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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: , , , , ,

I Like To Watch And Listen

Every now and then I like to go to YouTube and watch traffic crash videos. You’ll find plenty of them because many people in Russia (and a few other countries out that way) run dash cams — I assume for insurance reasons. The following video is typical: You can also find many videos showing pedestrians [...]

Posted 08 May 2013 † Andy Cline § bicycle safety § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (42) ° Also tagged: , ,

The Bizzaro World of Courtesy

Yes, you do live in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Submitted for your approval, a world where the people who operate large, dangerous machines — automobiles — are given every courtesy, and,  in their mishaps with people who prefer to walk or ride a bicycle, are given the benefit of the “doubt.” The street [...]

Posted 12 April 2013 † Andy Cline § ecology § safety § traffic § walking ‡ 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: , , , , , ,

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: , , , , ,

Don’t Be Mad At Me

I know nothing about psychology beyond the introductory class I took in college in the 1970s. That said, and given the discussion in my post yesterday about the psychology of motorist anger, I want to propose this: People, in general, do not like being the focus of anger. I believe, with nothing more than anecdotal [...]

Posted 14 February 2013 † Andy Cline § bicycle safety § ecology § traffic ‡ Comments (12) ° Also tagged: , ,

I Am Traffic Website is Live

Another step forward: I Am Traffic on the web. Go ahead — click it! Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle education, bicycle safety, cycling, i am traffic

Posted 22 January 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § news § traffic ‡ Comments (5) ° 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: , ,

Rude, Unethical, Etc. Revisited

Yikes! Be sure to pay close attention at 1:17 in this video. What you’ll see and what you’ll hear ought to blow your mind. It’s stunning. I suppose this could be a parody of clueless hipsters. I mean, how could anyone be so blind as to miss hypocrisy of this magnitude? For example, how can one edit [...]

Posted 16 November 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle safety § bicycle video § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (17) ° Also tagged: ,