About bicycling issues in eastern Massachusetts, especially the Boston urban area.
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We’ll start with a video where a motorist abruptly changed lanes to pass a vehicle on the right at speed and had to swerve left to avoid striking a bicyclist who had been concealed by the vehicle being passed. Here…
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Sparks Street
Let’s have a look at Huron Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts as it crosses Sparks Street and Royal Avenue.This stretch is downhill right to left in the overhead view. The buffer is on the wrong side of the bike lane, placing…
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Making Commonwealth Avenue work for everyone?
The Barr Foundation has published an interview with Livable Streets Executive Director Jackie Douglas under the headline “Making Our Streets Work for Everyone”. The main point which Douglas makes is that progress, and a victory, as she describes it, were…
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Massachusetts law omissions
In a previous post, I mentioned that Massachusetts General Laws include no requirement to wait at a red traffic signal. Here are details, from a search of the Massachusetts General Laws online, http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/ . Chapter 89, section 8 of the…
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MHD bicycle detection document
The Massachusetts Highway Department published the document Bicycle Detection at Signalized Intersections in 1998. This includes the recommendations for quadrupole loops in the 1986 San Diego study, which is cited as a reference. The Massachusetts document reflects progress, in recognizing…
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Meng Jin, and Charles River Dam Road
MIT student Meng Jin died as he rode up to and past the corner in a bike lane on Museum Way, to the right of a truck that turned right onto Charles River Dam Road. That tragedy has led to…
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Connect Historic Boston complaint
Charles Denison, who is generally in favor of infrastructure projects, expresses his dislike of the part of the Connect Historic Boston project on Causeway Street.
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Boston Bike Party
I rode a Boston Bike Party ride. The Boston Bike Party is more or less a friendlier version of Critical Mass — not in-your-face confrontational, but still they held a parade without a permit, corking intersections, riding through neighborhoods with…
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Seen in Lexington
I have not yet ridden on the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue where bike lanes have been placed to the right of parked cars. I missed that opportunity when my bicycle had a flat tire and I couldn’t fix the inner…
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What is the authority for this sign?
The sign in this photo, which I have copied from a Facebook post, is well-intentioned, but it arouses very mixed feelings in me. I have no sympathy for people who ride at unsafe speeds around other path users, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD9u01lVxe8.…
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