Debate intensifies over bike-ped issues
Read More: http://newurbannetwork.com/article/d...d-issues-15046 Quote:
http://newurbannetwork.com/sites/def...idth/IMG_1.jpg |
|
How to become a cycling 'ambassador'
5 August 2011 By Matt Seaton Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...ing-ambassador Quote:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...r-view-003.jpg |
@M II A II R II K :
Thank you for posting the DC bikeshare video. Capital Bikeshare has been a tremendous success in the District. As part of the latest expansion, our neighborhood (Glover Park) is getting another station. One of the many benefits of the bikeshare program is that it is a kind of 'gateway drug' for bicycling. People start out trying the Capital Bikeshare a couple of times and realizing that biking is a great way to commute and get their own bicycles. |
Bike traffic triples on Laurier Avenue since bike lanes opened
Read More: http://cycle.ottawacitizen.com/featu...e-lanes-opened Quote:
http://cycle.ottawacitizen.com/wp-co...ne-450x300.jpg |
Businesses may complain, but they have yet to produce hard evidence that they have suffered as a result of segregated cycling areas
Read More: http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/...578/story.html Quote:
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/...?size=620x400s |
^ It's worth noting that the photo featured in the above post is the 'before' condition prior to the installation of a separated cycle track. What is pictured is Burrard Street en route to the Burrard Street Bridge. In 2009 separated bicycle lanes were added to the Burrard Street Bridge in lieu of a vehicle travel lane and the limitation of pedestrians to the sidewalk on the west side of the bridge deck. This was not the preferred arrangement but it has proven to be exceptionally popular with just a touch over 1 million trips during its first year of the new configuration and well over a million in year two. It's now permanent. The Burrard Street bicycle lane pictured above was the south-bound route to the bridge while the one way painted lane on Hornby Street, one block to the east, is the north-bound half of the couplet. It was along Hornby Street that a bidirectional separated cycle track was installed as a pilot project to connect Burrard Street Bridge with a route through the downtown core and CBD with a connection to the Dunsmuir Street separated cycle track.
Here is what the Hornby Street's cycle track looks like: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/554...eorgiamay1.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 12th 2011. And here's a shot of the Dunsmuir Street cycle track: http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8...22011p1240.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 12th 2011. Here's a shot of the cycle track on the Burrard Street bridge. Utilitarian but tremendously effective. http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/318...cycletrack.jpg http://creativecommons.org/images/pu...merights20.png Taken by SFUVancouver, May 13th 2011. |
Judge Rejects Groups’ Effort to Remove Bike Lane
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/ny...d.html?_r=1&hp Quote:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...BIKE-popup.jpg |
Chinese bike-sharing dwarfs US and European programs
Read More: http://newurbannetwork.com/video/151...opean-programs Quote:
|
Traffic Fines to Fund Biking Programs in Brazil
August 18, 2011 By Itir Sonuparlak Read More: http://thecityfix.com/blog/traffic-f...ams-in-brazil/ Quote:
http://thecityfix.com/files/2011/08/Brazil-Bike.jpg |
A New Breed of Lawyers Focuses on Bicyclists’ Rights
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/ny...ts-rights.html Quote:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...ticleLarge.jpg |
Tax Bikes for Better Bike Infrastructure?
Read More: http://straightouttasuburbia.blogspo...tter-bike.html Quote:
|
if you tax bikes for better bike infrastructure, wont that cause the inverse effect?? That is, make people drop their bikes and use cars???
its idiotic, like taxing people on foot to create better sidewalks! Its obvious that people will preffer cars if walking and pedalling are taxed! |
The British Cycling Economy
Read More: http://thecityfix.com/blog/new-repor...cling-economy/ PDF Report: http://corporate.sky.com/documents/p...ycling_economy Quote:
|
Riding out of a recession: Bicycle commuters can power the economy
Read More: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/in...sion_bicy.html Quote:
|
Quote:
|
California bill would ban cellphone use while bicycling
Read More: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ing/50139838/1 Quote:
|
Anyone reading any screen or typing on any device while on wheels deserves a baseball bat to the knees. Or whatever injury they sustain.
|
Even with handsfree devices, the use of an MP3 player in both ears could hinder one's hearing whilst riding which would be dangerous also.
|
Quote:
"Never for nothing, And the kicks for a fee..." One always likes to think that he or she is clever because her or she is taking advantage of facilites someone else is paying for. So, regardless of the idealism of the bicycle crowd, in the big cities at least, bicycle riders need to pay for at least some of the costs of operating (including policing) and constructing the dedicated facilities they demand. Likewise, bicyclists need to share the cost liabilities that arise as the result of pedestrian-bike, and, bicycle-vehicle acccidents. Riding a bicycle does not render a rider immune from the possible consequences of his or her actions. For example: is a bicyclist liable for ANY of the damages incurred by a third party resulting from an emergency maneuver a car driver had to make to avoid hitting that bicyclist? Idealism aside, there is "no such thing, as a free lunch." |
All times are GMT. The time now is 5:01 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.