Category: Engineering
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White Horse Road StreetLight Data
Bike Walk Greenville has recently used our StreetLight Data (SLD) license to learn more about pedestrian and bicycle use in the vicinity of the White Horse Road Walmart Supercenter. In 2021 Bike Walk Greenville advocates started looking at White Horse Road after reading Right of Way by Angie Schmitt and the Smart Growth America’s Dangerous…
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An update from SCDOT
We reached out to Brandon E. Wilson, SCDOT District 3 Traffic Engineer for an update on the long awaited traffic signal at the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail interesction with West Blue Ridge Drive (SC-253) who provided this information on December 13, 2022: New Technology The goal of the radar technology being deployed at the…
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20 is plenty resolution for the City of Greenville
On July 13, 2020 Greenville City Council heard a staff presentation about the status of the traffic calming program and Council members had much to say. Council members said they hear about fast moving motor vehicles on neighborhood streets more than any other issue. Staff emphasized the program to add speed humps, planted medians and…
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Jeff Speck towards more walkable communities
Two of us from Bike Walk Greenville enjoyed hearing Jeff Speck speak in Spartanburg on November 7, 2019. We are very familiar with his work which includes his newest book Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places Speck’s one hour presentation in Spartanburg was…
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Is this safe biking infrastructure for those 8 to 80?
“Simpsonville Swamp Rabbit Trail” is a public Facebook Group that was created five years ago to “talk about, create energy and ideas and partner with people that would like to see the Swamp Rabbit Trail come to Simpsonville.” On November 2, 2019 the below news was posted. We also shared this to the Bike Walk…
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How the private sector is making bicycling and walking safer in Greenville
In August 2016 it was announced at a Greenville City Council meeting that there would be a major investment in Verdae Boulevard that would include a new 10 ft wide bicycle and pedestrian path. The total cost of the project is $4.1 million. The City of Greenville will spend $2.7 million SCDOT will contribute $700,000…
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South Carolina’s first protected bike lane is now fully implemented
We thought it important to tell a little history of how we got to this point: This project started with a meeting in July 20115 with former City of Greenville Parks and Recreation Director Dana Souza and advocates from Bike Walk Greenville, where Mr Souza agreed that the city’s bicycle program needed more attention. This…
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Jeff Speck: Towards a More Walkable and Bikeable Greenville
World renowned urban planner Jeff Speck spoke to a receptive crowd at the Clemson One Auditorium on 12 April. This event was organized by AIA Greenville, and Bike Walk Greenville was pleased to be one of the sponsors. He followed with a small session for city staff and sponsors at City Hall on 13…
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Lower Speed Limits Save Lives
Seven years ago I was riding my bike and was hit by a car. While I was recovering in the hospital, I learned that “When you get hit by a car traveling at 20 mph you live… but if you get hit by a car traveling at 40 mph you die.“ The recent deaths of…
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Save lives by designing for people not just for cars
It seems like we get a news alert on our phones every week about another pedestrian being struck by a vehicle in the upstate. Many times these reports are for pedestrians trying to cross one of our major 4 or 5 lane roads well after dark. And while this is anecdotal, according to Dangerous by…
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