![]() Be aware of people exiting or entering their vehicles who may be about to walk across the bikeway. Be ready to brake if a dog or kid darts across the lane or stops suddenly. While in a protected or buffered bike lane you may be separated from car traffic, but pedestrians and other people on bikes can pose potential hazards. Better to diagnose issues at home before they become a problem out on the road. A preventable mechanical issue might cause you to crash, which ultimately might cause someone else in the bike lane to crash, too. Bring along tools and supplies needed to fix a flat tire. Make sure your bike is in good working order, meaning your tires are pumped up, your brakes work, and your chain and shifters are working correctly. Choose a route according to the reasons you’re riding certain streets and bikeways are better for exercise and leisure than commuting for instance. Plan out your route in advance – take advantage of this new infrastructure built for you! Use Google’s bike directions, the 2020 New Orleans Bike Map and Guide to Safe Cycling, or your own knowledge and experience to identify a low-stress bike route to your destination.What do these new bike lanes mean for you? This year, Bike Easy has been leading a campaign with the New Orleans Complete Streets Coalition to install and activate 75 miles of connected and protected bikeways, as part of the City’s Moving New Orleans Bikes plan.Įven with these plans in place, we need to keep organizing and educating our community around the importance of bike safety infrastructure, and especially how to use it. These protected bike lanes are just the beginning. Have you enjoyed them yet? If you have any photos, email them to our Communications Coordinator, Elon at and we’ll feature them in our social media. safe, and fun biking on Elysian Fields looks like, and give you some practical pointers on how to navigate this new infrastructure whether biking and driving.īike Easy members and volunteers had a lot of fun riding the new bikeways in the photos above. Today, thankfully, Elysian Fields has brand-new protected bikeways in both directions on this same previously unsafe stretch, creating a vision and blueprint for the rest of Elysian Fields as well as the rest of New Orleans and the region. Not only will these protected bikeways keep our biking community safe, they make biking to and from downtown and the French Quarter easy, safe, and fun for residents and visitors.īut enough talking about it, we want to show you what easy. Claude, Elysian Fields Avenue saw 21 crashes involving people biking, with one ending in a loss of life. From 2014 to 2018, on the half-mile stretch from N. For years, it’s been one of New Orleans’ most dangerous streets. ![]()
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