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See The Dramatic Street Changes Happening in Hoboken & Jersey City
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2022
- At Transportation Alternatives' Vision Zero Cites Conference in October, some session attendees opted to see some of the transformative progress going on just over the Hudson River in the cities of Hoboken & Jersey City.
The bike tour drew am overflow crowd and what they got to see were ample treatments & policies in both cities - a few of which you will see here.
In Hoboken, now into its 5th year of no traffic deaths of any kind (pedestrian, bike or motorist), conference riders got to see the significantly safe streets - much of which is attributable to the process of daylighting, not allowing car parking at the intersections of streets to make people more visible.
New Jersey State Law prohibits parking within 25 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.
In Jersey City (which Streetfilms has paid many visits to) they have continued to roll out protected bike lanes continued at a great pace since 2019 using various types of protection for riders. That not only includes armadillos and jersey barriers but in some instances concrete barrels. Both cities are also using a type of green paint product called endurablend which provides cyclists with more friction and lasts longer than traditional paint.
Please enjoy the filmed tour which comes with Streetfilms exclusive, dramatic BEFORE footage showing how much the streets have changed in spots.
It's great to see Jersey doing things that are more modern and intelligent than other places in our country. Progress helps us all.
Thanks!
Amazing what can be done with competent politicians and city staff!!
I salute Hoboken and Jersey City for the wonderful progress they've made. May their efforts inspire the nation.
Fabulous to see Hoboken's progress toward eliminating its safety risks. Congratulations.
"First protected bike lane the city implemented in 2019." Ouch. Words can hurt, this is an example. But it's good to see that they are trying hard to catch up.
Those new streets look so much more inviting than the old ones. It's cool to see New Jersey at the forefront of traffic innovations in America. I definitely want to visit someday.
Riding a bicycle puts a smile on your face.
Wow, what progress with more coming! So nice to see a city making itself more livable for so many more residents and visitors.
Protected intersections are one of those things that I really want to see more of. I hope the ones here can be properly installed with pavement instead of just paint. Another thing that I didn't see in this video that we need to build is continuous sidewalks, where instead of having ADA curb cuts that force wheelchair users down into the gutter, there is a continuous platform from corner to corner along the crosswalk, with ramps for the car to go up instead of pedestrians and cyclists. Speed tables 20 or so feet before some crossings, like mid-block, would encourage cars to stop. This is nice to see.
They didn’t show them, but jersey city has been installing continues sidewalks. They installed them on Newark Ave and they installed them around journal square.
I heard that Hoboken hasn’t had a pedestrian death in 5 years. I went to go check it out (I’m from Philly). I drove in, not surprisingly driving through is hard. But when i parked and rode my bike, I really got to explore the city as it should be. All the protected bike lanes and safe pedestrian crossing are really beautiful to see. GREAT JOB
Love this! Hoboken is beautiful without cars!
Everytime I go to Hoboken and walk around I love it. Biking too, but walking is so pleasant. (And quiet!)
Incredible infrastructure development! We need more of this across the country.
Agreed
They should have had some Dutch city designers over to get some tips. Hoboken and Jersey City do their best, but there is a lot if improvement possible
True
go hoboken! super nice place to walk and bike
Beautiful to see! I haven't been to Hoboken in years and I am so glad to see that they are trying to make it better and safer. I think the most refreshing thing is the willingness to try something out temporarily.
My city in New Hampshire doesn't do pilot programs; everything gets stuck in endless planning and review so when something finally does get updated it usually is with a plan from 15-20 years ago. Pilot programs to test out new ideas prevent municipal stagnation.
Startup mentality is good for progress...
Keep up the good works Hoboken !! Making your town so much more livable.
Greetings from a biking Netherlander
Way to go Jersey! My question is: When it snows, are the bike lanes going to be cleared of snow? If that becomes a priority you will see more bike traffic. And Yes, you can ride all year round. In Boulder, Colorado, we ride all year round! The bike paths here during the winter are cleared better than the roads.
We have little plows for the smaller walkways etc. We're heavily pedestrian so that is a priority. Snow is pretty aggressively cleared for all types of transport.
I hope they don't salt the bike lanes.
See? Incremental change IS possible. Do not despair, and vote for people who want to build like this.
I'm glad they are making it more friendly to bicyclist and pedestrians, and hopefully coax Rep. Amy Degise to actually stop for once when runs over someone.
Watching from a bicycling country--the Netherlands (!), I applaud you all for your extraordinary efforts and brilliant results. Bravo!
Keep up the great work and Streetfilms keep chronicling the breakthroughs. This is good stuff.
I just rode over the new Marin Blvd bike lanes today and they're great (except for the sewer covers). I laughed in joy. I fell off my bike there earlier in the year because of a pothole and it's great to see things improving for cyclists here!
Great to hear. Keep pushing forward for more change!
I'm very jealous you have politicians who actually make your town better. Great stuff!
Impressive progress here. I would love to see such efforts in my city.
Yes! More of this please!
Why do American cities not have continuous sidewalks? There were so many opportunities for them on those streets!
I am more concerned about he broken bike path painting on intersections. Mabye it's because I am not used to it, but for me it does not tell car drivers to respct bikes.
@@steemlenn8797 Yup. Putting flex posts up says the same thing, but at least it seems that new jersey respects cyclists enough to harden things over time.
