{"id":2095,"date":"2010-09-07T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:27:05","slug":"bikes-and-cars-traveling-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/09\/bikes-and-cars-traveling-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes and Cars, Traveling Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/06\/nyregion\/06broadway.html?scp=2&amp;sq=broadway&amp;st=cse\">New York continues to open its streets to all users<\/a>, rethinking its infrastrcutre in a way that makes the city enjoyable for more people, and a bit greener.<\/p>\n<p>There is hardly a more iconic street than Broadway and if you&#8217;re a cyclist, it&#8217;s where your dreams might in fact come true. After testing lane closures to make squares and bike routes, the city is making the closures official.<\/p>\n<p>Two quotes in the article caught my eye: &#8220;You do these things incrementally, and over time they build.&#8221; and &#8220;I think it was their strategy to introduce this piecemeal, see if it worked, and then go further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These comments remind me of what Richard Layman said in our Rethink Montgomery speakers series&#8211;that Amsterdam and Portland didn&#8217;t turn into bike-friendly cities overnight. It took 40 years of committed planning for something to simply become the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery has its own history of committed planning&#8211;from the Ag Reserve to Metro station redevelopment. Maybe it&#8217;s time to commit ourselves to a new way of thinking about streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">New York continues to open its streets to all users, rethinking its infrastrcutre in a way that makes the city enjoyable for more people, and a bit greener.<\/p>\n<p>There is hardly a more iconic street than Broadway and if you&#8217;re a cyclist, it&#8217;s where your dreams might in fact come true. After testing lane closures to make squares and bike routes, the city is making the closures official.<\/p>\n<p>Two quotes in the article caught my eye: &#8220;You do these things incrementally, and over time they build.&#8221; and &#8220;I think it was their strategy to introduce this piecemeal, see if it worked, and then go further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These comments remind me of what Richard Layman said in our Rethink Montgomery speakers &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/09\/bikes-and-cars-traveling-together\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11186,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}