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Tag Archives: bicycle
Bruce Epperson’s observations on transportation funding
Bicycle historian Bruce Epperson has written a paper examining trends in transportation funding in the USA from the 1960s to the present. It makes interesting reading. With his permission, I have made the paper available in PDF format on this … Continue reading
Wow, it’s a laser!
A post on the Grind online news site heralds the Blaze, a laser bicycle light gimmick — not the first to be reviewed on this blog The Blaze hits the market with some rather clever — and deceptive — advertising … Continue reading
Helmet disparagement and ethics
To quote the late, great Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman, “Never treat anyone in the public sphere like an idiot. If you treat him like an idiot, he will act like an idiot.” Providing helmets is difficult when bicycles are … Continue reading
M. Kary on the epidemiological approach to traffic-safety research
M. Kary has released the manuscript of his paper on the unsuitability of the epidemiological approach in studying traffic safety. Unsuitability of the Epidemiological Approach to Bicycle Transportation Injuries and Traffic Engineering Problems Author: M Kary Injury Prevention 2015;21:73-76, Published … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged Anne Lusk, bias risk, BICE, bicycle, Bicycling, bicyclist, diversion bias, epidemiological, epidemiology, Harris, helmet, Kary, Lusk, M. Kary, research, safety, scientific method, Teschke, Toronto, Vancover
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Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt seeks to purge engineers
I just ran across a post from March 2015 by Angie Schmitt for Streetblog: The title is “Engineering Establishment Sets Out to Purge Deviant Bikeway Designs” I quote: The NCUTCD consists mostly of older engineers from state DOTs. In recent … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged Angie Schmitt, bicycle, cycle track, NACTO, NCUTCD, protected bike lane, Streetsblog
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A review of the film Bikes vs. Cars
I knew I’d have a problem with the film just based on the the title. There can be animosity between people on bikes and in cars, but bikes and cars are machines, which have no feelings and generally don’t get … Continue reading
The Downtube bike
On the weekend of November 7 and 8, 2015, I traveled to Pennsylvania and attended the Philadelphia Bicycle Exposition. My host John Schubert lent me his Downtube folding bicycle. I used it to explore the city and shoot video of … Continue reading
Reflective Clothing as Panacea — again.
This photo in a New York Times article (also archived, slower but no paywall) shows a bicyclist riding with a reflectorized shirt, which shows up well in a photo taken with flash on the camera, but the bicyclist has NO … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, clothing, law, lighting, reflectors, safety
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Another crosswalk confusion, and a fatality
In response to my post about confused yielding requirements where shared-use paths cross streets, Ryan Reasons has published comments on a recent fatal truck-bicycle crash in the Seattle, Washington area. The photo below is from the KOMO TV/radio station news … Continue reading
Some thoughts about self-driving cars
Google’s report on its self-driving cars: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/selfdrivingcar/files/reports/report-0515.pdf — no longer available. Here is an updated version. Most than half of the collisions reported in this document are slow-speed rear-enders of the Google cars. That’s unusual. It might be that the … Continue reading
