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How might more bike infrastructure in Springfield mitigate the impact of…

- - - - bike crashes are becomming more common and there is majority of crashes on streets that have no infrastructure. With a growth in cyclists there is a growth in collsions so we need to find ways to mitigate the collison and injury risk. that being bike lanes
  - - - One of the major problems of collisons is that dirvers think they own the road and they dont listen to signs that say share the road or when there is a bike lane they are driing or parking in these lanes. one of the ways we can fix this is enfore laws as well as make seperates bike lanes so cars are not able to drive or park in them.
    - - Cyclists are supposed to share the road wheather moter speeds are low or high. byclists odviously feel safer when the speeds are lower because drivers are not speeding by and its safer for them. if we cant add bike infrastructre we can at least decrease the speeds.
  - - - The united states has less cyclists than other countries, too see a higher number of cyclists we need to see bike infrastructyre because people will use it if they build it
- - - - It has been proven that physical activity benifits mental and physical health. adding bike infrastructure will help people move more because they feel safe to do so. so not only does it make people safer it makes people move more and benfitis the climate
  - - - bikers most use cycle tracks and bike lanes because thats where they feel safe, there are less crashes and collisons on bike infrastructure.
    - - half of boston residents want to bike and want to have that avalable to them. They are able to bike now but one thing that is lacking is safty and the citizens of boston agree that they would rather remove some parking to have the safty avalavle for them tp be able to bike and not worry about the collisons
  - - - Canada and other countries outside the united states can see many benfitits to adding infratructure because when you have safe places for peple to use they will use it more. What they found was that even a few trips being changed from moter vehicle to a human powered vehicle can go along way and help change the environment.
    - - Boston ( Massachussets and the united states overall as well) has alot of emmisons coming from transportation. They know that with an increase in infrastructure there will be an increase in people using it and that will help decrease some of the transportation greenhouse gas emmisons.
- - - - Bike lanes are showing worse results than Seperates bicycle tracks are showing. one reason for that may be its harder for cars to get over the seperated cycle tracks and its easier to get into bike lanes becasue they are just apart of the road
    - - For an area like a roundabout it is not benificial for bike lanes to be included in the design. it is more benifical for there to be a seperated cycle track outside of the roudabot for the safty of the peoople.
  - - - While driving people are more likley to pay attention when there is a color other than white painted on the ground. People are. used to seeing white ont the streets so they are less likley to pay attention look to see what it is for causing collisons to happpen. when paint of another color is added there is an increase in people looking at the road and paying attention.
    - - They added multipe colors to roads and they all saw good resluts other than white because people are used to seeing white.
  - - - cyclists do not feel safe on high volume streets where cars are going fast speeds and driving more recklessly. Bike infrastcture especially on these streets will help alot because the cyclists dont have to share the road with moter vehicles and the road overall becomes safer. when high volume streets did impleemnt bike infrastruclre they saw almost a 50% decrease in collison and injury
    - - in a study conducted around roudabouts they found that when speed limits were higher there is more of a danger for bikers. so when we are thibking about where bike infrastructure should be implemented and benifit the most high volume streets shoule be near the top of the list because we will see a large decrease in collsions, mot studes show by at least 50%
- - - - G3- "Cyclist ksi declined by 17 within the bike share zone after one year of operation"
        
        They are seeing positive resluts quickly. in just a year they are seeing declines and postive results from adding bike infrastructure to cities
      - G1- "found bicycle lanes were associated with reduced crash odds of 48% in streets segments adjacent to 4 exit intersections, of 40% in streets with one or two way stop intersections and of 43% in high traffic volume streets."
        
        Bicycle lanes are decreasing street collisons and injuries by almost 50% when they are implemented
    - - G4- "The following 5 route types had significantly lower risk in the unadjusted analysis: major streets without parked cars and and with no bike infrastructure, major streets without parked cars and with bike lanes, local streets with no infrastructure, local streets designed as bike routes and cycle tracks"
        
        Springfield has many streets that could benifit from bike infratruture. we have many 4 lane high volume streets like Parker st, State st, and Boston rd. Springfield has started implementing bike lanes in some places like bay st where there is alot of people on foot and on car. they also added color so ive also seen people pay more attention while driving.
      - Springfield has dangerous streets, for everyone. we have people driving crazy on high volime streets which are also the streets where people are biking and walking to get to the same places. if we implement bike infrastructure it will make cyclists safer because they dont have to take side walks away from pedestrians and they dont have to bike in streets where they are unsafe. m m
        
        G9- " MassDOT's crash data indicate that Springfield's streets aren't just dangerous for pedestrians: the city is home to about 2.2 percent of the Commonwealth’s population, but the 2,883 injury- or death-causing crashes that happened in the city during 2020 and 2021 represent about 5.9 percent of the Commonwealth’s total number of serious crashes."
        
        G9- "In 2021, four of Springfield's 9 pedestrian deaths occurred on just one street: State Street, a four-lane arterial that extends east from the city's downtown area and divides residential neighborhoods that are home to high proportions of Black and Hispanic residents."
    - - G3- NEW YORK"Continue to implement 50 lane miles of bicycle facilities a year, including at least ten lane miles of protected bicycle lanes"
        "Create or enhance 75 lane miles of bicycle facilities in Priority Bicycle Districts by 2022"
        
        Therre are many cities aroud us and many big cicties implemeting bike lanes into there future plans. they see all of the benifits from heath to climate to bliss. and they know that when they implementet bike infrastructure people will use it.
      - G7- "Build speed humps in 30 neighborhood zones, starting with ten neighborhood zones next year. "
        "Grow our public bike share (Bluebikes) by 40 percent, adding more than 100 new stations. "
        "Expand our bike network so that 50 percent of residents will be a 3-minute walk from a safe and connected bike route, prioritizing links with a history of safety incidents. "
      - G1- PHILADELPHIA "in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia has invested in substantial new infrastructure, has an increasing volume of cyclists, a variety of road types, and a relatively high number of collision across a variety of types of road conditions."