Category Archives: Bike lanes

Throttled and doored

Posted on December 27, 2019 by jsallen

Sigh. I stopped motion at 2:54 in this video. The embedded image in the video is speeded up so you can’t get a good look at what it shows, but if you stop at the right place ( around 2;55), … Continue reading →

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Parklet: win-win or win-lose?

Posted on November 14, 2018 by jsallen

Near the right side of the photo below is a “parklet,” a seating area which replaces a couple of parking spaces on Somerville Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. A parklet may also contain a planting, as this one does. A … Continue reading →

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Mighk Wilson’s report on Orlando bicycle crashes

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jsallen

Mighk Wilson, who works for the Orlando, Florida metropolitan planning organization, has prepared a very interesting study of bicycle crashes in the Orlando area based on a database of 5,000 crashes, 2011-2017. The study is important in that it distinguishes … Continue reading →

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Doored in Union Square

Posted on March 24, 2018 by jsallen

(Note: the video is no longer online but there is a description, with a still image, 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 … Continue reading →

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Some Portland weirdness

Posted on January 24, 2018 by jsallen

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 →

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Chicago Bike Lane Guide, a Blast from the Past

Posted on October 31, 2017 by jsallen

The Chicago  Bike Lane Design Guide, published by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center of the University of North Carolina in cooperation with the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the City of Chicago, is available online on the NACTO site. What … Continue reading →

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An undertaking undertaking

Posted on October 16, 2017 by jsallen

I answered this question on the Quora question-answering site. Who is at fault if a driver undertakes you from behind you while you are safely making a left turn on a one-way road? First, let’ define “undertaking”. That doesn’t mean … Continue reading →

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Avoiding the left cross

Posted on September 2, 2017 by jsallen

This post isn’t about pointing the finger of blame. If that is to your taste, you would have been able to find endorsement of that position in many comments on the video below when it was originally posted on YouTube. … Continue reading →

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Alice Swanson fatality, a right hook

Posted on June 6, 2017 by jsallen

Here is the intersection in Washington, DC, where cyclist Alice Swanson was killed by a right-turning garbage truck. The Street View is from 2009, as close as Google gets to the year of the crash (2008). The big cross street … Continue reading →

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The “Dutch Reach”

Posted on February 3, 2017 by jsallen

I have sent the following message to Dr. Michael Charney, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, promoter of the “Dutch Reach”. The “Dutch Reach” is motorists’ opening the driver’s side door with the opposite hand, so they must look back for bicyclists riding … Continue reading →

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