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Tag Archives: bike lane
Is this an electrically-assisted bicycle?
The photo above is of ELF microcars from the US company Organic Transit. The ELF is marketed as a velocar — an enclosed, pedal-powered vehicle — but in reality, it is an electrically-powered microcar designed to meet the legal definition … Continue reading
When slow is too fast
The basic speed limit, not to go too fast under the existing conditions, is often lower than the posted speed limit. When facilities like the bike lane in the video are built in which 10 mph, or even 5 mph, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, collision, crash, safety
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Is the NACTO Guide a Design Manual?
In cities around the USA, politicians, under pressure from populist bicycling advocates, have pointed to the NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide and directed their engineering staff to install treatments which it describes. I’ll say … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike box
Tagged 2STQB, bicycle, Bicycling, bike box, bike lane, bikeway, collision, crash, crosswalk, cycle track, cycle tracks, guidance, law, MUTCD, NACTO, option, safety, sidepath, standard, traffic, traffic signal, Two-step turn queuing box, vehicle
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PeopleforBikes Praises Flawed Figueroa Bikeway Design
The bicycle industry lobby Peopleforbikes has posted the image below, identified as an official rendering, of the proposed bikeway on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles. PeopleforBikes praises the political developments which led to this project and describes it as a … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, crash, Figueroa, Los Angelse, Peopleforbikes, safety
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Bike Box at Charlesgate East
This post is about the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue eastbound and Charlesgate East in Boston, Massachusetts, an intersection with a “bike box” — a waiting area for bicyclists downstream of where motorists stop for traffic signals. More generally, this post … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike box, bike lane, Boston, crash, crosswalk, law, Massachusetts, motor vehicle, Oregon, pedestrian, safety, sidewalk, traffic signal, vehicle, vehicular, video
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A million bucks to build it, another million to tear it out
Build it wrong, and you may have to spend as much money tearing it out as you did putting it in. This is not a new problem — it is the story of public housing developments of the 1950s, now … Continue reading
Response to Adam Auster’s comment about Arlington Center
I’m responding to Adam Auster’s comment on my previous post: On the other hand the route would cross the sidewalk, which can be quite busy, 3 times. (To say nothing of the crosswalk because you already mention it.) Let’s compare … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged Arlington, bike lane, bikeway, law, Massachusetts, Minuteman, traffic
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Further suggestions for Arlington Center
On the evening of November 6, 2013, I attended a public hearing about the Arlington Center project. A representative of the city described the town’s plan. There were some changes and clarifications of what was shown at Town Day, and … Continue reading
Arlington Center westbound — avoiding the right hook
The Town of Arlington, Massachusetts has proposed changes to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue with Mystic Street/Pleasant Street (really one street, which changes name at the intersection). I’ve posted a video of a bicycle ride I took through Arlington Center, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged Arlington, bike lane, bikeway, crash, law, Massachusetts, Minuteman, right hook, traffic
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Weird intersection, Drake Street and Burrard Street, Vancouver
Drake Street and Burrard Street in Vancouver. View Larger Map Riding into an intersection on the left side of the street has been shown again and again to be highly hazardous. Bicyclists are supposed to stop at the stop sign, … Continue reading
