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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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Guest posting: P. M. Summer on a new breed of bicycle professionals
P. M. Summer is the former bicycle coordinator of Dallas, Texas, who was removed from his job because of his conservative approach to bicycle facilities. I post the following with his permission: There is a whole new breed of bicycle … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Cycle tracks, Sidepaths
Tagged Amsterdam, Andy Clarke, bicycle, Bicycling, Dallas, Europe, landscape architect, P.M. Summer, planner, r traffic engineer, safety, Texas, transportation, transportation planne, urban planner, vehicle, vehicular
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Comments on a safety-in-numbers study
The University of California has published a study of pedestrian crashes in Oakland, California, The Continuing Debate about Safety in Numbers—Data from Oakland, CA Judy Geyer, Noah Raford and David Ragland, Traffic Safety Center; Trinh Pham, Department of Statistics, UC … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Crashes
Tagged Berkeley, bicycle, collision, crosswalk, Jacobsen, Oakland, pedestrian, research, safety, safety in numbers, University of California
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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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Gridlock Sam’s magic powers!
New York’s former Traffic Commissioner and Chief Traffic Engineer, Sam Schwartz, “Gridlock Sam,” who describes himself as a “traffic guru”, has posted a Web page [updated and expanded since my original posting, apparently deleted sometime after October, 2014 but available … Continue reading
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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Don’t be the dancing bear
The dancing-bear experiment cleverly misleads the viewer, concealing the bear (see comments at end of this posting), but the experimentis misleading on another level too, in suggesting that such concealment is the norm and in conveying a fatalistic message.. Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bear, bicycle, Bicycling, crash, dancing, dancing bear, inattentional blindness, safety
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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
