(Photos: Shannon Johnson/BikePortland)
Family Biking: Discovering ‘traffic gardens’ on the west side
(Photos: Shannon Johnson/BikePortland)
traffic garden
(Photos: Shannon Johnson/BikePortland)
‘Traffic gardens’ bloom in Portland
(Photo: PBOT)
Seattle’s new traffic garden is the perfect place to learn the rules of the road
(Photos: King County Parks)
If we ever want bicycling to become mainstream, we must find a way to educate more people on the right way to ride in traffic. It can be tough though, because our streets make most people so stressed out that they adopt bad habits just to stay alive.
That’s where a traffic garden can come in: A place that mimics real-life street conditions and that’s out of harms way. These facilities have been used in northern Europe for many years (we reported on one in Utrecht in 2009); but the United States hasn’t fully adopted the concept.
Until now.