To help usher in National Bike Month, the good folks over at Act!vate Omaha have published Marty Schukert's bicycle commuter map. It's really cool as it breaks down safe routes throughout the Metro area.
Check out the details here.
Access a PDF of the map here.
Don't forget, Friday is National Bike to Work Day. Pack up work clothes and take them in tomorrow, ride your bike on Friday!
6 comments:
Excellent map. It might be nice to include biker-friendly establishments where you can refill a water bottle or lounge after a hard ride with friends.
Regardless, the map should be a vector PDF. That would take the file size right down, yet provide unlimited resolution.
Kudos Marty!
Good beta verion!
I find some of the colors counter intuitive and some types of surface can be combined under one color to simplify the map. I will email suggestions to them. But I thought I would run my suggestions here for comments.
I think the following color scheme progresses intuitively from safest to most dangerous:
Blue for Multiuse Trails and Sidepaths (these have similar safety levels and don't need distinction, imo)
Green for Continuous Streets and Bike Lanes (similar safety levels)
Yellow for Cautionary Streets and Paved Shoulders
Dotted Red for Survivable Arteries (only to be used when traffic is light)
Red for Non Cycling Streets/Roads
Maybe Dotted Red should be Orange since they use dotted for future plans.
put a skull and crossbones on west dodge road.
ride your bike to work every day you lazy's
Non limited access W Dodge I would make Orange. For the corporate challenge(Sunday morning), I've ridden it from 71st all the way to 10th with no problem.
If traffic is light, it's commutable.
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