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LightLane: The Bike Lane That Adapts To You

1 by Karen MacKay on March 2, 2011

LightLane is an inventive tool for making biking safer and more accessible.

Although LightLane has been around for a few years, it's new to me. I had the opportunity to see LightLane on exhibit at the Art Institute in Chicago this past weekend.

LightLane, awarded a Gold in the 2009 IDSA International Design Excellence Awards, is the invention of Alex Lee and Evan Gant of the Massachusetts based design firm Altitude. The impetus for LightLane was to create a safer riding environment to encourage biking as an alternative commuting method.

LightLane responds to the economic barriers of installing bike lanes on all roads by attaching the lane to the bike and the cyclist. This concept has an element of DIY, allowing cyclists to instantly create infrastructure for safe riding that would typically take months or years to achieve through policy or city planning.

LightLane utilizes Super-Bright red LED's and high visibility DPSS green lasers. A universal attachment bracket was designed for easy installation and the device can be charged with a standard mobile-phone charger.

Image source: LightLane

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Karen MacKay is an industrial designer and glass artist currently focusing her work on urban agriculture solutions and habits for urban wildlife. Karen’s interest in art began as early as her first memories. Throughout high school and college she explored various mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture and glass blowing. In 2002 Karen graduated from the University of North Carolina Asheville with a BA in Philosophy and recently graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Master of Industrial Design. Since an early age, Karen has maintained a passionate relationship with both art and nature. She loves to spend time in the outdoors, usually with her dog Abbey. As a designer, her expertise in sustainable design integrates her passion for all things natural and her insatiable desire to create. Karen has worked as a sustainability consultant to various design and architecture firms and is currently continuing to develop a vertical farming device for in-home use.

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