... I've toured a few miles on highways with rumble strips, and generally don't mind having them on the road if "done right" such as this stretch of US 395 in...
Perhaps better than rumble strips would be to have a trench cut in the side of the road, with sharp points mounted in it and covered with a soft rubber - ...
... TF: Thick-rubber-coated spike, thin-rubber-coated spike or chocolate- coated spike; I'm sure there are ISTEA-pork careers to be made in figuring out a...
Hi Ken, I think he is fighting a losing battle with AK DOT. The reality here is that most people live or stay in Anchorage. There are only 2 roads that go out...
... BTW Rt1 from Portland to Kittery is a roadway that no one should ever consider placing rumble strips on. If that is the type road they are considering...
From the Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2007 Building a better bike lane: Bike-friendly cities in Europe are launching a new attack on car culture. Can the U.S....
Shared Space ... relies on the principle that road users' behaviour is more likely to be affected by the street environment and design than by the traditional...
This is a good example of The Lucifer Effect (http://www.lucifereffect.com/) that occurs when otherwise ordinary people get behind the wheel of a car and is...
... It shows that people are NOT ready for bicyclists on the road. It happens here in somewhat not so beautiful Mentor, Ohio where automobile owners have to...
... The detailed report I read indicated to me this was not an otherwise ordinary person. This was a person already on leave from their job due to some mental...
It shows nothing of the kind. Tierman might have assaulted Sokol even if he had been driving a car. Tierman might have been set off by Sokol's stopping for a...
... I've lost track of how many cagers have chased me, thrown things at me, got of their cars and tried to assault me, etc. in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. ...
... I've kept careful track here in Cache Valley: chased - 0 thrown at - 0 attempted assault - 0 also close passes - 0 blaring horns - 0 ... That never works...
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May 10, 2007 11:28 pm
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... I can't imagine doing something like that. John A. Ardelli http://pedalingprince.blogspot.com...
... got of their cars and tried to assault me, etc. in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. It's pretty easy to trigger such actions. Just take a lane and wait (not ...
... Oh that's a bunch of bullshit. Foresters dummies almost exclusively live in affluent white sunbelt suburbs and bike in the daylight (on the days their ...
... I would like to know how we can have this Utopia of complete seperation of Cyclestrians from normal Traffic. all the "Bike paths I know about must cross...
... I agree, though I don't necessarily agree that one needs FORMAL INSTRUCTION to become a good vehicular cyclist. Granted, formal instructions allows one to...
... Since I live in a community with something like 50,000 bovine, I suspect I have a pretty good idea what "a bunch of bullshit" really is. The cattle yards...
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May 12, 2007 3:47 am
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Never having been formally trained in typing, I hope that my post can be understood by those of you who have such training. As far as cycling goes, I have no...
... TF: And the smell of it is far better too than that which emanates from places filled with people who have never _filled_ a honey wagon before, such as the...
... but ... PRACTICE, ... TF: The reputation of John Forester's Effective Cycling program is (or at least was until cyclist-inferiority advocates started...
... This was posted by someone at Velo Cape Breton. I know that one of our group here has been having ankle trouble too and, while they don't use clipless...