Also, I really wish the US would stop using that awful green color for bike lanes. The red that they use in Europe is so much more pleasant to look at.
@@jamalgibson8139 we already use red for bus lanes a lot in the U.S (ex: NYC) so…. maybe orange?
@@peskypigeonx Bus lanes don't really need to be painted, but you're right that it would be confusing I suppose. Either way, that green paint looks ugly as hell imo.
Continuous sidewalks are used on a street where a minor road intersects a major road. Most of the intersections in this video show minor roads intersecting minor roads, which means they will be given equal treatment.
Looks awesome. Well done. Enjoy your new freedom. I'm jealous...
Very good progress!
Amazing. Great to see
Some great work!
1) Do the curb extensions pinch people on bikes or is it not an issue as they're only on streets with slow design speeds?
2) Snow clearance?
3) Residential bike parking standards?
4) Is minimum age for using bike share 15 like in NYC?
The curb extensions only block parking up to the corner. So the street was already pinched by parked cars. But the curb extensions are only six inches high and offer much more visibility on the crossing instead of six feet high SUV's.
City wide speed limit is 20 mph.
So embarrassing to know Jersey has us in Houston beat /s 😭
This is actual thought out good infra design! Looks good!
Way to go 👍
Love it!!!!!
Send a link to your local transportation planner or elected officials.
Encourage them to support protected bike lanes and trails in your community.
This is so good! I really want to make my city like this too, but I think it's kind of hard
As someone who doesn't own a vehicle and travels primarily by escooter and to a much lesser degree public transportation, the idea is great. However the bike lanes have a lot of disfunction. Many bikers and scooter riders continue to ride on the sidewalk. The excuse i always get when I bring this up is that "the bike lanes aren't protected its not safe." As said in the video, joggers, walkers, and baby strollers use the bike lanes all the time. A month and a half ago I struck a pedestrian and was thrown into a truck which also hit me because the pedestrian walked into the bike lane looking in the opposite way of traffic, from behind a box truck. I was 5 feet away, all I could do was lean to the left to miss the BABY he was carrying. I now have a herniated disk. This is not uncommon.
This is really great :) I hope NYC can take some of these ideas and implement them in the city.
Love it!!!
good for Hoboken and Jersey City. It will makes your cities and neighborhoods more pleasant for their citizens.
Very good. From thailand.
This is how you make America great
Look at all those cyclists who would otherwise be in cars jamming the roads up. So heartening to see sensible policy winning.
Congratulations!
This is awesome. Keep it going, hope more of this comes to where I live
The protection on a lot of these bikelanes is even better than what you get most places in Copenhagen and the rest of Denmark, very nice job
Is it possible to put subtitles in the video please? It difficult to for me to understand everything. Feel I’m missing information.
The auto captions should be working. They are this morning.
@@StreetfilmsCommunity yes, thank you, really appreciate it. I’m always interested in how infrastructure is developing in the USA. It make me happy to see the good life spread. Love from the Netherlands
At 5:20 what has the green bikepath to do with the "concerns of the local film and television industry"??
Whell done Hoboken. Follow the Dutch system.
Hi! Could you enable closed captions for this video please? Thanks!
For some reason two people commented that cc weren't enabled. But I see them this morning. Maybe TH-cam had a glitch last night?
I lived on the corner of 9th and Marin for a brief stint of my childhood back in the late 80’s- right around the time Newport Mall was opened. I am really glad to see the changes but I wonder if those who endured “the darker times” are actually around to benefit from this? I remember seeing posters around the mall that said these kinds of streetscapes were literally and figuratively just around the corner then, but it took 35 years 😅
Green is nice 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲🍀🚲😊👍 And blue and yellow, of course 💙💛🌻
go Hoboken!
That is so good, but why the city dont make underground containers in the city's for garbage, so there will be no garbage day's. and the streets stay's clean, but it is such an improvement, greetings from the Netherlands.
This looks amazing! I've been begging for something to be done on County Rd (connecting Rt 1&9 and Secaucus). My kids and I ride our bikes to the park in Secaucus and the pedestrian access is unacceptable. I also use that road to get to Secaucus Junction. Please please please someone help us.
Clarence how many NYC government officials were there?
this was a bike ride for attendees of the Vision Zero Conf. I didn't see any I know but I cannot be sure, only the people who put the conference together would know.
this is a great template; I hope to see a lot of copycats across this country
Has Amy from JC govt. who hit a bicyclist and ran been charged yet? Must be nice to be able to get away with [attempted] murder. Washington St. should have been closed to cars permanently. Big mistake. Look at the studies from European cities that did this to their main streets or in many cases most of their city center. It was a 100% success from reducing pollution to increasing healthy living and retail sales increased dramatically for the stores in those areas.
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Haha Jersey barrier
Whoever came up with that endurablend surface finish crap deserves their own circle in hell. It's a pain in the ass (literally) to ride a bike on it, not to mention a scooter with hard wheels. 5:10.
And I’m guessing it can’t be recycled like asphalt or repurposed like concrete rubble.
Imagine living in a place you can call "hobo"...:D
Some of those people can't help but constantly compare themselves to new york lmao
This is so stupid. Do you understand how much trouble this causes commuters?
you do realize that commuters in hoboken take the PATH train right lmao
Bikers are commuters as well.
Do you understand how much trouble car commuters cause the rest of us?
Now it's overcrowded with cars and bikes a lose lose for all sane thinking people.