I was just reading that on the Cycling News website: <http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bicycle-safety-expert-killed-in-collision-with-car-in-north-carolina> ...
Hi all, I am not a fan of everything Enrique Peñalosa says, but I think his speech had some very appealing arguments (intertwined with his B.S. about how...
I consider the two following items from Streetsblog quoting from a speech by Penalosa. "He stated what is obvious, but what seems to rarely be acknowledged by ...
People drive and travel in cars, don't they? What is it about cars that make their drivers bully pedestrians and bicyclists? Is it a tyranny of speed and size?...
I bicycle around the trolley tracks in Philadelphia frequently. Because of this I'm very aware of them. On the narrower streets or streets with parking to the...
... Count me in among the outnumbered ones. Eliminating street hazards (tram rails or other kind) is good both for "competent" and "incompetent" cyclists. Just...
Schubley@... wrote: "A lot of people don't think very far ahead, and simply lack the ability to plan a transition from in between tracks to outside of the...
I see, from John S's discussion below, that the safety of streets has to be evaluated on the basis of people who: Don't think ahead Can't plan to cross tracks...
Hi all, I realize I'm outnumbered on this, but I thought I'd 'splain my reasoning anyway. The question is: can the street in the Toronto video, or other, ...
"The narrator gives no sign that she's hard core paint and path. She appears to be on board with getting cyclists to assume responsibility for their own...
In the San Francisco area I cycled a lot on streets with streetcar tracks, and others with railroad tracks, but I don't remember regularly using any as narrow...
Looks like NW Lovejoy here in the P. It has a slight downgrade, maybe 1-2%, substandard DZBL crammed between streetcar tracks. At one point the BL takes you up...
... Why not? There are several streets in San Francisco where the tracks look like this, leaving the choice of crowding parked cars, crowding the yellow line,...
... Oh, yes they can. Just ride where the tram goes. I've done it a million times and never delayed a tram, cause on streets like that trams have plenty stops...
Hi all, Let's not overreact to the Toronto video. The video shows a bad mistake -- riding in the door zone on a street where you can't ride out of the door...
... As far as i understood, the truck turned left across the tram tracks and traffic lane into a stationary cyclist on the bikelane. It was a T-intersection...
That's the way practically everybody does in Helsinki; sharing a gap between a tram and the doorzone(or curb) so small a gap that I don't even acknowledge it a...
In their paradigm motorists are responsible for never hitting bicyclists, no matter what bicyclists are doing. That's why they focus on developing blind spot...
... Gee, door zone, trolley tracks and flowers all at the same time: <http://rmshant.googlepages.com/Yvonne.jpg> And although she talks about cyclists having...
I suppose this means if someone can speak clearly, anyone can be an expert on bicycling safety. You are quite correct, Keri, the scariest thing practically...
This video contains the scariest thing I've ever seen someone do in a "bike safety" video. You'll know what I mean. http://www.thestar.com/videozone/638869 If...
... I loved it so much, I wrote some ad copy for them: Make your own door zone bike lane! Don’t wait for incompetent facility design to direct you too close...
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/zebra-bicycle-path-devider.php?dcitc=th_rss_cars but its ok, its recycled materials... Includes a reference to the ...
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