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4 Provide infrastructure to support biking

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Photo: Ben Benschneider

Evidence Based Strategies

  • Where possible, provide bikeways within the street network.
  • Maximize connections to existing bicycle networks, including multiuse trails and greenways.

Best Practice Strategies

  • Provide secure indoor bicycle parking in the form of indoor racks or storage rooms to ensure security and weather protection, and provide outdoor bike racks. Offer bike valet services.
  • Provide locker rooms and showers, which facilitate cycling and other types of exercise and offer places to store helmets and gear.
  • Set up a bike-share program to provide access to bikes for residents or tenants on an as-needed basis, particularly if the project does not have access to a larger bikeshare network.

Sandra Kulli

President, Kulli Marketing
Malibu, California
 
  • After college, I taught school in Los Angeles. One year, my third-grade class was housed in a bungalow in Griffith Park. Living in Echo Park made it an easy bike ride to school. Three decades ago, that kind of behavior (bike riding to work) elicited this question almost daily: “Is your car broken?”
  • Fast forward to now. Designing healthy communities is what we all do. Teams everywhere understand a healthy focus wins big with our markets; from Daybreak/Utah where 83 percent of the kids walk or bike to school to Todos Santos/Mexico where wellness is front and center to our planning and marketing.

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Acknowledgements

The Center for Active Design served as contributing author and expert content advisor for this project.
The project was supported by the Colorado Health Foundation, the estate of Melvin Simon, and the ULI Foundation.

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