WEBVTT 00:00:09.051 --> 00:00:11.086 thi is SouthEast Lincoln that we are standing on here 00:00:11.086 --> 00:00:16.039 and the Southeast Lincoln Bike Boulevard is really cool 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:21.006 because it's like a metaphore for all that what we've done in Portland in the eighties. 00:00:21.006 --> 00:00:24.051 South East Lincoln here was we called called a traffic collector 00:00:24.051 --> 00:00:26.054 There was quite a bit of auto traffic on the street 00:00:26.054 --> 00:00:28.000 and it was a major ? affair 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.079 and in the late eighties and early nineties 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:34.049 the city really with pressure from neighborhood and citizens 00:00:34.052 --> 00:00:40.016 turns this street as well as a number of other streets into what we call bicycle boulevards 00:00:40.016 --> 00:00:42.084 where we did traffic coming? elements to make 00:00:42.084 --> 00:00:44.077 the street more livable 00:00:44.077 --> 00:00:48.043 and slower traffic, reduced traffic, 00:00:48.043 --> 00:00:51.010 and much more friendly for bicycles and pedestrians. 00:00:51.010 --> 00:00:53.005 So let me tell you what we did to the street 00:00:53.005 --> 00:00:58.013 at a couple of key points on the street, at Southeast 39, two blocks this way 00:00:58.013 --> 00:01:02.044 and South East 20, which is about a mile that away 00:01:02.044 --> 00:01:04.075 we put in what we call traffic divertors 00:01:04.075 --> 00:01:06.090 and so traffic as to turn. 00:01:06.090 --> 00:01:09.070 One of the biggest challenges to develop a bike boulevard 00:01:09.070 --> 00:01:15.037 is you can't make it easy for cars to get onto the bike boulevard out of a busy street. 00:01:15.037 --> 00:01:17.060 If you fail to make this kind of improvement, 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:20.098 what will happen is that you will have a lot of more cars on the bike boulevard. 00:01:20.098 --> 00:01:23.028 We don't want a lot of car on our bike boulevard. 00:01:23.028 --> 00:01:25.021 So we do this little dislocation 00:01:25.021 --> 00:01:28.044 is only allow car to come out of the local service street on the 39 00:01:28.044 --> 00:01:33.022 but we don't allow cars to come in from 39 onto Clinton 00:01:33.022 --> 00:01:35.068 In this case, the project has worked really well. 00:01:35.068 --> 00:01:39.021 It's made so that bicyclists can pass through easily 00:01:39.021 --> 00:01:43.027 but it keeps cars off and actually acts as a good treatment 00:01:43.027 --> 00:01:46.071 and diverts cars that would otherwise be on this facilities. 00:01:46.071 --> 00:01:49.050 We also put in things that slow traffic down, 00:01:49.050 --> 00:01:53.024 which includes the traffic circle that you can see over there 00:01:53.024 --> 00:01:56.057 and speed bumps along the street to slow traffic down 00:01:56.057 --> 00:02:01.047 so that the speed of cars is prety similar to the speed of cyclists 00:02:01.047 --> 00:02:04.046 which create a more confortable environment for everyone 00:02:04.046 --> 00:02:10.028 and then more recently we put in signs and circles to identify the street 00:02:10.028 --> 00:02:14.075 as well as other a Bike Boulevards, has been part of this special Boulevard Network. 00:02:21.059 --> 00:02:25.077 People are very concerned about diverting traffic off from a street. 00:02:25.077 --> 00:02:27.060 "How they gonna get to there houses?" 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:30.045 And that "it might cause traffic on other streets to go out". 00:02:30.045 --> 00:02:32.017 So, and this was what happened here, 00:02:32.017 --> 00:02:34.019 there was a lot of fights, it was a difficult project, 00:02:34.019 --> 00:02:38.058 and what happen as a result is also very similar to what hapens in many other cities, 00:02:38.058 --> 00:02:42.095 and that it's so pleasant afterwards that properties values stear? up? 00:02:42.095 --> 00:02:45.098 are becomes wonderfull terfair?? for people walking their dog and jogging 00:02:45.098 --> 00:02:47.036 it's "very" part of the street 00:02:47.036 --> 00:02:51.012 for bicycling, for people walking, for kids to be out of the bounds. 00:02:51.012 --> 00:02:54.038 and it's just become this wonderfull community street.