Facilities and Realities
Following are numerous different articles, entries and links to happenings nationwide with respects to bicycles and their place on the streets. It's interesting that they've all cropped up recently. Higher gas? Greater ridership? Summer heat?
Jim G's take on SanFran cyclists and how they use the road.
Somebody else's take on the SanFran issue.
3-Speed Blog's bike lane pondering in MN and Bicycle Fixation's Safety Discussion.
ReflectorCollector's bike trail take in Roseville, MN.
The Blasphemous Bicycler's observation of the perils of muli-use paths.
Safety issues in the East Coast nirvana of Connecticut.
Velocipete's find of "Guerrilla Bike Lanes"in Toronto. This showed up on the local listserve as well.
Two Cities Two wheels has a good discussion of the stop sign thing.
A batch of reviews of the Chicago Lakefront path.
I found several posts via BikePortland about both Multi-use path issues (here via a link to a BostonGlobe article) and stop sign issues as well. Take a look and follow the links on both.
The Globe mention originally was posted on Streetsblog, a NY green living blog.
And finally an interesting article via TreeHugger about the cycling renacimiento found in Berlin, where city gov't has made major efforts to increase the bikeability of the city.
Several of these issues have been brought up recently on the Kycyclist listserve. Most around here are in favor of nothing- that is to say take your lane and ditch the dangerous painted bike lanes. I've spent some time on the Riverwalk recently and can attest to some tense moments like those mentioned in Boston. Locally, a local cyclist was hit by a car and killed while en route on our only bikeable bridge, the 2nd-street bridge downtown. It sounds like one of those "no winners" situations, with the cyclist hitting something and falling in the path of the auto. Some local cyclists are full of vitriol for the car, others a bit more moderate. If you were driving in the inside lane (of a 4-lane bridge) and a cyclist fell in front of your path, what would/could you do? The victim lived just a few blocks over from us. I've been on that bridge a few times. It has large, heavy metal joint plates that could easily, very easily, know a cyclist out of whack. Very unfortunate and not easily solved.
Much food for thought.
Jim G's take on SanFran cyclists and how they use the road.
Somebody else's take on the SanFran issue.
3-Speed Blog's bike lane pondering in MN and Bicycle Fixation's Safety Discussion.
ReflectorCollector's bike trail take in Roseville, MN.
The Blasphemous Bicycler's observation of the perils of muli-use paths.
Safety issues in the East Coast nirvana of Connecticut.
Velocipete's find of "Guerrilla Bike Lanes"in Toronto. This showed up on the local listserve as well.
Two Cities Two wheels has a good discussion of the stop sign thing.
A batch of reviews of the Chicago Lakefront path.
I found several posts via BikePortland about both Multi-use path issues (here via a link to a BostonGlobe article) and stop sign issues as well. Take a look and follow the links on both.
The Globe mention originally was posted on Streetsblog, a NY green living blog.
And finally an interesting article via TreeHugger about the cycling renacimiento found in Berlin, where city gov't has made major efforts to increase the bikeability of the city.
Several of these issues have been brought up recently on the Kycyclist listserve. Most around here are in favor of nothing- that is to say take your lane and ditch the dangerous painted bike lanes. I've spent some time on the Riverwalk recently and can attest to some tense moments like those mentioned in Boston. Locally, a local cyclist was hit by a car and killed while en route on our only bikeable bridge, the 2nd-street bridge downtown. It sounds like one of those "no winners" situations, with the cyclist hitting something and falling in the path of the auto. Some local cyclists are full of vitriol for the car, others a bit more moderate. If you were driving in the inside lane (of a 4-lane bridge) and a cyclist fell in front of your path, what would/could you do? The victim lived just a few blocks over from us. I've been on that bridge a few times. It has large, heavy metal joint plates that could easily, very easily, know a cyclist out of whack. Very unfortunate and not easily solved.
Much food for thought.
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