Save Glenmore Ave. Bike Lanes

Save these bike lanes! Traffic in BR is atrocious, health benefits of biking are tremendous, and there are so few safe places in BR to get around by bike.

Embarrassing for the city, that this petition even has to exist...

I live in the area (an adjacent neighborhood) and use the bike lanes often for both biking and running.

Please save the Glenmore bike lanes!

The quality of neighborhood needs to be maintained.

There are many streets in Baton Rouge where residents cannot park on the street. Westdale, Claycut, Broussard, Capital Heights. Also, this very neighborhood ( I know because I live in it) hosted a wine walk in conjuction with CPEX a few months ago to get bike lanes on Country Club and Broussard. I know for there are people who live on Glenmore that attended the event.

Baton Rouge should stay on a forward trajectory with respect to biking. Perhaps a solution that keeps the bike lane will serve as a model for other streets in BR but we do not need to reinvent the wheel here. Examples of bike paths in residential streets abound in other cities like Austin, Portland, Boulder, etc.

Please stop Baton Rouge from regressing to an even less bike friendly city. If you want to attract businesses and visitors, you have to make this a pleasant place to live and play.

Let's not lose the important progress that we have made in the city towards safer streets for our bicyclists, children, and pedestrians -- frankly for all of our citizens.

Save the Bike Lanes!!!!

Many of you are correct. This needs to be handled delicately. Here's how: To the cry-baby that took it upon himself to skirt the law, move the freaking bike and stop the BS. To the rest of y'all, you were all for the lanes when it was good for you. Not until YEARS later, when you found there was one small drawback did you decide to take issue with this. You got your speed humps, your extra stop signs and recently lowered speed limits on a tax-payer funded street. Realize that you can park in your grass and the end of the world will not come. If this comes as a hard truth to you and yours, please feel free to have your wife / girlfriend put on her favorite tennis outfit that never sees a moment on the court and take her to brunch to "let off some steam" as you wild kids say. By the way, it took tons of testicles to opine anonymously. Good for you!

This is not just a Glenmore issue. Failure to support these bicycle lanes will help to imperil existing lanes elsewhere in the city as well as impede the adoption of new lanes. For for far too long, cars in Baton Rouge have taken premier status in civil planning to the detriment of sidewalks, bicycle lanes, pedestrian overpasses on arterial streets and pedestrian controls at intersections. There is very little respect demonstrated by the car culture here. Observe almost any intersection and see how many cars blow the stop line and stop in the middle of the crosswalk. See almost no one yield to pedestrians. See the wholesale violation of bicycle lanes during any garage sale. Every bicycle lane in the city has cars parked in it on a regular basis. Perhaps this is all asking too much; car drivers don't even show much respect for each other. Two examples of "car think disconnect" I've seen associated with the Glenmore debate are the ticketing and speeding issues: The sign does not say "no parking except for homeowner or visitors"! Why are you surprised to get a ticket for being in a "no parking any time" zone? AND What possible train of logic would give anyone the idea that the purpose of a bicycle lane is to help slow down cars; that's what the speed limit signs are for. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that think this is not a real issue because they don't actually see that many bicycles on the roadway. The reason you don't see more bicycles on the road is that only a daring few venture out. It is simply not safe enough in Baton Rouge to attract substantial ridership. This is the tourism message we generate for the rest of the world with this issue; "Baton Rouge, the city that doesn't care about the safety of it's citizens". By 2050, the population of the U.S. is expected to grow to 438 million people. That is an increase of 135 million people (approximately 25 percent). There simply will not be r

KEEP the BIKE LANES! We need more.

We need far *more* bike lanes and safe pedestrian walkways, not less. Furthermore, the people who own the houses on Glenmore do not also own the streets -- they belong to all of BR's citizens.

Sorely needed. Support walkers, cyclists, runners. We don't emit fossil fuels! Keep bike lanes and we need more.

Bike lanes really add to the value and diversity of living in Baton Rouge. I wish we had more bike lanes for bikers as they add to their safety.

Resist the private usurping of the public commons. But please be civil about it.

Unless that is a privately owned road, the homeowners have no control over the road. Guests should park in the grass, not the bike lane. Sarah Dupree can not invite or uninvite anyone from using a public road.

As a home owner and tax payer in Baton Rouge, I support walkable, bikable communities. Maybe these Glenmore residents should try getting out of their cars and enjoying their own neighborhood the way others have; they might make friends instead of enemies.

I'm a Baton Rouge bicyclist