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  • 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…

  • My letter to the Globe about the Kurmann fatality

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    The following is what I wrote. It was not published: I’ve read the Op-Ed piece by Andrew Fischer and Alan Wright, “Killing Bicyclists should be a crime” in the Sunday, January 28 (2018) Globe. I agree with Wright and Fischer that a charge of involuntary manslaughter against the trucker in the Anita Kurmann fatality is…

  • Bicyclists always had the right, the Globe got it wrong

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    The Starts and Stops column in the Metro section of the Sunday, June 10 2012 Boston Globe, and in Boston.com, included a discussion of whether bicyclists are required to ride in bike lanes, under the subheading “Bikers get the right” and concluding that there is no such requirement in Massachusetts. The article quotes Boston Bikes…

  • 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…

  • The Boston Globe’s photo album

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    Ah, the Boston Globe. On the one side we have conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby in the Globe of September 1, 2015, suggesting that bicyclists should all go for a nice ride in the park and stay off the streets. Though I’m a registered Democrat and liberal to centrist on most political issues, I often find…

  • Boston Globe Article Falls Flat

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    My letter to the editor of the Globe today. To the editor: Yes, I know this is too long to publish, but I hope that you will find it informative. A major impediment to safe bicycling and good street design is lack of knowledge. In the feature article “Safer Passages”, on the cover of Globe…