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  • My comments about Arlington Center

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    I’ve posted extensive comments about the proposed design for the Arlington Center gap in the Minuteman Commuter bikeway on my personal blog. In my opinion, the proposed design fails for bicyclists of all ages and levels of experience. I suggest designs which, in my opinion, would succeed. There will be a public meeting about 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…

  • Report on Longfellow Bridge public meeting, July 10, 2013

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    I attended the Longfellow Bridge public meeting on July 10. The meeting started with an overview of the project by representatives of the consultants, then a description of Phase One of the project. Detour of outbound motor traffic is via Leverett Circle, where there will be signal timing and ped safety improvements. The route will…

  • Truck-bicycle collision in Amherst kills Newton resident

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    Another fatal turnng truck-bicycle collision, in Amherst, Massachusetts [archived]. The bicyclist, Livingston Pangburn, age 22, was a former student of my wife, who taught math at Newton (Massachusetts) North High School. This was a left cross collision. The cyclist was going downhill and the truck, uphill. I don’t know details of this particular crash, but…

  • You too can prevent fatal truck-bicycle collisions

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    I am sick at heart. Last December we lost Chris Weigl, graduate student in journalism at Boston University, a young man of great promise, killed when a semitrailer truck ran over him on Commonwealth Avenue near the BU campus. The green arrow approximates Weigl’s line of travel; the red arrow, the truck’s. (Also see larger…

  • I got a letter in the mail…

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    And this picture was printed on the envelope. How sweet? I don’t think so. Read this, please. .

  • Report on April 9, 2013 Longfellow Bridge meeting.

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    I attended the Longfellow Bridge meeting last night. There was good attendance from cycling and public transportation advocates and others concerned about the project — mostly, neighbors — although there were complaints about lack of publicity of the meeting — people who were on e-mail lists but not e-mailed. This was almost entirely a meeting…

  • About Beacon Street, Somerville

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    I am writing in response to Alex Epstein’s letter [sorry, it’s gone — no archive and no search on the site], published as an article in the Somerville Patch, concerning the proposed cycle track treatment on Beacon Street. I write as one of the cyclists who suggested an alternative design at community meetings and a…

  • Connecting the Boston University campus

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    The Boston University campus is, let’s face it, a strip mall with classrooms. Commonwealth Avenue is the only way to get from one end of the campus to the other. Following the tragic death last December of Boston University student Chris Weigl, various suggestions have been made for how to improve Commonwealth Avenue. Here is…

  • Some thoughts about the Allston fatality

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    [Follow-up note: this was the Chris Weigl fatality, See news story [archived]. [Boston Globe video with photos] [Comments by a consultant] I have cycled and motored through the crash location many times, and I’ve seen the photos — the trucker was making a wide right turn, necessarily slowly. The cyclist was traveling downhill, fast according…