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Such language!
The following are my comments on a post on P. M. Summer’s CycleDallas blog. I’d have liked to post my comments there, but they are longer than allowed by the software on Summer’s site. Quoting Robin Stallings, Executive Director of … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes
Tagged advocacy, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bike path, BikeTexas, bikeway, cycle track, cycle tracks, CycleDallas, Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, legal, P. M. Summers, practicable, protected, Reed Bates, Robert Jay Lifton, Robin Stallings, safety, shared lane marking, sharrow, sidepath, sidepaths, SLM, Stallings, TBC, Texas Bicycle Coalition, thought-terminating cliché
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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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Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes
Tagged bicycle, bike lane, bike path, bikeway, crash, crosswalk, cycle track, cycle tracks, DC, District of Columbia, League of American Bicyclists, motor vehicle, pedestrian, safety, traffic, traffic calming, traffic signal, vehicle, Washington
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Research says bicyclists should run red lights?
Dr. Anne Lusk made an interesting comment on red lights: (quote is here): Female bicyclists in England are being killed at a higher rate than males because females wait for the green light to proceed and then are hit by … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Crashes, Laws
Tagged Anne Lusk, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, collision, Harvard School of Public Health, law, Lusk, traffic signal
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German cycling organization’s comments on cycle tracks
Here are the comments in English. The translation is posted with permission granted by Heinz Brockmann of the ADFC (German Cycling Federation) Bottrop chapter. Many thanks! And here is the same document in the original German. Please note that the … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes, Cycle tracks, Sidepaths
Tagged ADFC, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, Bottrop, crash, cycle track, Germany, law, pedestrian, safety, sidepath, sidewalk
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Ciccarelli on cycle tracks
John Ciccarelli is a consultant on bicycling and a League of American Bicyclists-certified cycling instructor who specializes in teaching adults who have never ridden a bicycle before. His comments here are reprinted by permission, and are in response to an … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Cycle tracks, Laws, New York City, Sidepaths
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bikeway, Ciccarelli, Copenhagen, curb, cycle track, cycle tracks, Denmark, Europe, Holland, John Ciccarelli, law, Netherlands, safety, sidepaths, USA, vehicle, vehicular
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Copenhagen in 1937 — what can it tell us?
I thank Ralph Fertig of the Santa Barbara, California Bicycle Coalition for drawing the attention of the bicycling community to the following fascinating travelogue from Copenhagen, shot in Technicolor in 1937. Not all of the film is about bicycling, but … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Cycle tracks, traffic circles
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, Copenhagen, cycle track, Denmark, Europe, vehicular, Vikings
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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
Posted in Sidepaths
Tagged 9th Avenue, bicycle, bike path, bikeway, intersection, Manhattan, New York, sidepath, traffic
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Hawthorne Bridge discussion gets thorny
Riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is rarely a better choice than riding in the street, but it is better on the Hawthorne bridge in Portland, Oregon, which has a narrow roadway with a treacherous steel-grid deck. I first rode … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Cycle tracks, Sidepaths
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, collision, crash, curb, Hawthorne, Hawthorne Bridge, Mark Stosberg, Oregon, pedestrian, physicall separated, Portland, safety, separated, sidepath, sidewalk, Stosberg, vehicle, vehicular
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Bike box rationales
On another Web page, I have discussed the features and operational characteristics of so-called “bike boxes”, in which bicyclists wait for traffic signals ahead of the stop line for motor traffic. I recommend that page as background information for this … Continue reading
Review of New York Times article of June 5, 2007
This is a review of the article Cars and Bikes Can Mix, When the Rules of the Road Are Clear, which appeared in the New York Times on June 5, 2007 and is available online. That’s a good headline, except … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Crashes, Laws, Reviews
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, Brody, crash, crashes, fatalities, helmet, Jane Brody, Jane E. Brody, League of American Bicyclists, Manhattan, New York, New York Times, safety
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