New, Albeit Brief, Bike Lane Cuts Through The East Side

What's this running in front of the newly completed Glenview House on the East Side? Could it be a bike lane?! Was that so hard Stamford? Can we all agree that a dedicated lane such as this is safer than leaving cyclists to fight cars on open road or dodge pedestrians on the sidewalks? From the angle in the pic on the right you can see the bike lane is even used to coral traffic lanes into a more modest, uniform width. It's a simple trick to slow speeding. Paint is much cheaper than speed traps.

Design New Haven reports that the city of (you guessed it) New Haven is developing "Complete Streets" legislation that strives to remake city streets safer and more inviting for pedestrians and cyclists.

Combine that with the type of "New Urban" development Glenview House & it's brother down the block, The Eastside Commons represent with mixed residential and commercial uses, improved streetscapes, and shallow setbacks and you end up with walkable, human scale communities that could serve as a model of neighborhood center development throughout the city.

Its funny how a Walgreen's is set to fill the ground floor retail space in Glenview House. It really sets up the project as the antithesis of the CVS project planned in Bull's Head, a one story retail building sitting in what amounts to a traffic median at the intersection of 6 roads where a hillside was blasted away to carve out an acre to pave over as a parking lot.