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NYPD confiscates e-bikes.
This post is in response to an article by New York City reporter Vince Barone about the city’s police department confiscating electrically-assisted bicycles. The article is here. I also sent the comments below to Mr. Barone in an e-mail. Vince … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Equipment, New York City
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, confiscation, e-bike, electric, electrical assist, Manhattan, New York, New york City, NYC, NYPD, vehicle
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Michael Colville’s Pitch
About the video here by Mikael Colville of copenhagenize.com: Mikael Colville’s talk in the video is introduced by a video clip of a rather sorry infrastructure situation, with a crowd of bicyclists slowly making their way forward, cramped in a … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, Colville, Copenhagen, copenhagenize, environmentalism, Europe, marketing, Mikael Colville, motor vehicle, vehicle
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Duck Boat crashes
We had a duck boat run into a motor scooter from behind on Saturday, May 7, 2016 in Boston, killing one of the riders. It isn’t clear from the news story why this happened, though I expect that the poor … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Crashes
Tagged bicycle, Boston, collision, crash, duck boat, Massachusetts, moped, motor scooter, motor vehicle, safety, traffic, vehicle
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Lane Control on Lexington Street
Here’s a video showing a bicycle ride on a constant mile-long upslope, at speeds of 10 to 12 miles per hour (16 to 20 km/h), on a suburban 4-lane speedway with narrow lanes and no shoulders, the most challenging street … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, Boston, lane, lane control, law, Lexington, Massachusetts, motor vehicle, pedestrian, safety, traffic, vehicle, Waltham
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Some thoughts about self-driving cars
Google’s report on its self-driving cars: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/selfdrivingcar/files/reports/report-0515.pdf Most than half of the collisions reported in this document are slow-speed rear-enders of the Google cars. That’s unusual. It might be that the behavior of the Google cars is more cautious than … Continue reading
Ogden, Utah skateboarder stop
There’s plenty of confusion to go around here. http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=35631391 Deputy: “I don’t care, you’re right in the middle of the road.” No, the boarder was on the shoulder, at least in the part of the video the TV station broadcast. … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike lanes
Tagged law, Ogden, pedestrian, police, sidewalk, skateboard, traffic, Utah, vehicle
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Change lanes in a roundabout?
Ohio cyclist Patricia Kovacs posted an e-mail asking some questions about roundabouts: Ohio engineers are telling us to use the inner lane for left turns and U turns. Both the FHWA [Federal Highway Administration] and videos available on our local … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Roundabouts, traffic circles, Traffic Signals
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, crash, crosswalk, pedestrian, rotary, roundabout, safety, traffic, traffic circle, vehicle, video
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Monsere, Dill et al. — Not Yet a Review, But…
M. Kary, who prepared a review of the Lusk et al Montreal study, has had a preliminary look at the Monsere, Dill et al. study of barrier-separated on-street bikeways (“cycle tracks”) which the bicycle industry lobby PeopleforBikes is promoting as … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Cycle tracks
Tagged an Francisco, Austin, bicycle, Bicycling, bikeway, Chicago, collision, conflict, crash, cycle track, cycle tracks, DC, District of Columbia, pedestrian, Portland, protected, research, safety, sidepath, traffic, vehicle, video, Washington
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Is the NACTO Guide a Design Manual?
In cities around the USA, politicians, under pressure from populist bicycling advocates, have pointed to the NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide and directed their engineering staff to install treatments which it describes. I’ll say … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Bike box
Tagged 2STQB, bicycle, Bicycling, bike box, bike lane, bikeway, collision, crash, crosswalk, cycle track, cycle tracks, guidance, law, MUTCD, NACTO, option, safety, sidepath, standard, traffic, traffic signal, Two-step turn queuing box, vehicle
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Bike Box at Charlesgate East
This post is about the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue eastbound and Charlesgate East in Boston, Massachusetts, an intersection with a “bike box” — a waiting area for bicyclists downstream of where motorists stop for traffic signals. More generally, this post … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike box, bike lane, Boston, crash, crosswalk, law, Massachusetts, motor vehicle, Oregon, pedestrian, safety, sidewalk, traffic signal, vehicle, vehicular, video
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