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About dockless bike share
Your bike: you own it and look after it. Docking bike share: the company owns it and it is secured at the dock when not being ridden. If you lose it, you bought it. Dockless bike: once it is locked … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
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Fewer roads in the future?
I’m responding to a comment on the facebook post which started with the sharing of the 13-lane animation on which I commented in my previous post on this blog. A commenter stated: …I don’t think it oversells the space because … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged autonomous, bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, future, motor vehicle, road, safety, traffic, utopia, vehicle, wheel
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Another inaccurate use-of-space display
https://www.facebook.com/urbanthoughts11/videos/570538686622524/ Where is there a street with 13 lanes in one direction? Show me one, please. Not even in Los Angeles. Problem is, no city could have enough parking to support the amount of traffic such a street would carry, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, bus, car, cycle track, cycle tracks, motorvehicle, pedestrian, space, urban, vehicle
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Motordom and the Mohawk Trail
Relentless promotion, political and business manipulation by “motordom” (follow the money…) have been held largely responsible for the triumph of motoring in the USA in the early 20th Century. Peter Norton’s book Fighting Traffic is the best-known work making this … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Books, Reviews
Tagged advocacy, Berkshire Country, Berkshires, book, Hoosac Mountain, Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts, Mohawk Trail, motor vehicle, New York, North Adams, Route 2, Taconic, Vermont
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Doored in Union Square
https://danconnor.com/posts/541542fd45b74d6952000001/on_the_video_in_which_i_am_doored_by_a_taxi (Note: the video is no longer online but a screen clip is on another page.) I see a lot of people who comment here discussing fault. Fault and crash prevention are not the same. I’ll take crash prevention any … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, New York City, Sidepaths
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, collision, crash, New York, safety, traffic, video
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Description and history of the location of the Tempe crash
Comments from Reed Kempton, a Senior Planner with the Maricopa County Department of Transportation, late in the day on March 21. This is an addition to my earlier post about the crash. I thank Reed for his permission to post … Continue reading
Posted in Crashes
Tagged Arizona, bicycle, collision, crash, fatality, Maricopa County, pedestrian, Reed Kepton, safety, Tempe, traffic, Uber
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The Tempe crash
The dashcam video in the recent Tempe crash which killed a woman walking across the street with a bicycle has now been released. To me, it is quite clear that the human driver was dozing off or distracted and that … Continue reading
Posted in Crashes
Tagged bicycle, collision, crash, fatality, Maricopa County, pedestrian, Reed Kempton, rizona, safety, Tempe, traffic, Uber
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Another deceptive poster
More evidence that the anti-car crowd can’t think its way out of a paper bag. Even when they could make a much better case for themselves. The text, in Italian, reads “space necessary to transport 48 persons: auto, electric car, robotic … Continue reading
Jim Melcher and America’s Perestroika
Jim Melcher was one of my professors at MIT. He was also was a year-round bicycle commuter and in 1977, one of the first 25 members of the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition, In the 1980s, his activism expanded into issues … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, Boston, cancer, Course 6, E.E., EE, electrical engineering, Electromagnetic field theory, Electromagnetism, energy policy, engineering, Iraq War, James Melcher, Jim Melcher, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Middle East, Military policy, MIT, oil, Politics
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Some Portland weirdness
Oregon cyclist Hal Ballard posted this picture in a Facebook group. (You may or not be able to see the original post). You may click on the image for a larger view. Here is a Google Street View from before … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes, SLM
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, crosswalk, curb, Oregon, Portland
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