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Category: Reporting

  • 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…

  • Sheet of ice draws praise from advocates

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    The headline of the Boston Globe article with this picture is “Snowbank becomes accidental hero for area cyclists”. The shiny area in the bikeway is meltwater from said snowbank. When the temperature drops below freezing, the meltwater becomes a sheet of black ice. This problem is unavoidable with a street-level barrier-separated bikeway. I discussed it…

  • The Globe Screws Up on Nighttime Safety

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    The Boston Globe has published an article titled “Survival Guide for Running and Biking in the Dark.” This picture appeared with the article: you need it to understand my comments. The article addresses issues of retroreflector placement and motion, while not discussing when retroreflectors can work, or cannot work at all. The bicyclists in the…

  • About Bob Zeeb’s crash

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    Bob Zeeb was a teacher in the Newton Public Schools, a colleague of my wife’s. I feel compelled to set the record straight about his unfortunate death in a bicycle crash on November 10, 2009. From an e-mail message sent out today by Livable Streets: Bike4Life was founded by the Zeeb family in memory of…

  • ShelBroCo American Way bicycles

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    New! Exclusive! Now thanks to ShelBroCo, you can OWN the urban bicycle of your dreams! Take your stand for the American Way!

  • I’ve been interviewed!

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    Diane Lees interviewed me for The Outspoken Cyclist radio program which will stream at 5:30 PM EDT Saturday, April 23rd 2011 at 5:30pm EDT at http://www.wjcu.org/media/audio/shows/outspokencyclist or on 88.7FM – WJCU from University Hts., OH. and be available from 6:30 PM at the same address as a podcast. {As of December 30, 2024, available at…