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thi is SouthEast Lincoln that we are standing on here

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and the Southeast Lincoln Bike Boulevard is really cool

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because it's like a metaphore for all that what we've done in Portland in the eighties.

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South East Lincoln here was we called called a traffic collector

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There was quite a bit of auto traffic on the street

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and it was a major ? affair

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and in the late eighties and early nineties

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the city really with pressure from neighborhood and citizens

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turns this street as well as a number of other streets into what we call bicycle boulevards

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where we did traffic coming? elements to make

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the street more livable

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and slower traffic, reduced traffic,

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and much more friendly for bicycles and pedestrians.

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So let me tell you what we did to the street

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at a couple of key points on the street, at Southeast 39, two blocks this way

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and South East 20, which is about a mile that away

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we put in what we call traffic divertors

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and so traffic as to turn.

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One of the biggest challenges to develop a bike boulevard

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is you can't make it easy for cars to get onto the bike boulevard out of a busy street.

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If you fail to make this kind of improvement,

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what will happen is that you will have a lot of more cars on the bike boulevard.

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We don't want a lot of car on our bike boulevard.

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So we do this little dislocation

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is only allow car to come out of the local service street on the 39

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but we don't allow cars to come in from 39 onto Clinton

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In this case, the project has worked really well.

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It's made so that bicyclists can pass through easily

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but it keeps cars off and actually acts as a good treatment

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and diverts cars that would otherwise be on this facilities.

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We also put in things that slow traffic down,

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which includes the traffic circle that you can see over there

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and speed bumps along the street to slow traffic down

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so that the speed of cars is prety similar to the speed of cyclists

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which create a more confortable environment for everyone

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and then more recently we put in signs and circles to identify the street

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as well as other a Bike Boulevards, has been part of this special Boulevard Network.

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People are very concerned about diverting traffic off from a street.

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"How they gonna get to there houses?"

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And that "it might cause traffic on other streets to go out".

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So, and this was what happened here,

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there was a lot of fights, it was a difficult project,

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and what happen as a result is also very similar to what hapens in many other cities,

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and that it's so pleasant afterwards that properties values stear? up?

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are becomes wonderfull terfair?? for people walking their dog and jogging

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it's "very" part of the street

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for bicycling, for people walking, for kids to be out of the bounds.

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and it's just become this wonderfull community street.