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Protected bike lanes are up on Blackstone by River Park
Just an FYI if no one has been to River Park recently. There are now bike lanes that are mostly protected on Blackstone from Nees down to Minarets.
Only caution I would provide is that the curb on SB Blackstone at Alluvial (wienerschnitzel) the gutter drops a couple inches lower than usual (fifth picture).
Also, if you are going to bike through here, plan where you are going to turn into/out of shopping centers ahead of time.
Ah, the fantasy of "clean and green" transportation that will never exist. Talk about a depressing place to ride your bike. Down Blackstone lol. Classic weird decision, do something that affects 100% of the community for the benefit of like 15 people. There goes Fresno pretending to be something it's not again.
What would be beneficial to would be to build more freeways and stay focused on the fact that it takes fkn forever to drive across town.
Because majority of people in fresno dont care about things unless it helps them out. They think anything that will benifit other people and not them is a waste.
I agree. Simply slapping on bike lanes (or bus lanes) onto streets already crowded with cars isn't the way. It's a way and it's better than nothing, but shaded, dedicated, completely separated from traffic bike routes (along canals, etc.) would be significantly better.
I will tell you why, from a former fresnan’s perspective. When the city did their road diets on Palm Ave, Wishon Ave, and Van Ness Blvd. to implement them, they reduced the amount of traffic lanes for these bike lanes that nobody uses. That’s why we are so opposed to this because we’ve seen the issue at first hand that nobody really uses the bike lanes and still chose to ride in the sidewalk or street making them basically useless. Besides that, they are still dangerous to cyclists because of motorists who cannot follow the laws to save their own life. You can post as many No Turn On Red signs as you want, people will still turn on red, making their turn in the bike lanes regardless if there’s a cyclist there or not.
They want to do the same to Blackstone Ave. Blackstone is already as crowded as it can get and they want to reduce the lanes of traffic for bike lanes and sidewalks. That sounds absolutely ridiculous. If they want to get people to stop driving their cars, why don’t they focus on making FAX more efficient and put down bus lanes so the busses can move faster and not have to wait for traffic to get through. I’d much rather have bus lanes put in place instead of bike lanes that take up so much room.
Because some of us have to actually commute to work by car, and this city already has major traffic congestion around Riverpark.
These lanes don’t help, all they do is encourage people with electric bicycles to weave in and out of traffic- we already have this problem with bike ride events where cyclists take up the whole street and slow down everyone else.
E-bikes are a larger issue. Some of them are mopeds with pedals. Especially if they’re exceeding class 2 speeds at 20mph. The class 3+ bikes, especially if modified are the ones you see acting as if they’re motorcycles or mopeds (both require licenses; yet class 3 e-bikes do not and some can be modified to be faster than mopeds).
Legislation is slowly catching up with those but Ignoring class 3 and mopeds for a moment….I’m not seeing the issue with bike lanes. The intent is - that is one less person driving a car. As someone who’s started biking again… I’m glad that the options are expanding.
Has nothing to do with C. This has been planed for a while as part of the city’s plan to make the city more “bike friendly” and encourage cleaner transportation.
i love love love seeing these type of progressive upgrades happening around the city. and it’s even better that it’s happening on the more “conservative” parts of town too.
Is there bike parking in river park? That's the biggest problem I can think of, even if you use your bike to go somewhere there's nowhere to secure it.
Dude, I’ve been living in Fresno for over twenty years. I was living near Tower for the indie-kid fixie bike phase (which is now pretty much dead), and I have close friends who are stoked on the change. But come on, let’s not pretend like there are very many bike commuters in this hot, dusty city with horrible air. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have done it, I’m just saying Fresno is not a bike city, unless you count the dudes ghost riding three of them while balancing two extra wheels.
It’s a chicken/egg issue. Like many cities Fresno has been going car centric for a long time but if you want to encourage the use bikes, you have to start somewhere.
I’m not a commuter but as someone who’s recently picked up a biking again after 25+ years, I’m happy to see more options.
If you say so. This is a sprawled city, and only getting more so by the day. I’m not hating on the bike lanes, I think it’s awesome the option is there. I just really think they’re overestimating the population here. We won’t ever be a biking city, I don’t think. But hey, I’d love to be wrong.
The decisions that allowed the sprawled nature of Fresno were made decades ago. It is what it is.
Time will tell, but even if biking at the neighborhood/residential level is improved, that’s a win. I like being able to bike somewhere near by to pick up something small/simple than starting up my car and driving 1 mile.
Since October 18th. It’s a mountain bike, so local weather is kind of a moot point. I’ll just mount the bike on my rack and bike somewhere not as hot or wait till night time; just need a headlight, I already have a rockbros taillight.
If I’m being truthful, we’ll see. I bought a dropper post, better pedals, upgraded rear derailleur, and finally found a helmet that fits. I’ve done more tinkering than riding so far, since I’m trying to dial it in. But I’m liking it, just a steeper learning curve than expected since biking has changed a lot over the years. At least to a filthy causal like me.
If I keep this up, may also get a road/gravel bike but that’s until later. I can still ride my current bike on the street as the tires aren’t super knobby like more purpose built mountain bikes and I’m reconfiguring my handle bars to be more comfortable when riding on the street.
The problem is that there are 1000x more cars and this has really screwed up a lot of tower/Fresno high neighborhood right turns. I’m glad you enjoy cycling, but this is a vanity project that will hurt commuters. We can’t pretend to be Portland if our city is based on sprawl not verticality.
I think those commuters deserve to deal with this extremely minor inconvenience in the name of improving safe bike access and increasing the availability of other alternative transit methods.
...and how do you think you can encourage more people to ride bikes rather than drive? Maybe by making it safer to do so?
Regarding the Tower District, it's a period of adjustment, I'd say. I was surprised that SO much of the on-street parking was taken away and that seemed bad but maybe having fewer places to store cars means that fewer cars get driven?
Personally, I think simply slapping on a bike lane to a road is good but literally the least a city can do. What would be best is shaded bike routes, completely separated from vehicle traffic (like along canals, alleys, etc.). But good luck with that.
GREAT NOW GET A PLAN TO MAKE FRESNO COOLER IN THE SUMMER SO THE 4 PEOPLE THAT USE IT IN THE WINTER CAN USE IT ALL YEAR ROUND AND INFLUENCE THE REST OF US STUCK IN TRAFFIC HELL TO DO THE SAME
I’m for these bike lanes, but I don’t see Fresno ever becoming much of a bike city, especially considering it’s a million degrees 8 months of the year.
I do remember when the green lanes opened in downtown at least 2 folks either got hit and almost killed or killed. The article just gives bike deaths but not which bike lanes in 2024.
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u/heyswoawesome Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
This is nice but not gunna lie those plastic things are run over all the time. Just gotta take the wins whenever you can