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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
German town’s traffic plan: retrenchment, not radicalism
Parts of European cities have a modern streetscape, — Paris, due to Baron Haussmann‘s urban-renewal projects in the mid-19th century; many other cities, due to bombing in World War II and subsequent reconstruction. But ancient, narrow streets without sidewalks are … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, shared space
Tagged Bicycling, Bohmte, Craig Whitlock, Europe, Germany, law, safety, shared space, Whitlock, woonerf
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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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