Google maps bicycle directions

[TheTed]

Google maps now has directions by bicycle. It's in beta and there are lots of kinks to work out. The smaller bike trails show up, but not the main riverparks trails. I've reported that.

Don't we have a couple of bike lanes around town? I don't see any noted on Tulsa's map when I pull up bike directions.

Everyone make sure and report problems and give google information to make sure our bicycle maps are complete.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-time-to-bike.html

[SXSW]

I know 36th is marked with bike lanes from Riverside to Harvard, possibly beyond.  3rd is a designated bike route but I'm not sure there are marked lanes, if not there should be.  I'd like to see 13th be a designated route with or without marked lanes and in doing so install a 'bike only' rail crossing just east of Lewis where 13th is interrupted by the tracks.  13th is one of the few non-arterial streets in midtown to cut straight across the city from Boston downtown all the way to near Memorial.  Add the crossing at the tracks and a bike trail extension at Memorial and it could connect downtown to the Mingo Valley trail system..

[Conan71]

I know 36th is marked with bike lanes from Riverside to Harvard, possibly beyond.  3rd is a designated bike route but I'm not sure there are marked lanes, if not there should be.  I'd like to see 13th be a designated route with or without marked lanes and in doing so install a 'bike only' rail crossing just east of Lewis where 13th is interrupted by the tracks.  13th is one of the few non-arterial streets in midtown to cut straight across the city from Boston downtown all the way to near Memorial.  Add the crossing at the tracks and a bike trail extension at Memorial and it could connect downtown to the Mingo Valley trail system..

Unless I've just become oblivious, when I was biking up and down 36th a couple of weeks ago, there aren't any marked lanes.  Just signage on the pavement and stand up signs designating 36th as a bike route.

[godboko71]

Delaware near TU is the only street I know of with marked bike lanes.

[TURobY]

I know 36th is marked with bike lanes from Riverside to Harvard, possibly beyond.  3rd is a designated bike route but I'm not sure there are marked lanes, if not there should be.  I'd like to see 13th be a designated route with or without marked lanes and in doing so install a 'bike only' rail crossing just east of Lewis where 13th is interrupted by the tracks.  13th is one of the few non-arterial streets in midtown to cut straight across the city from Boston downtown all the way to near Memorial.  Add the crossing at the tracks and a bike trail extension at Memorial and it could connect downtown to the Mingo Valley trail system..

I'd be cool with that (as I live just off of 13th and frequently take it or 6th to get downtown)

[Conan71]

I'd be cool with that (as I live just off of 13th and frequently take it or 6th to get downtown)

Ouch! 6th is rough as a cob.

[SXSW]

Unless I've just become oblivious, when I was biking up and down 36th a couple of weeks ago, there aren't any marked lanes.  Just signage on the pavement and stand up signs designating 36th as a bike route.

Maybe I'm the oblivious one, thought there were lines on the shoulders.  There is definitely ample room for them.  I know the connection across Riverside to the river trail could be improved.

[buckeye]

Do the instructions include "Ignore stop sign" and "Self-righteously shake fist at oppressive automobiles"?

Just kidding.

Mostly.

[Townsend]

Maybe I'm the oblivious one, thought there were lines on the shoulders.  There is definitely ample room for them.  I know the connection across Riverside to the river trail could be improved.

There used to be but they were never replaced after the repaving last year.

[RecycleMichael]

I like the simple bicyclist graphic they paint on the road to designate it as a bike way.

I just think the graphic needs something else...maybe hats.

I want to organize a bikeway graffiti campaign to give them all funny hats.

[Conan71]

I like the simple bicyclist graphic they paint on the road to designate it as a bike way.

I just think the graphic needs something else...maybe hats.

I want to organize a bikeway graffiti campaign to give them all funny hats.

Shhhh, Paul Tay will pick this up as a personal project.

[Ed W]

Tulsa has poorly designed, poorly maintained bike lanes along Archer and Mohawk, as well as defacto bike lanes along Avery Drive.  Avery, however, is only a shoulder, not a bike lane.  For that matter, 46th Street North near Mohawk Park has a seemingly inviting shoulder if you're driving by in a car, but the surface is so weathered and littered with debris that it's unrideable.  Given the conditions of these existing 'facilities' I'd hesitate before wanting more of them.

Supposedly, the new bike/ped coordinator at INCOG wants to reconstitute the bicycling subcommittee, but it really seems that it's not a priority.  Cyclists are the red-headed step children when it comes to transportation planning.

Oh, I forgot.  Old North Road was supposed to get a bike lane on the uphill sections, but the county planner (unfortunately, I've forgotten his name) went with wider lanes instead.  The old ones were 12 feet most places.  The new ones are supposed to be 14-15 feet, but I haven't been out there to look.  Wide lanes benefit everyone who uses the road, not just cyclists.  Given the winding nature of Old North Road and its topography, there was concern that debris would collect in bike lanes - a concern that is patently obvious when you see the condition of area shoulders and those atrocious bike lanes on Mohawk and Archer.

[Conan71]

Tulsa has poorly designed, poorly maintained bike lanes along Archer and Mohawk, as well as defacto bike lanes along Avery Drive.  Avery, however, is only a shoulder, not a bike lane.  For that matter, 46th Street North near Mohawk Park has a seemingly inviting shoulder if you're driving by in a car, but the surface is so weathered and littered with debris that it's unrideable.  Given the conditions of these existing 'facilities' I'd hesitate before wanting more of them.

Supposedly, the new bike/ped coordinator at INCOG wants to reconstitute the bicycling subcommittee, but it really seems that it's not a priority.  Cyclists are the red-headed step children when it comes to transportation planning.

Oh, I forgot.  Old North Road was supposed to get a bike lane on the uphill sections, but the county planner (unfortunately, I've forgotten his name) went with wider lanes instead.  The old ones were 12 feet most places.  The new ones are supposed to be 14-15 feet, but I haven't been out there to look.  Wide lanes benefit everyone who uses the road, not just cyclists.  Given the winding nature of Old North Road and its topography, there was concern that debris would collect in bike lanes - a concern that is patently obvious when you see the condition of area shoulders and those atrocious bike lanes on Mohawk and Archer.

Ed, we were out on old north about a week after the re-pave on the hills near the sub-division, I didn't happen to notice that they widened it, just a nice new cap of asphalt.  They had not striped it yet.  I guess I'll find out what the finished product looks like next Weds unless it rains.

[Mike 01Hawk]

I think it's groovy as hell that  I can bike from NSU Broken Arrow all the way to River City Park in Sand Springs.  A distance of over 30 miles one way.

Sigh.. I miss that summer of all day bike rides... kiddo on the scene now.

[Conan71]

NSU Broken Arrow is a great destination, however Memorial to Mingo on the south side of the Creek Turnpike is cut off for construction.  Someone forwarded me an email the other day that it might be as long as 8 months.  I figured out the route through the neighborhood night before last, if anyone needs a tip on how to get around it.