Tag Archives: safety

McCully Street Bike Lanes

At the beginning of the month, the City and County Department of Transportation Services gave a presentation at the McCully-Moiliili Neighborhood Board meeting concerning their plan to install bike lanes along McCully Street.  (The minutes will be available here.)  This is a plan that has been discussed for a while, going back at least to January.  Most news stories highlighted the removal of parking spots, such as Hawaii News Now (“McCully Street to get bike lanes, lose parking“) or the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (“McCully Street bike lanes to eliminate up to 30 parking spots“)  [You may notice in the Star-Advertiser URL that their original headline read “up to 80 parking spots”; the headline was corrected but not the sharable link.]

What’s unfortunate about these stories is that they missed an important aspect–that parking along McCully Street is unsafe and that the City and County would consider removing it whether or not bike lanes were added.  Continue reading →

Life In The Slow Lane

I recently had a new experience that opened my eyes to the way novice cyclists must feel when they first start out.  Traffic can be scary, especially when it’s fast moving and you’re in the middle of it.

Honolulu has several nice bike paths and many roads with bike lanes.  However, they are completely disjointed, with a couple miles here or there and stretches of unfriendly roads in between.  I normally can hold my own keeping up with traffic through these stretches (a fast Schwinn Paramount as a commuter certainly helps).  However, a couple things came together this fall that put me in the slow lane.

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