EcoVelo » Blog Archive » One Foot in Each Camp: Ecovelo “A debate regarding the validity of separated bicycling facilities has raged on non-stop for many years. On one side there is John Forester and the bicyclists and planners who support a strictly vehicular approach to bicycling based upon using our current road system,...
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Two thoughts on bike lanes
Bicyclists are changing our streets and cities
Bicyclists are changing our streets and cities ~ SeattlePI.com In Portland, where he is a political writer with The Oregonian, Mapes’ bike commutes were made safer when the city shut down one entrance ramp to the Hawthorne Bridge that was causing bike-car conflicts. “A movement has grown slowly, under the radar screen, which people...
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Rolling Stops: Get Ready to Rumble
I see a fight on the horizon, and it ain’t going to look pretty! Motorist vs cyclists! Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo. Story credit to EcoVelo
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The physics of why bicyclists hate stop signs – Hard Drive
The physics of why bicyclists hate stop signs – Hard Drive “In their essay ‘Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs,’ University of California physics professor Joel Fajans and Access transportation journal editor Melanie Curry write that requiring cyclists to follow the same complete-stop rules as motorists defies science. ‘While car drivers simply sigh at the...
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Seattle’s Doing It
SDOT Creates On-Street Bicycle Parking Working to support the city’s growing number of bicyclists, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will create on-street bicycle parking in neighborhoods around Seattle. With a goal of having one to two per neighborhood, the department will install these unique bike facilities at three locations starting next week. Taking...
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