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Use Lights In Low Light

The headline is good advice (it’s also the law). Anyway, here’s a video of my trip downtown yesterday morning for coffee and a bagel: Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle equipment, bicycle safety, cycling

Posted 02 February 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle equipment § bicycle safety ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Legislative Alert From MoBikeFed

The following is a legislative alert from Brent Hugh, executive director of the Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation: We aren’t exaggerating when we say this ask has never been more urgent. Click this link to contact your member of Congress in support of bicycling and walking: http://support.railstotrails.org/site/R?i=MU6Bn3Xx8UZZlnZ9Tmaq9w Thursday, February 2nd, the Transportation Infrastructure committee in the U.S. [...]

Posted 01 February 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § news § policy ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Glamorous Life of an Editor

Yes, you can live the dream! All you have to do is click this link: LINK. Doing so will take you to the latest copy of our new edition of Drive Less, Live More, our local bicycling booklet (see the first edition here). Only we’ll be calling it something else. The new title may be [...]

Posted 31 January 2012 † Andy Cline § news ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

Carbon Trace Update

Stuff you should know: Now that I have a GoPro Hero, I need to put it to use. Be watching for some short videos about specific traffic conditions. I may throw a long one in there every now and then, too At the last STAR Team meeting we discussed our 2011 progress toward making Springfield [...]

Posted 24 January 2012 † Andy Cline § news ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Way Totally Cool

So I’ve been grousing for more than a year now that Springfield needs a women-oriented bicycle blog and/or cycle chic blog. In my media ethics class the other day I discovered that a student of mine has started such a blog and is trying to get a causal riding club going for women. Check out WhimCycle. Technorati [...]

Posted 20 January 2012 † Andy Cline § ecology § news ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

STAR Team Meeting This Evening

The STAR Team meets this evening — the kick-off to a great 2012! I just learned the meeting place has changed to the new offices of the Ozarks Transportation Organization at 205 Park Central East #202. That’s on the Square downtown. Meeting time is 5:30. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, cycling

Posted 18 January 2012 † Andy Cline § news ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Shunted to the Shoulders

Here’s a follow-up to my previous video of bicycle infrastructure in suburban Wilmington, Delaware. What you will see is painted shoulders with bicycle lane markings. But simply putting lane markings on a shoulder does not create a proper bicycle lane. These lanes demonstrate a complete lack of understanding about how to handle intersections.  These lanes [...]

Posted 08 January 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § policy § safety ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Riding Into The New Year

My wife bought me the GoPro Hero for my birthday (available in Springfield at A&B Cycle) . I used it to make the following (interminably long) video yesterday of some bicycle lanes in suburban Wilmington, Delaware. I’m here visiting family. I grew up riding the streets you’ll see in the video. So what you have [...]

Posted 01 January 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § ecology ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , ,

Old-Fashioned Service

Here’s an idea for Springfield’s bicycle shops that I found in Bentonville, Arkansas. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle infrastructure

Posted 27 December 2011 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: ,

Bieker Forum Discusses Bicycling

City Councilman Tom Beiker held a public forum at The Hub yesterday — first in a series of planned public discussions. The main topic was bicycling and helping make Springfield a bicycle-friendly community. I was unable to attend the meeting. The News-Leader published an article today. It’s difficult to tell how much talk there was [...]

Posted 07 December 2011 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Moving Forward With Bicycle Facilities

Last year I reported here, based on a conversation at a STAR Team meeting, that the city was uninterested in painting more bicycle lanes. With the creation of new lanes on Division and Benton and  the discussion at night’s STAR Team meeting, it has became clear to me that painting more bicycle lanes is in [...]

Posted 17 November 2011 † Andy Cline § bicycle education § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § ecology § news § policy § safety ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How To Snaggle Up An Intersection

Disclaimer: Nothing I have written in this post should be interpreted as walking back the idea that bicyclists should follow the rules of the road. This seems to me to be a fact: Unpredictable behavior by bicyclists seems to be what the average motorist expects, i.e. bicyclist behavior is predictable in its unpredictableness. Predictable behavior, [...]

Posted 17 November 2011 † Andy Cline § bicycle safety § safety ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

Excellent Bicycling Video Updated

Keri Caffrey, of Commute Orlando and CyclingSavvy, has updated her excellent video Bicycling in Traffic is a Dance You Must Lead. Something to note: You are NOT watching “hardened” cyclists or “road warriors” or “adrenaline junkies” who brave the dangers of traffic. Bicycling in traffic is safe (compared to a lot of other dangerous things [...]

Posted 26 October 2011 † Andy Cline § bicycle education § bicycle safety § cyclingsavvy § ecology ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Say Cheese!

My current project for the STAR Team is to update our Drive Less, Live More booklet. Changes in the works include: New title — It will fit with our new active transportation PR campaign. I can’t give you details yet. But stay tuned. New copy — I’m not doing a complete re-write. But I am [...]

Posted 24 October 2011 † Andy Cline § bicycle education § ecology § news ‡ Comments (8) °

Driving the Suburbs

In my quest to discover just how much nonsense Carbon Trace readers will put up with, here’s another scintillating bicycling video — 37 minutes of driving 4-lane arterials in the Springfield suburbs. Does it get any better than that? I think not. Roads traveled: National, Sunshine, Campbell, and Sunset. My thanks to Christopher McNeese of A&B Cycles [...]

Posted 14 October 2011 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (9) ° Tagged: , ,