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Tipping point for electric bikes?
I have just returned home from the 2010 Interbike bicycle trade fair in Las Vegas. This was the year for electrically-assisted bicycles – over 40 booths displayed them. Here are some examples: The Nirve Lahaina electric bike is essentially just … Continue reading
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC: Incredible Shrinking Bike Lanes
Slam dunk indeed. It turned out that bicyclists were slammed, and dunked.
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Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes
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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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
Posted in Bicycling
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
Guest posting: P. M. Summer on a new breed of bicycle professionals
P. M. Summer is the former bicycle coordinator of Dallas, Texas, who was removed from his job because of his conservative approach to bicycle facilities. I post the following with his permission: There is a whole new breed of bicycle … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Cycle tracks, Sidepaths
Tagged Amsterdam, Andy Clarke, bicycle, Bicycling, Dallas, Europe, landscape architect, P.M. Summer, planner, r traffic engineer, safety, Texas, transportation, transportation planne, urban planner, vehicle, vehicular
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Research says bicyclists should run red lights?
Dr. Anne Lusk made an interesting comment on red lights: (quote is here): Female bicyclists in England are being killed at a higher rate than males because females wait for the green light to proceed and then are hit by … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Crashes, Laws
Tagged Anne Lusk, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, collision, Harvard School of Public Health, law, Lusk, traffic signal
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Comments on a safety-in-numbers study
The University of California has published a study of pedestrian crashes in Oakland, California, The Continuing Debate about Safety in Numbers—Data from Oakland, CA Judy Geyer, Noah Raford and David Ragland, Traffic Safety Center; Trinh Pham, Department of Statistics, UC … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Crashes
Tagged Berkeley, bicycle, collision, crosswalk, Jacobsen, Oakland, pedestrian, research, safety, safety in numbers, University of California
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Dutch traffic jams
Many bicycle planners and advocates would like to suggest that increases in bicycle use lead to a decrease in motor vehicle use. The Netherlands is often held up as an example. The reality there is different. Here’s a quote from … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bus, congestion, Europe, Holland, Netherlands, public transportation, rail, traffic jams
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German cycling organization’s comments on cycle tracks
Here are the comments in English. The translation is posted with permission granted by Heinz Brockmann of the ADFC (German Cycling Federation) Bottrop chapter. Many thanks! And here is the same document in the original German. Please note that the … Continue reading
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Tagged ADFC, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, Bottrop, crash, cycle track, Germany, law, pedestrian, safety, sidepath, sidewalk
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