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BICYCLING AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS
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Location: Highway
Need: High

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Fuller Road Arterial
Filename: View FullerAlbany.mpg      videoDownload
Location: Albany
Synopsis: This arterial highway receives a large volume of vehicular traffic with very little accommodation of bicyclists.

Disappearing Shoulders
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Location: Suffolk County
Synopsis: Sometimes there is little room for the cyclists when shoulders vanish and turn lanes appear.

Erie Canal Trail
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Location: Monroe County
Synopsis: Most paths or trails must cross a road at some point. Here is an example in the metropolitan area of Rochester. How is this situation dealt with in a cost effective way?

Pathways
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Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN and New York City
Synopsis: The first half of the clip shows a couple of pathways in Minneapolis/St. Paul and the second half brings us to the West Side Pathway on Manhattan

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Bike Lane Gives Way to Suburbia
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Location: Western Avenue, Albany
Synopsis: The bike lane ends, giving way to commercial strip development that is catered only to motorists.

Bike Route in Highway
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Location: Western Ave, Albany
Synopsis: Integrating bike lanes with a major route in Albany can be done. With a little more maintenance, this route could be even more attractive to use by the cyclist.

Commercial Strip Development
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Location: Schenectady
Synopsis: Cyclists are, unfortunately, excluded from this commercial strip development.

 

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