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Downtown Houston Will Get Its First Protected Bike Lane

Houston's protected bike lane should look a lot like this one from Seattle. Photo: Seattle DOT, via Flickr
Houston's protected bike lane should look a lot like this one in Seattle. Photo: Seattle DOT/Flickr
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A piece of top-notch bike infrastructure is coming to the largest city in Texas.

That's the word today from Kevin McNally at Houston Tomorrow, who relays the news that a two-way protected bike lane is on tap for downtown:

The City of Houston will install the City’s first on-street protected bike lane along Lamar Street in Downtown, possibly as early as October, according to the Houston Chronicle’s Mike Morris. The two-way protected bike lane will help to connect Downtown to both the Buffalo Bayou trails and the Columbia Tap Trail.

The bike lane will be three-quarters of a mile long and will be painted green, the Houston Chronicle reports. It will be separated from car traffic by "armadillos," or hard, low-lying plastic bumps. McNally says:

Based on the description from the article, the bike lane should look similar to the above photo of a two-way protected bike lane in Seattle, with the exception being that the white plastic bollards will be replaced by plastic "armadillos" or "zebras" (see examples of those here).

Bike Houston Executive Director Michael Payne said the objective is to make "people feel comfortable" about biking and getting "out of their cars."

Elsewhere on the Network today: Washington Bikes shares a poll showing overwhelming support for Safe Routes to School among the state's residents. And Bike Portland reports that advocates in that region are trying to ensure that every school district has a Safe Routes to School program.

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