In Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, bike infrastructure is identified as one of the top 80 solutions for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The book finds that in 2014, 5.5 percent of urban trips worldwide were by bicycle. If that number grew to 7.5 percent by 2050, displacing some 2.2 trillion passenger miles completed by vehicles, some 2.2 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided, realizing approximately $400 billion savings over the next 30 years. What are the most important steps cities and communities can take to rapidly grow bike use?
Most people just don’t feel safe bicycling, which is the greatest disincentive. We spent nearly a century in this country building a transportation system that essentially only caters to people who are driving motor vehicles. We have a system that fundamentally doesn’t support bicycling.
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Northampton Main Street redesign a ‘once in a generation’ chance
A rendering of how downtown Northampton could be redesigned. TOOLE DESIGN
The city has a website at tinyurl.com/picturemainstreet with information about the redesign project. SCREENSHOT/CITY OF NORTHAMPTON
Published: 4/16/2021 5:52:03 PM
NORTHAMPTON The city continued its talks on a long-term redesign of Main Street this week, drawing more than 100 people to a virtual public forum where residents and business owners discussed everything from parking, bicycle safety and traffic to accessibility, trees and climate change.
Mayor David Narkewicz described the project as a “once in a generation opportunity,” and said by the end of the year, the city hopes to finalize a plan for the project, which is expected to see more than $16 million in state and federal funding in fiscal 2025.
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NORRIS Many trails 87 miles total make up the Norris Lake Area Trail System (NATS) around Norris Lake.
They will give hikers and and, in some places, cyclists or horseback riders a variety of different paths to explore through woods, up hills and around the shores of Norris Lake. The trails are within 15 miles of each other, an official website for the system stated.
All are free and open to the public, a news release stated.
On Friday, April 9, officials from the TVA and the involved parks and counties cut a ribbon announcing the trail system, attracting reporters from various media outlets. They met at Norris Dam State Park’s Picnic Shelter One on the east side of the park near the Tea Room in the older portion of the park. Many of the system s paths already exist in Anderson County Park, Big Ridge State Park, Loyston Point, Norris Dam State Park and Norris Dam’s Songbird Trail, as explained on the trail system s website. However, the NATS will unite the tra
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