Urban street redesigns require explicitly managing curb space to balance protected bike lanes, vehicle parking, and delivery access. Corridor projects commonly combine bike facility additions with curb management strategies and door-to-door outreach to local businesses about delivery and access needs. Much of the pavement used to create protected lanes was previously occupied by double-parked vehicles or long-term curb parking and secondary lanes used for deliveries and drop-offs. The rise of e-commerce and bike-based deliveries increases the need to plan freight routes alongside personal bike networks and to allocate curb space for both people and goods.
So something important to note that the bike network planners in our cities have known since I was one of them years ago, is that these corridor redesign projects often were curb management projects as well, and that they involved door-to-door outreach with local businesses around their delivery and access needs. And what you often found was that excess space you needed to sort of create something like a protected bike lane was currently used by a double parked vehicle or a delivery truck
it makes that discussion of a network more interesting or at least more difficult because you also have to have this discussion of where is like the freight network, right? So there's a bike
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