This arguably isn't anything for VCs to get worked up about. The limit's violation, if any, of VC, isn't the 2,500 number. It's the fact that a permit is...
Not all large cycling events are marshalled. Every year, the "Pan Mass Challenge" sends more than 4,000 riders across most of the state. It is not a...
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Dec 4, 2005 11:45 am
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Yes! It might take something this drastic to illustrate the folly of their proposal. Jim G ... From: John Forester, November 30, 2005 10:33 The answer to the...
Hello y'all, ... events be limited to 2,500 riders. That is, to demand that the Colorado State Patrol apply the same limit to all events that put more than...
Schubley@...
Dec 6, 2005 9:58 am
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Hi The Warrington Cycle Campaign in the UK have a new report on cycle lanes (basically confirms what we already know) ...
The effect of non-racing cycling events upon other road traffic depends on how the event is run. Where there is a fixed starting time, with riders held back...
... Just as an example of that, Cycle North Carolina allows participants to start leaving camp any time after the sun comes up. Usually the town/city provides...
... I, too, was disappointed in their bad-bikelane/good-bikelane conclusion and agree that the whole business is absurd. But I still find value in studies...
bob.bayn@...
Dec 7, 2005 8:19 pm
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In the 80s I taught the original EC curriculum to high school students in a local club founded for that purpose. The club, chartered with Boy Scouts for...
... Oh and while I think of it merely referring to collision statistics is, in my view, highly disingenuous unless likely outcomes in terms of fatality and...
... What is your basis for the claim that there is no evidence that reducing overtaking clearance does not increase danger? I am aware specifically of an ...
A counter example is controversion of only a formal statement of universality, for all X, (a,b,c)' can be falsified by an X,(not a,b,c). Would that our...
... Forester can answer for himself... But I have never seen a study that attempted to relate this. It is taken for granted by those who have not yet lost the...
... Bicyclists don't like being passed close. ... The paper made no assumptions. You are though. ... Here's a paper that simply shows how a bike lane stripe...
In a message dated 12/8/2005 8:02:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, wpein@... writes: Here's a paper that simply shows how a bike lane stripe results in ...
CRKJLAW@...
Dec 9, 2005 10:14 am
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... I saw no one do that. The use of the term "sub-standard" in this study is my problem with it. It implies they are _not_ condemning all bikelanes, as they...
Wayne, Your statement that "Bicyclists don't like being passed close [sic]" is, at best, anecdotal, but more likely a reflection of personal preference. I do...
In a message dated 12/9/2005 6:23:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, kob 2@... writes: Since all bikelanes deserve condemning for all the reasons...
CRKJLAW@...
Dec 9, 2005 5:22 pm
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... I noticed the same thing. Somebody might conclude from this report that bike lane stripes reduce the amount of encroachment into opposing traffic. Is this...
... In ... compliance ... I wasn't discussing the bare concept: "standard". (I will discuss the nature of "standards" to this degree, however, for the purposes...
... Except that, surprise, they do exist all over the place. LAB Bicycle Friendly Carrboro NC is rife with bike lanes that are far narrower than textbook...
... I can see no evidence of this. In the UK, no passing zones are indicated by double centre lines I can't see those in this photograph. In any case UK law...
... 5 feet of pavement is the minimum for curb and gutter roads. But that can be 2ft of unusable gutter pan and 3 ft of pavement. 4 ft is the minimum pavement...
Shane, ... Obviously, it is my mistake. The fall of the tree shadows and the apparent solidity of the center stripe seen just to the right of the lorry gave me...
... Yes, that's a primary justification for bike lanes. And hey, according the the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, that should improve motor vehicle...
