... These statements are really in that book? Good grief, I read the book about 4 years ago but I didn't even remember reading them. Pretty outrageous. I...
Still, all that stuff is just perceptual, really nothing to do with the concrete techniques of traffic-safe cycling. I read a little disagreement in a few very...
Bob Shanteau, Thanks for posting the APBP discussion about the conflict between bicyclists & turning trucks. You may quote or re-post my remarks as you see...
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Nov 1, 2008 1:21 pm
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Ryan, The art/science analysis is interesting, but I see a lot of art and science in both Forester and Hurst. I do agree there are perceptual differences, but...
... cycletrack network project in the Condesa neighborhood. ... space of the former rail to Cuernavaca (project that was constructed in 2005, by the way). ... ...
I have never read Hurst's book, but Serge's quotations from it are most illuminating to me. No, not illuminating, but the opposite, hide in obscurity. "Some...
... rates ... traffic can ... sentence and ... that ... for the ... And yet, the League of American Bicyclists magazine published a very favorable review of...
I am of course looking at the issue from an European point of view, but I do not share Forrester's worry that we are going to get stripped of our right to use...
... Of course its not going to happen. It's already happened. It happened in Ireland just a few years ago, and in Spain a bit before that. I think Britain is...
I have just reviewed a paper published by supporters of the League of American Bicyclists, to wit: Bikes Belong and Rails to Trails. It is titled Active...
I have a rather different view than does Poteit, who says that he looks at cycling issues from an European point of view. Poteit writes that cyclists will not...
No attachment (or at least none that made it past Yahoo's constraints. If it won't attached, I'd love a copy directly. pmsummer@... I've always thought...
... I had an interesting conversation with a young lady, Mona, on a bike path yesterday. She was stopped and had some questions about directions, interested...
... the concrete techniques of traffic-safe cycling. I read a little disagreement in a few very minor details, but really mostly the same instruction in his...
Both Forrester and Parker are right and I was wrong on the prohibition point: it has already happened. In fact, in Spain bike lanes use is supposed to be...
I found it online here: http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/documents/whatwedo/atfa/ATFA_20081020.pdf For future reference, files can't be attached to...
Jeremy says that by law cyclists in Ireland and in Spain have been stripped of their right to use the roadway, but Txarli says it hasn't happened in Spain....
... That describes the (theoretical) situation in Spain. Re-reading this thread, I feel confirmed that the gist of my analysis was right, only I didn't get my...
You note that bike lane use is compulsory in Spain, but lightly enforced, so it's convenient enough to ignore that legal requirement. An American would ask:...
... Situation still to be tested, as far as I know. The issue has recently been brought up by one of our guys in one of the most rabid segregationist lists in...
I wrote ""Wherever bikeways exist, cyclists are prohibited from using the roadway as drivers of vehicles." I did not mean that because there are a few bikeways...
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Nov 3, 2008 8:29 am
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... I was wondering when you were going to take a jab at rail transit. Funny the similarities of the "toy transit" projects and expensive bikeway projects. At...
... I would demand the following of officials of a thought-experiment bicyclist advocacy organization I support: while speaking or acting as part of this...
John's paper would be unacceptable to me as something that would come from a bicyclist advocacy organization I support. This paper would need to limit and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqpNqoumVcA Saw a link to this 1969 bicycle safety video in a blog. Made by the Inglewood, CA school district and PD. They...
... Not me. Here is one mass transit project I want all bicyclist advocacy organizations to oppose--street cars on rails. I do not want to share the lane...
Hi all, Serge, Thank you for describing your encounter with Mona, the woman who appeared to be traffic aware, and capable of learning traffic skills, but...