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Where Can (Should) You Ride?

Here’s what Missouri law states (307.190): Every person operating a bicycle or motorized bicycle at less than the posted speed or slower than the flow of traffic upon a street or highway shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as safe, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one [...]

Posted 09 June 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle culture § bicycle safety § i am traffic § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (16) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Of Advocacy and Stasis

To follow up on yesterday’s post, I want to address the whole discussion thing. I concluded my post with a short list suggesting that there are certain types of bicyclists that I’m willing to discuss advocacy with and certain types that, well, not so much. Now’s a good time to discuss stasis theory. Before one [...]

Posted 15 May 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle culture § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § ecology § safety ‡ Comments (49) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Of Perception, Reality, and Desire

Here are two things you should go read right now: If you want to stop having this debate… Cyclists Aren’t ‘Special,’ And They Shouldn’t Play By their Own Rules I’m not going to comment directly on these except to say that each is important in its own way. Instead, I want to use these as [...]

Posted 14 May 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle culture § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § ecology § i am traffic § policy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (22) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Bike To Everywhere Decade

Next week is Bike to Work Week in Springfield. Or, just another week. You see, I’m participating in, and about to complete, Bike to Everywhere Decade. I seriously do not mean to criticize Bike to Work Week or brag about what I do. It’s a good program. But I do have a minor gripe that’s [...]

Posted 07 May 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle culture § ecology § news ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Traffic 101 Class Offered This June

League Cycling Instructor David Hutchison is offering the Traffic 101 course on 22 June in Springfield. Hutchison is a traffic engineer with the City of Springfield and a long-time bicycle commuter. I have taken both the League course with Hutchison and the CyclingSavvy course with Karen Karabell in St. Louis (I am also a CyclingSavvy Instructor). I [...]

Posted 06 May 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § cyclingsavvy ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Wait. What? Normal People On Bicycles?

OK, take a look at this picture: That’s Cody, Ginger, and their son. I just got an e-mail from Cody telling me he and his family have moved to Springfield. They have a bicycle blog called Cycle Like a Stringer. Good stuff! Check it out. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle culture, cycling, Springfield Missouri

Posted 23 April 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § announcement § bicycle culture ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: , ,

Vote ‘Yes’ For Capital Improvements Tax

Tomorrow is election day, and among the chances you have to make Springfield a better place to live is renewing the 1/4-cent Capital Improvements Sales Tax. Please vote “Yes.” This tax pays for numerous infrastructure improvements including projects that benefit pedestrians and bicyclists. You may have noticed sharrows appearing on the streets of the city’s bicycle [...]

Posted 01 April 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § policy § safety ‡ Comments (24) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

On The Showing Of Photos

What does it mean to show a photograph of a poorly-designed bicycle lane? Recent chatter from the lane-painting wing of bicycle-advocacy-land has taken the publishing of such images to task for the oft-imagined sin of over-generalizing about all bicycle infrastructure. For a good example of this, just read my post from yesterday. Let’s re-visit a [...]

Posted 29 March 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § cyclingsavvy § policy § safety ‡ Comments (38) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

More Stories We Tell About Bicycling

Here is the response (click for large image): And here is the video: Savvy Cyclist — Bill Edmonds from Keri Caffrey on Vimeo. Yep. We’re a bunch of nefarious traffic cyclists out to stop progress for everyone. Because, yeah, no one would ever mislead you about bicycle infrastructure. Right? Something New On Cherry from acline [...]

Posted 28 March 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § cyclingsavvy § i am traffic § policy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Quotes We Narrate By

Regarding my earlier post today and the beginning of Keri Caffrey’s series entitled The Stories We Tell, here are the essential plots of two very different narratives of bicycling in the United States today: The Stories of the Unsuccessful Bicyclist I’m a second class citizen. I’m at the mercy of others. Most motorists are careless [...]

Posted 19 March 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § bicycle safety § ecology § i am traffic § traffic ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , ,

On Narrative and Reality

Long-time Carbon Trace readers know that I occasionally enjoy mixing my academic passion for rhetoric with my transportation passion for bicycling. This is not a stretch because, as with most academic disciplines, the whole point is to understand the world — all of it — in terms of a particular subject, e.g. politics, history, or [...]

Posted 19 March 2013 † Andy Cline § bicycle education § i am traffic § traffic ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , ,

Culture, Daydreams, and Hypothesis

I drove my bicycle to the grocery this morning. That is a very odd statement. The statement is odd because I’m admitting doing something out of the cultural norm in the United States. It is also odd because I am deliberately appropriating language used and understood by motorists to refer to what they do with [...]

Posted 12 March 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § cyclingsavvy § ecology § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (40) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

I Am Traffic: Wrap-Up

The fine group of people pictured here will begin the work of creating a governing structure for the tentatively-titled bicycle education organization I Am Traffic. Once that work is done, we will form a governing body typical for any non-profit organization, including the usual slate of officers and a Board of Directors. I was greatly [...]

Posted 26 February 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § cyclingsavvy § i am traffic ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , ,

I Am Traffic: Hard Work

The work that goes into starting a new national organization is much like sausage making We’re making sausage here in Orlando today was we hammer out the structure and governance for I Am Traffic. This morning we’re working on vision and mission statements and core values. This afternoon, we’ll decide how to govern I Am [...]

Posted 24 February 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

I Am Traffic: The Beginning

8:50 a.m.: We are 10 minutes away from the beginning or the creation of a new national bicycle education program. I’m in Orlando for the I Am Traffic bicycle education colloquium. I’ll be posting updates on this post through the weekend. 10:00 a.m.: Keri Caffrey’s opening remarks entitled Achieving A Vision. 10:05 a.m.: Dan Gutierrez [...]

Posted 23 February 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,