My protected bike lane drawing from 2007

By On June 17, 2011 · 14 Comments

I was looking through my most popular bits on Flickr and came across this drawing I made in January 2007.

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Notice how I put a bike rack in the street. Portland starting on-street bike parking corrals in 2002, I believe.

It looks surprisingly like the Kinzie Street bike lane ;)

I cannot remember from where I got the inspiration to draw this. I hadn’t yet traveled to New York City or Portland; I probably saw a drawing of this on Streetsblog for a facility that would soon be built in New York City (9th Avenue cycle track popped up later in 2008).

I don’t remember my obsession with bicycle planning beginning that early.

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  • http://twitter.com/JoshuaKoonce Josh K

    Awesome illustration.  Certainly something to be said for the feel of a good freehand illustration. 

    • http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

      I believe it’s a lot faster to draw freehand than to try it out on the computer. I then scan these at a high resolution, increase the contrast so pencil lines appear darker, remove stray pencil marks, and then use the paint bucket tool to drop in some color. 

      See more drawings here:
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbondsv/sets/72157613242465282/with/109977282/

  • Anonymous

    Steven,
    I remember using bike boxes in Groningen, Netherlands in ’92-’93 when I studied there.  Groningen for the longest time was the only city that I knew that had bike boxes.  Maybe you saw pictures from there?

    • http://www.stevevance.net/planning Steven Vance

      I can’t recall, but it’s possible!

      I missed Groningen on my short trip to the Netherlands in January 2011. 
      I want to return and visit Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen, Den Haag, and others!

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