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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 (20) ° 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: , ,

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: , , , , , , ,

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: , ,

Of Motorist Rage and the Free-Rider Bicyclist

The BBC published an interesting column yesterday about the psychology of motorist rage toward bicyclists. The upshot is that, apparently, motorists are upset most because bicyclists are free-riders in traffic: they do not pay for the system, and many do not follow the rules. Here’s the money quote: So now we can see why there is [...]

Posted 13 February 2013 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § ecology § news § policy § traffic ‡ Comments (10) ° 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: , , , , , ,

OMG! So Rude! (Not)

Not only is this video good for a chuckle, you might learn something about who or what actually holds up motorists: A Brief Adventure in Perspective from Keri Caffrey on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: bicycle video, cycling, traffic

Posted 07 December 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle video § traffic ‡ Comments (1) ° 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: , , ,

How To Drive Your Bicycle

Here’s how it works for bicycle drivers. You don’t need bicycle lanes to drive your bicycle safely in traffic. Check out these videos by CyclingSavvy. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle safety, bicycle video, cycling, traffic, traffic law

Posted 04 November 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle safety § bicycle video § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (24) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

What Could Go Wrong?

  Also on YouTube. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle infrastructure, bicycle safety, bicycle video, cycling, traffic

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: , , , , , , ,

I Freak People Out

What is it about a bicyclist stopped, and signaling a turn, at a 4-way stop sign that freaks out motorists? Well, I think it’s the fact that I’m driving my bicycle instead of gliding through the intersection as if  I own the whole damned road. That’s the behavior I see most of the time. In [...]

Posted 19 September 2012 † Andy Cline § traffic ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

There’s Something Happening Here

UPDATE: I have confirmed that the paint on Cherry east of Glenstone is intended to be a bicycle lane. The engineer I contacted said that the lane should have been painted 5.0 feet from the face of the curb and 3.0 feet from a pavement seam such as the edge of gutter. What it is ain’t exactly [...]

Posted 02 September 2012 † Andy Cline § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § traffic ‡ Comments (28) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Things Are Getting Worse

I believe we’ve entered an era in which things are going to get worse for bicyclists before they get better. The tectonic pressure to paint bicycle lanes has become so great that it no longer seems possible to even debate the merits or the claims of safety. Check out this article from Yes! magazine. Here’s a [...]

Posted 08 August 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle education § bicycle infrastructure § bicycle safety § policy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (29) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

On Why Randy Cohen Is Wrong

Randy Cohen, the former ethics columnist for The New York Times, is just as susceptible to ethical rationalization as the rest of us. Ethical rationalization occurs when you attempt to justify your questionable behavior with ethically fallacious (and often sanctimonious) argument. As a transportation bicyclist and a professor who teaches media ethics (meaning I know at least a little [...]

Posted 06 August 2012 † Andy Cline § advocacy § bicycle safety § policy § safety § traffic ‡ Comments (24) ° Also tagged: , , ,