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A Second Look at the Boulevard de Maisonneuve

Main point I’m making with of this post: where’s the two-way, separated, “protected” bikeway in the Google Street View below? When I rode Montréal’s Boulevard de Maisonneuve bikeway in the summer of 2008, there were some nasty detours around construction … Continue reading

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Manufacturing traffic jams on Grand Street, Manhattan

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

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

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

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

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Davis Planners and Advocates Opine on Sidepaths

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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Guest posting by John Schubert: New York, City of Confrontation

Responding to an article in the New York Times, a correspondent asked John Schubert Why isn’t NYC concerned about being sued because of lousy bike-lane- design-caused wrecks? and he replied: Good question. I think it’s important to know the answer … Continue reading

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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

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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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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

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