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Author: jsallen

  • Boston Globe op-ed

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    This is a comment on the Boston Globe op-ed at https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/opinion/bicycle-crashes-separated-bike-lanes-cambridge-boston/ With all due respect and sympathy for the friends and relatives of the three cyclists killed in Cambridge in 2024, also my personal sense of loss as an MIT alumnus about the cyclist who was a star grad student there, two of the three…

  • Eoin O’Carroll altercation, 09-2011

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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/

  • Moderation of comment on Massbike

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    [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 its annual National Bicycle Summit — it was that time of year. ] http://massbike.org/blog/2012/03/19/progress-in-dc-but-battle-continues-virtual-lobby-day-thursday/ The…

  • Bowker Overpass comments

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    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 either side of Charlesgate., and the replacement of the narrow two-way bikeway next to Charlesgate…

  • Commonwealth Avenue meeting of October 9, 2014

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    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 Riverside light rail line. Buses were running between Fenway and Kenmore stations while a barrier…

  • About the Chris Weigl crash —

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    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 January 7, 2025 to assure that I have permission to publish his comments. During the…

  • Martine Powers talk, October 17, 2013

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    [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 archived, but see this.] Livable Streets founder Jeff Rosenblum introduced Powers. He mentioned things he…

  • Bully on Bedford Street

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    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 there is oncoming traffic. I’m going about 20 miles per hour. That’s about as fast…

  • A shared-lane marking placement

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    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 risks. A right hook occurred here on May 21, 2012. More recently, the bike lane…

  • Hubway right-angle parking

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    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. By August 2024, the Hubway station had been moved and there was a new building…