Tag Archives: Bikes Belong

What color is your bike lane?

Posted on February 14, 2011 by jsallen

Should the pavement in a crosswalk, or special on-street bicycle facility, be painted a special color? Under what conditions? What color? European countries use color. Let’s look at a few examples and see what they might teach us. First let … Continue reading →

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Tom Revay: PeopleforBikes is an industry lobby

Posted on September 25, 2010 by jsallen

[I publish tom Revay’s comments here with his permission. My own comments here are in italics, like this one — John Allen] On June 10, 2010, someone posted on the BostonAreaCycling e-mail list: There is a new pro-bike website organized … Continue reading →

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What’s Good for Trek is Good for the Country?

Posted on September 18, 2010 by jsallen

There is a long history of “Astroturf” self-promotion campaigns by industry masquerading as grassroots popular movements. In the title of this post, I paraphrase a line you may recall. Actually, what the president of General Motors said wasn’t quite “what’s … Continue reading →

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