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Honk Report

This morning’s honk report is a bit different. I walked to work again today. I was honked at in a crosswalk while legally crossing with the light in my favor.
I walk north on Fremont to Grand. From there, I go left on Grand and cross National. My building is on the corner of Grand and [...]

Posted 26 January 2010 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (12) ° Also tagged: ,

Rock & Roll

So, does rock & roll distract drivers? Take a look. This guy is parked!

Bummer…

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Posted 19 January 2010 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Bad Driving

An interesting report from the UK has this to say about the cause of bicycle crashes with cars resulting in injury and death:
With adult cyclists, police found the driver solely responsible in about 60%-75% of all cases, and riders solely at fault 17%-25% of the time.
The cyclists’ lobby group CTC said the report showed that [...]

Posted 15 December 2009 † Andy Cline § bicycle safety § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Cell Phones and Driver Distraction

The New York Times today published a major article on the socio-political history of the marketing of cell phones for use by car drivers. I found this part particularly interesting:
Long before cellphones became common, industry pioneers were aware of the risks of multitasking behind the wheel. Their hunches have been validated by many scientific studies [...]

Posted 07 December 2009 † Andy Cline § bicycle safety § ecology § news ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Of Accidents and Forgiveness

I’m inspired by the story on the front page of the Springfield News-Leader today. The man who hit a teenage pedestrian in September will face charges for careless and imprudent driving for going 55 in a 40 mph zone. The police say his speed caused the crash that nearly killed Kimberly Armstrong.
The inspiring part is [...]

Posted 02 December 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § news ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

Mindlessness Behind the Wheel

I recently mentioned the Dangerous By Design report and our own crash stats here in Springfield. While were not suffering to the same extent as Florida, we are suffering (here, here, here).
Keri Caffrey, of Commute Orlando, updated her Facebook page today with a link to the Time article above and this message:
I think the heart [...]

Posted 01 December 2009 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology § news ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Darkness at Rush Hour

It was a dark and drizzly afternoon.
I left for the  STAR Team meeting at about 5 p.m. The meeting spot is slightly less than 3 miles from my house along residential and city streets — streets that were now filled with rush-hour traffic.
The drizzle made the streets slick and cut visibility because it hung there [...]

Posted 19 November 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Ye Olde Honk Report

I really enjoy bicycling in Springfield. We have so many good things going for our community, among them: a grid street pattern, flat terrain, a bicycle route system, and downtown streets that are mostly narrow with low speed limits.
Now add the progress the STAR Team of Ozark Greenways has made recently and we have the [...]

Posted 12 November 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged:

The Streets of NYC

Don’t turn the sound up too much. The beeped language will blow your ears out.

What accounts for this? Are these simply two loathsome, offensive brutes who are unable to control themselves? What role does traffic play in this?

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Posted 06 October 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § news ‡ Comments (14) ° Also tagged: , ,

Talented Truckers

Here’s a talent that the trucking industry wants you to believe truckers possess: The ability to safely drive a big rig while working on a computer.
This would be hysterically funny — a real knee-slapper — if it weren’t for the fact that a trucker’s wipe out on the highway has the potential to kill many [...]

Posted 28 September 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged:

Honk Report

I just got honked at. The last honk was 16 August. So this is a fairly rare event for me.
Today’s honk (just 15 minutes ago) occurred on Cherry St. where it runs along the north edge of the MSU campus. On one side of the road is dormitory parking and on the other side of [...]

Posted 22 September 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: ,

How Important Are Clean Teeth

Here’s a new one: I was the passenger in a pick-up truck heading to Branson, Missouri yesterday. We stopped on our way out of town to get a couple hamburgers for the road — it being past lunch time and we being hungry.
Now the driver, who shall remain nameless, has recently had much expensive work [...]

Posted 12 September 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

Changing Hearts and Minds?

Do safe-driving PSAs work (i.e. change hearts and minds)?
Following my posting of a new and controversial British PSA yesterday, Keri Caffrey posts a few more at Commute Orlando and asks some good questions:
What kind of message breaks through the Culture of Speed to actually change a viewer’s behavior? Do graphic messages have unintended consequences? Do [...]

Posted 26 August 2009 † Andy Cline § advocacy § ecology ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , ,

No Accident

This British PSA about texting and driving is getting a lot of attention.

This does not portray a traffic accident. It is a crash. It is the predictable result of stupid and stunningly self-centered behavior.
And, as is all too often the case, the self-centered miscreant that caused the crash lives and others die.
This Friday a law [...]

Posted 25 August 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology § news § policy ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Variables

“In traffic we find the very essence of fallibility. It’s most important feature, if not its most prominent, is the basic human mistake….” — Robert Hurst
Imagine for a moment a Venn diagram with a circle marked “mistakes.” And floating nearby is another circle marked “inattention.” And another one marked “reckless.” I imagine these concepts contained [...]

Posted 06 August 2009 † Andy Cline § ecology ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , ,