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What’s Good for Trek is Good for the Country?
There is a long history of “Astroturf” self-promotion campaigns by industry masquerading as grassroots popular movements. In the title of this post, I paraphrase a line you may recall. Actually, what the president of General Motors said wasn’t quite “what’s … Continue reading
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They come out of the woodwork
The summer heat has abated and the weather has been nice lately. As I returned from a bike club ride on the Labor Day Monday holiday, the Minuteman Rail Trail was in heavy use. I rode slowly and cautiously, among … Continue reading
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Managing frontage-road conflicts
Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco was reconstructed with frontage roads in 2003, as described here. Construction of such boulevards has been very rare in the USA since the 1920s. The intent with Octavia Boulevard was to reclaim a neighborhood which … Continue reading
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Bicycle touring and the unexpected
Bicycle touring is a great way to break out of daily routine, and beyond that, into the unexpected. That’s one reason I like it. My son Jacob, age 19, and I took on a little 2-day bicycle tour Thursday and … Continue reading
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Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC: Incredible Shrinking Bike Lanes
Slam dunk indeed. It turned out that bicyclists were slammed, and dunked.
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Tagged bicycle, bike lane, bike path, bikeway, crash, crosswalk, cycle track, cycle tracks, DC, District of Columbia, League of American Bicyclists, motor vehicle, pedestrian, safety, traffic, traffic calming, traffic signal, vehicle, Washington
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Travel time and lifetime
Though they are not first to do this, Dutch researchers have calculated the effects of different travel mode choices on life expectancy. The study is called Do the Health Benefits of Cycling Outweigh the Risks? The researchers based their calculations … Continue reading
Double Crossover Diamond Interchange
A document from the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center of the US Federal Highway Administration describes a new concept in freeway interchanges, the Double Crossover Diamond Interchange. The novelty here is that the overpass operates with traffic on the left, in … Continue reading
Recycling bicycle inner tubes, net benefit?
A correspondent on the Charles River Wheelmen bicycle club e-mail list reports that a company called Liberty Tire has started a program to recycle bicycle inner tubes. This is reported in the Journal Waste and Recycling News, but “[i]t doesn’t … Continue reading
Massachusetts and the FHWA experimental process
A procedure exists through the Federal Highway Administration to encourage experimentation in transportation projects. This procedure defines new, nonstandard treatments as experimental, and requires that research data be collected, so that non-standard designs may serve to direct the standards-setting process, … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, experiment, experimental, FHWA, law, marking, Massachusetts, ordinance, sign, signal, traffic signal
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It isn’t about weight
“Your 25-pound bicycle is no match for a 10,000 pound truck.” You’ve probably heard that before. So, if you collide with a 10,000 pound truck, the impact will be much, much worse than if you collide with a passenger car, … Continue reading
