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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
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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
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
Diversion fall
Was it the strength workouts at a gym, a new routine for me at age 60? Was it the judo class I took so long ago, in high school — my father’s hopeful but feckless plan for me to fend … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, crash, diversion, diversion fall, fall, helmet, safety
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Review of New York Times article of June 5, 2007
This is a review of the article Cars and Bikes Can Mix, When the Rules of the Road Are Clear, which appeared in the New York Times on June 5, 2007 and is available online. That’s a good headline, except … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Crashes, Laws, Reviews
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, Brody, crash, crashes, fatalities, helmet, Jane Brody, Jane E. Brody, League of American Bicyclists, Manhattan, New York, New York Times, safety
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