December 2009
32 posts
Worst Commute in 20 Years? Not if you were on a... →
Stories of the Streets: The Legacy of SF Critical... →
You may not care if you’re winning hearts and minds, but overall, the point of Critical Mass is not a fraudulent “class war” between cars and bikes. We started Critical Mass to be a new kind of public space, and to help promote a different way of being together in city streets. Rolling along on bikes, tinkling bells, chatting and discussing, smelling an exhaust-free atmosphere, listening to...
3 Types of Safety: Lessons from the Dutch
There are three measures of safety, all of which have their place in Dutch bicycle provision:
Actual safety - How many km you can expect to travel before you’re injured on your bike.
Subjective safety - Are you near fast moving traffic ? Is it easy to make a turn across traffic ? Do you have to cycle “fast” in order to keep up ?
Social safety - Is there a...
3 youth struck by car while crossing historically... →
Deputies said the children were wearing dark clothing and that Venegas told them he did not see the children until his car hit them. Venegas, deputies said, was issued a citation for “Passing Stopped Vehicle at Crosswalk.”
Here is local news coverage of this intersection from 6 months earlier. Included in the report is ODOT’s response that a signalized crossing will be...
Toronto Cyclist Pet Peeves
#10 - SUV’s. #9 - No helmets. #8 - Other cyclists running reds, makes us all look bad. #7 - Not being seen. #6 - Dooring. #5 - Drivers who don’t get Road Sharing #4 - Pedestrian Actions. #3 - Drivers who right turn without signalling. #2 - Vehicle’s parked in bike lanes. #1 - Infrastructure.
via Reduce Injury, Collision and Death in Toronto
Florida youth pen arguments against distracted... →
“Fascinating. According to this BBC video, it takes 80 cyclists, biking flat out...”
– Biking Home — Sightline Daily
Atlanta's Road Diet - Quality of life improves for... →
Unlike some road rebuilds, this one didn’t widen the street for through traffic. Instead, where the road reaches downtown, the project narrowed it, making traffic more congested.
On purpose.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said it “furthers our city’s goals of making downtown Atlanta a better place to live, work and play” and “would make a significant contribution to...
Portland's Most Dangerous Intersections
A potential list of future case studies.
These intersections saw the most crashes involving pedestrians between 1996 and 2005:
S.E. 82nd at Powell: 19 W. Burnside at Fourth: 13 N. Interstate at Lombard: 11 S.E. 82nd at Foster: 11 S.E. 39th at Hawthorne: 10 S.E. 46th at Woodstock: 10 W. Burnside at Sixth: 9 S.E. 13th at Tacoma: 9 W. Burnside at Second: 8 W. Burnside at Third: 8 N.E. Failing at...
We Don't Have To Tolerate Auto Deaths →
“A 74-year-old woman was getting out of her car to put flowers on her daughter’s roadside memorial in Henrico, when a driver hit her pickup and killed her. … A driver killed an Arlington woman over the weekend … And a drunk Howard County teen killed his friend after veering off the road Sunday morning. (Post) … Car crashes killed 30 people in California over the weekend, including a driver who...
“The new, silver BMW that almost hit me while I was riding my bicycle near the...”
– Registering bicycles will not prevent any accidents | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/01/2009