Look at what you can do with a street when you don't just default to lining it with car parking #Oslo 
And this is how major bus stops should look if your society truly values public transit. The sign says the bus route and arrival time.
This street intersects with the in pictured above. Still no on street car storage. How does this city still function!?
Every legit bike city in the world I've visited designates one-ways except bikes on the regular. Oslo is no different. You would never tell a pedestrian they can only walk in one direction. Pgh could make nearly every one way street in the city two ways for bikes overnight.
Here is a fairly aggressive parklet installation that takes up a quarter of the block on one side
On-street car storage allowed only on one side of the street so they have space to put in these bike lanes. I like the red more than the green cities in the US use, but 🤷♂️
A well worn, sidewalk level protected bike lane. This is the style that could work on Penn Ave in East Liberty (a sidewalk roughly twice the width of the one pictured). Again, where's the on-street car storage?
Just got my 24 hr transit pass and signed up for a 24 hr bike share pass as well. What the heck, I'll probably try a escooter while I'm here too. @PGHtransit @healthyridepgh
A beautiful way to prevent people from using the curb for private car storage
Here's a serious cargo bike making deliveries on the pedestrian street, Karl Johans gate
Who says you can't do speed tables/raised crosswalks on a traffic sewer type street with public transit and trucks?
It's just street after street with little to no on-street car parking. Also, let's start hanging street lights like they do in Scandinavia to eliminate the need for so many posts in the sidewalk
We could easily make car parking on side streets angled on one side which could alleviate car parking pressures on main streets we would like to put bike lanes on.
There are few streets I've found in Oslo with car parking on both sides. Just imagine the possibilities for bikes in Pittsburgh by consolidating car storage to a single side of the street
The lane width on this street is ~8.5-9'. Just wide enough for a Ford F-150 squeeze through
By the way, and this is important, they still allow delivery vehicles to service businesses during set timez on bike/walk streets. It seems to work fine.
These stair runnels are for both bikes AND strollers.
Here's a public works project where they are aggressively narrowing the lane and removing spaces for car storage.
It's insane to me that there's car parking in Market Square in Pittsburgh
This is how you do a climbing lane–wide and in a different color. This one happens to be contraflow.
Had a meeting with @SykkeliOslo this afternoon and they told me about this beautifully designed bikeway they recently constructed on Kirkeveien in Ullevål neighborhood so I got an Oslo City Bike and went to check it out.
Oslo is the @EU_GreenCapital 2019. One reason they were named is because they set a bold goal of 25% bike mode share by 2025. To do this they are implementing congestion pricing, eliminating on-street car parking & adding 25km bike lanes in '19 alone
Something else Oslo has done is integrate bike/walk paths with highways and arterials, weaving them under and through hwy ramps. Something @PennDOTNews should do as standard practice.
Looking down hill. Here's a robust speed hump, and a visible (dyed red) uphill climbing lane. This is the type of street we ought to be emulating in Pittsburgh. All told, Oslo has 300km of cycling infrastructure and growing
By the way, I'm a fan of showing road users of all types where they can expect a bus to pull over. Of course it looks like Oslo did a fair amount of stop consolidating so that these are not on every single block.
But not as big of a fan as I am of touting bike lanes around bus stops all together
All of these were taken on Markveien. The street features change depending where you are. Up the hill is a wide ~7' climbing lane w/parking on one side. In the business district all on-street car parking has been removed in favor of a doublewide sidewalk, bike lane & 1 car lane
None of this is rocket science. It is political. It comes down to 1. Vision (+ a plan) 2. Compelling narrative why (affordability, health, air quality, climate crisis, quality of life) 3. Political will 4. Action plan 5. Some $ but that's related to #3 @walk_left @billpeduto
There are endless possibilities to redesign our streets in Pittsburgh
Here's a public works project where the City of Oslo is widening sidewalks and narrowing travel lanes and carving out only a few nooks for car parking.
I'm leaving Oslo today for Helsinki. One parting thought is that we should consider using modular curbs instead of pouring curbs with concrete. This would make changing the configuration of a street at least a bit simpler.
Pittsburgh needs to be bolder. We need car free shopping streets like Walnut & Penn in the Strip. Few main streets should have 2-side parking. Street segments should be closed to cars, like Grant @ City-County. The lot across from it should be made into a park. Oslo City Hall:
I asked my concierge re:the express train to the airport. She opened her app & said "I've never seen this. Something's wrong at the closest station. Go to Central" (~1mi away opposed to 1/8mi). An escooter was outside. I hopped on & floored it. Got to the train w/5 min to spare
Here is what is achievable through great transportation policy and street design that puts people first not cars usa.streetsblog.org/2020/01/03/vis…
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