Category: Biking Elsewhere

I found it interesting that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) "amendment would have kept TE funds from being used for landscaping, historic preservation, museums and welcome centers and other currently eligible uses he characterized as “low-priority.”
"If the overall funding level stayed the same and the number of uses competing for that funding was reduced, McCain’s amendment could potentially mean more money for bike/ped projects"
But it has been tabled and is essentially dead.
Personally I see that as good news on what direction things are going but a lot of people like the other uses so if you want to know more about that see: https://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/10/19/transportation-enhancements-beats-back-another-assault/

Interesting points:

• Child murder
• Cars kill people, cites and the environment
• Car free Sundays showed people what the streets were like before the car took over.

Read more: https://hembrow.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-dutch-got-their-cycling.html

[B’ Spokes: My thoughts on reading this are: Will Delaware fall into the same traps that Maryland has or will they avoid them? Trails are great but when Maryland starts getting 1.5 mile trails in the middle of nowhere, I really have to question are they fulling their mission? Delaware by listing viable projects (vs MD just saying it wants “network of bicycle and pedestrian trails” but has no real plan backed by funding to do so) along with getting some funding concessions may very well leapfrog Maryland.]

by James Wilson

You know with Maryland having a bit of the East Coast Greenway you would think there would be more attention to completing that then there is. At least some attention on a bike crossing the Susquehanna River. But money is not directed to where needed or where it will make the nicest trail but simply who is will to pay the high 50% local match. Meanwhile federal grant money remains unspent.
Orlando Sentinel story here: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-trails-economic-impact-20111017,0,3028584.story

from Commute by Bike by Ted Johnson

Filmmaker and anti-helmet Fashionista extraordinaire, Mikael Colville-Andersen, dug up this Depression-era cartoon, encouraging people to buy, buy, buy, as a way of stimulating the American economy with more “circulating dollars.”

That cartoon is truer now than it was when it was originally published.

The irony is that just before the Great Depression, only about half of American families owned automobiles. The New Deal, which helped to stimulate the economy into recovery, provided ten times more funding for roads than for public transit. Government policy helped to cement the psychological link between national prosperity and car ownership.

At the time, the real encouragement was to buy cars, among other consumer products. The bicycle in this cartoon was only a metaphor.

I don’t think it’s a metaphor anymore.

Continue reading “Buy-Cycle Back to Prosperity”

Unbelievable, with Baltimore objecting to bike lanes maybe this is the next step, outlaw bikes and pedestrians outright. Think about it, no one can be seen out in public without a car.
https://www.care2.com/causes/city-seeks-to-outlaw-bicyclists-and-pedestrians.html

Photo by Bsivad

Read more: https://dcist.com/2011/10/the_way_we_were_a_bicyclers_paradis.php

Cronk, 45, gets more serious when talking about the need for bicyclists and motorists to be better educated about one another, and serious about the car that pulled in front of her. Police have not found the driver. Cronk assumes the case will not be solved.

https://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home2/52721963-183/cronk-car-driver-lake.html.csp

from How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt

My latest Slate column explores the concept of “rolling speed harmonization” on a Colorado highway.

As one report describes it, speed harmonization “holds that by encouraging speed compliance and reducing speed differential between vehicles, volume throughput can be maximized without a physical increase in roadway dimensions.”

The concept plays, in part, on one of traffic engineering’s core truths: Big speed differentials are dangerous. This is laid out in the “Green Book,” the bible of the American Association of Surface Highway Transportation Officials. “Crashes are not related as much to speed as to the range in speeds from the highest to lowest,” the book states. “Studies show that, regardless of the average speed on the highway, the more a vehicle deviates from the average speed, the greater its chances of becoming involved in a crash.”

Continue reading “Go Slow to Go Fast”

from There, I Fixed It – Redneck Repairs

https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThereIFixedIt/~3/LNt4x4wkQf4/