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Mighk Wilson’s report on Orlando bicycle crashes
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
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes, Crashes, Cycle tracks, Sidepaths
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bike path, bikeway, collision, crash, cycle track, cycle tracks, Florida, Metroplan Orlando, Mighk Wilson, motor vehicle, Orlando, research, safety, sidepath, sidewalk, traffic
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Some comments on electric scooters
At various dates in 2018, companies Bird, Lime, Skip and Spin have released dockless electrically-powered scooters into a number of US cities — sometimes with approval from the city government, sometimes without. These scooters represent more or less a third … Continue reading
The definitive paper about loop detectors, published 1986
The City of San Diego, California, USA published its Traffic Signal Bicycle Detection Study Final Report in 1986. I have scanned a copy of the document and posted it online. This report’s main topic is inductive-loop traffic-signal detectors. These are … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Traffic Signals
Tagged actuator, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, collision, crash, LIDAR, loop detector, motor vehicle, safety, San Diego, traffic, traffic signal, video
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Fewer roads in the future?
I’m responding to a comment on the facebook post which started with the sharing of the 13-lane animation on which I commented in my previous post on this blog. A commenter stated: …I don’t think it oversells the space because … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged autonomous, bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, future, motor vehicle, road, safety, traffic, utopia, vehicle, wheel
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Another inaccurate use-of-space display
https://www.facebook.com/urbanthoughts11/videos/570538686622524/ Where is there a street with 13 lanes in one direction? Show me one, please. Not even in Los Angeles. Problem is, no city could have enough parking to support the amount of traffic such a street would carry, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, bus, car, cycle track, cycle tracks, motorvehicle, pedestrian, space, urban, vehicle
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Doored in Union Square
https://danconnor.com/posts/541542fd45b74d6952000001/on_the_video_in_which_i_am_doored_by_a_taxi (Note: the video is no longer online but a screen clip is 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 crash prevention any … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, New York City, Sidepaths
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, collision, crash, New York, safety, traffic, video
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Another deceptive poster
More evidence that the anti-car crowd can’t think its way out of a paper bag. Even when they could make a much better case for themselves. The text, in Italian, reads “space necessary to transport 48 persons: auto, electric car, robotic … Continue reading
Jim Melcher and America’s Perestroika
Jim Melcher was one of my professors at MIT. He was also was a year-round bicycle commuter and in 1977, one of the first 25 members of the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition, In the 1980s, his activism expanded into issues … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, Boston, cancer, Course 6, E.E., EE, electrical engineering, Electromagnetic field theory, Electromagnetism, energy policy, engineering, Iraq War, James Melcher, Jim Melcher, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Middle East, Military policy, MIT, oil, Politics
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Some Portland weirdness
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
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes, SLM
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, crosswalk, curb, Oregon, Portland
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Lessons of Spruce Street
I’m posting this in connection with the video I shot of a ride on Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, already embedded in an earlier post. Spruce Street is a one-way street with parallel parking on the left side, and a bike … Continue reading
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Tagged Becca Refford, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, collision, crash, cycle track, cycle tracks, Emily Fredericks, law, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, safety, Spruce Street, traffic, traffic signal, vehicle, vehicular, video
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