Google adds bike lane with latest mapping feature
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Posted By Mary Luke - Thu, Mar 11 2010 at 12:25 PM ESTagreed
I was just reading of an electric bike that is a regular bike when riding along....but the "motor" comes on when you hit a particularly bad hill....so it's not a fitness bike but a commuting/shopping bike for those of us who use our bike as our car, so to speak.
and putting bikes on an equal mapping level with cars is a great next step.
Posted By md52 - Thu, Mar 11 2010 at 10:11 AM ESTlove it
So now I can see if a route is truly bikeable or not...for a poor map reader like me, a dream come true.
Posted By Phil Signet - Wed, Mar 10 2010 at 2:55 PM ESTthe coolest part about this....
...is that the easier the bike commute, the more likely people are to use bikes, and then the more likely for their towns to support it with lanes. Take cars....everybody drives them because everything is built around highways. In NYC, everyone takes the subway because their routes go everywhere. This will hopefully build demand.
Yes! Bikes will rule the world!
This is wonderful!!! Couple that with this announcement about DC adding a bunch of bike lanes this spring, including on Pennsylvania Avenue, and I am just ecstatic!! Critical mass of bikes must have arrived!!!
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