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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: , , , , ,

Enjoy The Death Zone

Bicycle infrastructure that violates the rules of safe movement is unsafe by definition. It doesn’t matter how much pretty green paint or fancy yellow reflectors you use. Take a look this from Boston University: Never mind for a moment that what we see here is a door-zone bicycle lane. Take a look at that green [...]

Posted 26 April 2013 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (27) ° 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: , , , , , ,

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: , , , , ,

Of Goals and Point of View

Long-time Carbon Trace reader Robert (also a professional bicycle advocate and educator) asked this question in the comments to my post on the recent deadly right-hook crash in Boston: Do you think that bicycle facilities can be designed in such a way as to eliminate the dangers and delays? My short answer: No. He was [...]

Posted 08 December 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § cyclingsavvy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (88) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Where The Danger Is

So you’re riding along in bicycle lane thinking you’re safe because, well, isn’t that what we’re led to believe? Isn’t that why bicycle lanes are painted in the first place? They are not painted to solve any traffic problem that exists, i.e. help the orderly and safe flow of traffic according the well-establish rules of [...]

Posted 06 December 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle crash § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § news § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (25) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Door-Zone Crash on Boonville

A bicyclist riding in the bicycle lane on Boonville — a door-zone lane — was hit by a car door last night and seriously injured. My source is a member of the STAR Team. The bicyclist is a friend of his. I have no further details. I’m looking into it. UPDATE: The bicyclist did not strike the [...]

Posted 01 December 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle crash § bicycle safety § policy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (38) ° Also tagged: , ,

What Could Go Wrong?

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Posted 02 November 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle education § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § bicycle video § policy § traffic ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Is It Rude Or Worse?

It’s been recently suggested in the Bicycle Friendly Springfield group on Facebook that a vehicle driver (e.g. a bicyclist) controlling the lane and traveling about 10 mph on a 2-lane road with a 35-mph limit and non-sharable width (<14 feet) is being “rude, arguably unethical, and possibly sociopathic.” Let’s examine this assertion. The system of traffic works [...]

Posted 25 October 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § cyclingsavvy § ecology § policy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (44) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Smartly Going

The STAR Team will begin promoting the city bus system as part of the committee’s Let’s Go Smart campaign. That was welcome news from yesterday’s meeting. More on this as it develops… The Ozarks Transportation Organization has released its 2012 implementation report for its bike/ped plan. Lots of interesting progress. I’ll link to the .pdf [...]

Posted 20 September 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § news § policy § transit ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Irony

So, yeah, wrap your head around this: If novices will only ride if we paint lanes because they feel safe in lanes, are we not, then, defeating the purpose by correctly ending the lanes before the intersections and indicating central travel lane positioning with sharrows? Novices won’t command the street because they “need” a bicycle [...]

Posted 11 September 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § safety ‡ Comments (29) ° Also tagged: , ,

Bicycle Lanes: Gotta Love Close Passes

What started as documenting another new bicycle lane turned into a textbook example of motorist behavior. Take a look… How did you like the squeeze play toward the end — entirely caused by the bicycle lane. If I had been controlling the lane, the motorist behind me would have waited until it was safe to [...]

Posted 10 September 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § safety ‡ Comments (15) ° Also tagged: , , ,