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Guest posting: John Ciccarelli on the NYC 9th Avenue bikeway
I consider the 9th Avenue bikeway to be “proper” engineering in the small (i.e. purely technical sense) but not in the larger (public stewardship) sense that considers the legal framework that governs a street’s function for all users. Continue reading
Posted in Sidepaths
Tagged 9th Avenue, bicycle, bike path, bikeway, intersection, Manhattan, New York, sidepath, traffic
2 Comments
Comparing crosswalk and bike box
Let’s just get it straight: bike boxes as commonly understood and implemented are a “buzzword” facility whose popularity is based on misconceptions, and which flies in the face of any common understanding of how to achieve traffic safety. Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bike box
Tagged advanced stop line, ASL, bicycle, bike box, collision, crosswalk
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Brief Review of book, Bicycling and the Law
All in all, I can recommend this book as a reference on laws of importance to bicyclists, but when technical issues arise, a bicyclist and the bicyclist’s lawyer may need the assistance of a technical expert – as does the author. Continue reading
Portland, Oregon HAWK Beacon
A HAWK beacon installation at 41st and East Burnside Avenue in Portland, Oregon, is unusual, as it applies to bicyclists, not only pedestrians This posting describes the Portlan HAWK beacon installation and makes recommendations for improvements. Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities
Tagged beacon, bicycle, HAWK, HAWK beacon, Oregon, pedestrian, Portland
5 Comments
Hawthorne Bridge discussion gets thorny
Riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is rarely a better choice than riding in the street, but it is better on the Hawthorne bridge in Portland, Oregon, which has a narrow roadway with a treacherous steel-grid deck. I first rode … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Cycle tracks, Sidepaths
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, collision, crash, curb, Hawthorne, Hawthorne Bridge, Mark Stosberg, Oregon, pedestrian, physicall separated, Portland, safety, separated, sidepath, sidewalk, Stosberg, vehicle, vehicular
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Don’t be the dancing bear
The dancing-bear experiment cleverly misleads the viewer, concealing the bear (see comments at end of this posting), but the experimentis misleading on another level too, in suggesting that such concealment is the norm and in conveying a fatalistic message.. Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bear, bicycle, Bicycling, crash, dancing, dancing bear, inattentional blindness, safety
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Bike box rationales
On another Web page, I have discussed the features and operational characteristics of so-called “bike boxes”, in which bicyclists wait for traffic signals ahead of the stop line for motor traffic. I recommend that page as background information for this … Continue reading
Idaho special bicycle laws
Idaho law allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign. See https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title49/t49ch7/sect49-720/ It also allows a bicyclist to treat a traffic signal as a stop sign. I would support the traffic signal aspect of this law as … Continue reading
German town’s traffic plan: retrenchment, not radicalism
Parts of European cities have a modern streetscape, — Paris, due to Baron Haussmann‘s urban-renewal projects in the mid-19th century; many other cities, due to bombing in World War II and subsequent reconstruction. But ancient, narrow streets without sidewalks are … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, shared space
Tagged Bicycling, Bohmte, Craig Whitlock, Europe, Germany, law, safety, shared space, Whitlock, woonerf
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Muenster road space poster — check the numbers!
The caption “amount of space needed to transport the same number of people by bus, bicycle or car” is misleading, because the vehicles shown are parked, not moving. All in all, the Muenster poster and the US government publicaiton that quotes it make an apples vs oranges vs. pears comparison – of dried fruit. Continue reading
