Tag Archives: bike path

Turn out the lights?

My attention has been drawn to a video from the U.K. that advocates removal of traffic signals. I am sure that removing traffic signals is sometimes beneficial — my late friend Gihon Jordan pioneered it in Philadelphia, and he was … Continue reading

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Such language!

The following are my comments on a post on P. M. Summer’s CycleDallas blog [http://cycledallas.blogspot.com/2010/10/texbike-tbc-is-ok-with-texas-mandatory.html], no longer available and not archived. I’d have liked to post my comments there, but they were longer than allowed by the software on Summer’s … Continue reading

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Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC: Incredible Shrinking Bike Lanes

Slam dunk indeed. It turned out that bicyclists were slammed, and dunked.
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Guest posting: John Ciccarelli on the NYC 9th Avenue bikeway

I consider the 9th Avenue bikeway to be “proper” engineering in the small (i.e. purely technical sense) but not in the larger (public stewardship) sense that considers the legal framework that governs a street’s function for all users. Continue reading

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