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POR 2017 #13 · Agenda item attachment · Jan 23 2017
That the City Manager is requested to confer with relevant City staff including appropriate staff from Boston and Somerville and report back to the Council with an explanation of how the success of these “pop up” lanes will be measured and what lessens we expect to learn from them to help implement safer bicycling facilities throughout the City as soon as possible
City of Cambridge
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ORIGINAL ORDER
IN CITY COUNCIL
January 23, 2017
COUNCILLOR KELLEY
WHEREAS:
Cambridge has instituted two trial “pop up” bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue to
determine if and how such protected lanes could be replicated in other parts of the City
to help make cycling as safe as possible in Cambridge; and
WHEREAS:
Safe bicycling is an crucial component of urban mobility; and
WHEREAS:
There is hope that the City will expand its bike safety infrastructure in the immediate
future, perhaps as soon as Spring, 2017, based on the experience gained, at least partly,
through these “pop up” lanes; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with relevant City staff and
report back to the Council with an explanation of how the success of these “pop up”
lanes will be measured and what lessens we expect to learn from them to help
implement safer bicycling facilities throughout the City as soon as possible.