About bicycling issues in eastern Massachusetts, especially the Boston urban area.
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/09/15/helmet-camera-captures-carbike-confrontation-in-boston/ http://www.universalhub.com/2011/massholes-dont-acknowledging-somebody-else-has-rig http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/10/03/boston-driver-says-cyclist-went-too-far-in-videotaped-confrontation/
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Moderation of comment on Massbike
[This message was from 2013. The answer: to the question in the post is that cyclists’s rights are not the strong point of much bicycling advocacy.My comment was in response to lobbying initiated by the League of American Bicyclists at…
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Bowker Overpass comments
Below are my comments on planned changes at Charlesgate and the Bowker Overpass in Boston. To summarize, I support most of the planned work, but I would like to see a more direct connection between the segments of Newbury Street…
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Commonwealth Avenue meeting of October 9, 2014
I attended the meeting at Boston University about Commonwealth Avenue in the evening of December 9, 2014. It was a day of unusually heavy rain. I got to the meeting about 1/2 hour late because of delays on the MBTA…
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About the Chris Weigl crash —
Comments below are by Kirby Beck, who worked on the Weigl crash as an expert consultant. Beck is a retired police officer, avid recreational cyclist, co-founder and trainer #02 of the International Police Mountain Bike Association. I phoned Beck on…
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Martine Powers talk, October 17, 2013
[note: article is from 2013, posted December 29, 2024.] Martine Powers was the Boston Globe‘s transportation reporter. She addressed a meeting at the Livable Streets office in Cambridge on October 17, 2013, see http://www.livablestreets.info/event/streettalk-behind-scenes-globe-transportation-reporter [Note: no longer online and not…
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Bully on Bedford Street
Draft saved on October 25, 2014; Publlihed on December 26, 2024. I’m riding Bedford Street in Waltham, heading toward where it ends at Prospect Street. Bedford Street runs slightly downhill. Its too narrow for cars to pass me safely if…
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A shared-lane marking placement
Dorchester Avenue at Savin Hill Avenue, Boston, August, 2014, from a Google Street View: The door zone bike lane ends and then a shared-lane marking directs bicyclists to zigzag to the right where they are exposed to right-hook and left-cross…
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Hubway right-angle parking
Note: Some conditions shown are as of 2014; article retrieved and revised in 2024. On Boylston Street just west of Massachusetts Avenue, Hubway bicycle users had to back the bicycles out into a traffic lane to release them from kiosks.…
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Bike lane quiz
How many hazards can you see for a bicyclist in the location shown in this Google Street view? A bicyclist in the bike lane in the camera location would just be appearing to the driver of the red car from…
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