When mere paint won't do it: Bike 小道／航路s around the world
BOSTON (AP) ― Bike 小道／航路s are 発展させるing. Cities are ますます changing them to make them safer in light of 致命的な 衝突，墜落s 伴う／関わるing cyclists and cars.
From Boston to San Francisco and New York to Tokyo, 伝統的な bike 小道／航路s running と一緒に 乗り物 traffic are 存在 取って代わるd in 好意 of "保護するd" 小道／航路s or "cycletracks," where physical 障壁s like 固める／コンクリート 抑制（する）s, planters or 盗品故買者s separate cyclists from 乗り物 traffic.
"For 50 years, we've just been putting 負かす／撃墜する a （土地などの）細長い一片 of white paint, and that was how you 融通するd bikes on busy streets," says Martha Roskowski, director of People for Bikes, a 玉石, Colorado-based advocacy group that's calling for better designed bike 小道／航路s. "What we've learned is that 簡単に doesn't work for most."
In this Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, photo, a cyclist rides in a bike 小道／航路 between parked cars, left, and the sidewalk in Boston. Cities around the world are ますます changing bike 小道／航路s to make them safer in light of 致命的な 衝突，墜落s 伴う／関わるing cyclists and cars. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
A 要約 of how bike 小道／航路s are changing around the world:
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WHERE IT'S HAPPENING
保護するd 小道／航路s have been sprouting up in the U.S. since at least 2007, when New York started rolling them out on a wide 規模.
Today, there are 概略で 240 miles of 小道／航路s in 94 cities, によれば People for Bikes. That's an 増加する from about 100 miles of 小道／航路s in 32 cities in 2013, though still a tiny fraction of all bike 小道／航路s, Roskowski says.
This year alone, at least two dozen cities have so far 任命する／導入するd new types of 小道／航路s, the organization says.
In Chicago, 市長 Rahm Emanuel has 約束d to build 50 miles of the 小道／航路s over the next three years on 最高の，を越す of 9 miles this year.
And in greater Boston, where 最近の 致命的な cycle 事故s have 誘発するd calls for better 小道／航路s, a short stretch of Beacon Street 主要な to the Fenway Park area has been reconfigured.
列／漕ぐ／騒動s of parked cars now serve as a 衝撃を和らげるもの to cyclists, and there are 計画（する）s to 延長する that path and 会社にする／組み込む the design on other major arteries.
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NOT CREATED EQUAL
Designs for 保護するd 小道／航路s 変化させる by city, and not all have been 温かく received.
Along a short part of San Francisco's famous Market Street, pavement nearest the 抑制（する） was recently built up higher than 乗り物 小道／航路s to create a 際立った path for bikes.
But Chris Cassidy, of the San Francisco Bicycle 連合, says the city's first 実験（する） of a "raised" bike 小道／航路 still leaves something to be 願望（する）d because 乗り物s are still parking in the 小道／航路.
In Washington, D. C., the bike 小道／航路 along Pennsylvania Avenue between the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 and White House has 証明するd popular since it was 任命する／導入するd in 2010. But some cycling 支持するs 不平（をいう） its design ― 位置を示すd at the 中心 of the 幅の広い thoroughfare ― is impractical and 危険な.
Greg 法案ing, 長，率いる of the Washington Area Bicyclist 協会, says the 中心 小道／航路 design won't be repeated as the 小道／航路 is 延長するd past the White House. New rubber 障壁s were also 任命する／導入するd last year to discourage cars from making risky and 違法な U-turns through the bike 小道／航路.
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LOCAL OPPOSITION
の中で the most bitter bike 小道／航路 論争s is the 現在進行中の, five-year 合法的な 戦う／戦い 行うd by 豊富な and powerful 居住（者）s in Brooklyn, New York.
Construction of a parked-car-保護するd bike path along Prospect Park 要求するd 排除／予選 of one 乗り物 小道／航路 in 2010.
Norman Steisel, a former 副 市長, says he and other Park Slope 居住（者）s 簡単に 論争 the traffic and safety data on which the city based its final 決定／判定勝ち（する）. "You've got to be somewhat respectful for how you get these things done," he says.
In downtown Philadelphia, some two-小道／航路 roads are 予定するd to lose a 乗り物 travel 小道／航路 to 融通する new 保護するd bike 小道／航路s.
But Jonathan Broh, 大統領，／社長 of the city's Washington Square West 市民の 協会, says he worries that 蓄える／店s will have a harder time receiving 配達／演説／出産s and that school bus and taxi 好転s will snarl traffic.
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EUROPE MORE ADVANCED
保護するd bike 小道／航路s aren't a novel idea in Copenhagen, Denmark; Amsterdam; and other European cities where they've bee n around for １０年間s.
But even cities with いっそう少なく of a biking tradition are embracing the 小道／航路s.
London 顕著に opened a number of "cycle superhighways" meant to 結局 crisscross the city. Cyclists on these 大勝するs are separated from 乗り物 traffic at 決定的な segments by a 抑制（する）.
The city has also seen lofty 提案s for elevated bike 主要道路s spanning the Thames River or running above 鉄道 lines, 同様に as 地下組織の bike paths 利用するing old subway tunnels.
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ASIA AND BEYOND
Tokyo and other Japanese cities have long had a strong cycling culture, but some of their 保護するd 小道／航路s are placed 直接／まっすぐに on sidewalks.
That 現在のs challenges as cyclists and 歩行者s いつかs compete for the same space, says Mikael Colville-Andersen, CEO of Copenhagenize Design Co., a Danish 会社／堅い that 作品 with cities on bike 組織／基盤／下部構造 事業／計画（する）s.
Two of 中国's largest cities, Guangzhou and Shanghai, are also 投資するing ひどく in 保護するd 小道／航路s and other bike 組織／基盤／下部構造, 専門家s say, and India has made 進歩 in 改善するing its 小道／航路s.
In South America, the Argentinean 資本／首都 of Buenos 空気／公表するs has built nearly 90 miles of bike 小道／航路s, many of them 保護するd, in just three years.
"Cities are becoming more 合理的な／理性的な again, after the folly of car-centric planning," Colville-Andersen says.
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This story has been changed to 除去する an incorrect 言及／関連 to eight 最近の 致命的な cycle 事故s in Boston. There have been at least eight 最近の 歩行者 and cycle 関係のある 事故s in the greater Boston area.
In this Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, photo, a cyclist enters a bike 小道／航路 that is 大勝するd between parked cars and the sidewalk in Boston. Cities around the world are ますます changing bike 小道／航路s to make them safer in light of 致命的な 衝突，墜落s 伴う／関わるing cyclists and cars. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
