike is up for his memorial week.

Photo of a decommissioned bicycle painted white, leaning against a gardening pole, next to a garden on a traffic island. Plaque on the bike has a photo of the deceased. Text says: Luis Ángel Zhizhpon Quinde Son, Brother, Nephew, Friend March 4, 1982 — June 25, 2012 Dedicated June 25, 2022

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 18

More Choices More Customers More people can get to your store when walking and cycling are safe options.

Text: More Choices More Customers

Photo: Woman riding away from us along a 2-way protected bicycle lane. Three people with bikes walking up to the side entrance of a restaurant.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 18

So true.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 17

More People More Profits People spend money. Cars don't. Making more nice places for people to hang out downtown means more people will patronize the shops there.

Text: More People More Profits

Photo: A commercial street with store fronts. Many people are walking on the sidewalk. People are sitting on a planter/bench that has been placed in a parking space.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 14

Montgomery County is doing great work. Here is one of our favorites, at Weller Rd at Hathaway Dr. But they have so much more that needs doing. Wish their budget was 200x bigger.

Photo of an intersection of two suburban streets. It has been traffic calmed by putting curb extensions on all the corners and median refuge islands on the main street.

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 12

People Biking Buy More Each Month

Bike Tarrytown@biketarrytown· Jun 6

Contrary to popular belief, delivery cyclists better behaved than civilians. But, no surprise, bike lanes get cyclists off of sidewalks.