Tag Archives: bike lane

Manufacturing traffic jams on Grand Street, Manhattan

Posted on May 4, 2011 by jsallen

Someone has watched my video of Grand Street, in Manhattan, and commented: John, I watched the Grand Street video (which was kind of fun) but I couldn’t help but notice you are passing a lot of cars, which makes your … Continue reading →

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Seville: bikeway color choice by popular poll

Posted on April 4, 2011 by jsallen

Please excuse the Spanish in the illustration below — though really, the content is self-evident. English resumes after the illustration. This post is a follow-up to the earlier one, “what color is your bike lane?”, which made the points, among … Continue reading →

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Report from Seville

Posted on April 3, 2011 by jsallen

A Spanish advocate of integrated cycling about conditions in Seville: Disastrous: officially (according to the Seville City Council), some 120 km of segregated cycle lanes (most of them bidirectional) have been built at an official cost of 30 million Euros. … Continue reading →

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The Gilham Road raised bike lane, Eugene, Oregon

Posted on March 31, 2011 by jsallen

I don’t think we are going to do that design again, but it was an interesting experiment. Continue reading →

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Mountable curbs

Posted on March 30, 2011 by jsallen

Mountable curbs have been suggested as a way to separate bike lanes or so-called “cycle tracks” from the rest of the street. I am not in favor of such curbs. After all, any obstacle has hazard potential, and a mountable … Continue reading →

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Lyon study — cyclists ride faster in rush hour?

Posted on December 7, 2010 by jsallen

A blog posting published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes a study of cycling in Lyon, France. News accounts of the report are making some rather strange assertions, such as that cyclists ride faster during rush hour than in … Continue reading →

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Davis Planners and Advocates Opine on Sidepaths

Posted on November 7, 2010 by jsallen

This post supplements my previous post linking to documents about Davis bicycle facilities. Please bear in mind that Davis was the first community to introduce bike lanes in the USA, and that its bicycle program strongly favors conventional bike lanes, … Continue reading →

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Davis, California historical documents

Posted on November 7, 2010 by jsallen

Thanks to John Ciccarelli, Robert Sommer and David Takemoto-Weerts — and David’s students — among others — I am able to post online a number of documents about bicycling in Davis, California and the Davis bicycle program. Davis has the … Continue reading →

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Green Wave, Checkered Flag?

Posted on October 29, 2010 by jsallen

I am writing this post in response to comments by Mighk Wilson and Khalil Spencer on another post on this blog. They discussed the difficulty of cycling in a city with synchronized traffic signals (a “green wave”) set to a … Continue reading →

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I approve of this?

Posted on October 29, 2010 by jsallen

UPDATE: This post gives background information on the intersection. I have now ridden through it, and my opinion of it has changed. I have another post about it, and a video. Please check them out. The image below shows a … Continue reading →

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