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Bike Paths and Racks

Opening context:
Local Transport Areas, Looped Local Roads, Network of Learning

Conflict

Bikes are cheap, healthy, and good for the environment; but the environment is not designed for them. Bikes on roads are threatened by cars; bikes on paths threaten pedestrians.

Resolution

Build a system of paths designed as bike paths, with the following properties: the bike paths are marked clearly with a special, easily recognisable surface (for example, a red asphalt surface). As far as possible they run along local roads, or major pedestrian paths. Where a bike path runs along a local road, its surface may be level with the road — if possible, on the sunny side; where a bike path runs along a pedestrian path, keep it separate from that path and a few inches below it. Bring the system of bike paths to within 100 feet of every building, and give every building a bike rack near its main entrance.

Closing context:
Main Entrance, Quiet Backs, Garden Wall