Biking in Baltimore
A community objects to not being consulted before a bike lane was installed. Now cyclists are upset that the lane is being removed.
By Fern Shen – Baltimore Brew
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/10/17/battle-over-a-bike-lane/
The bike lane “gives respect for cyclists,” says Herman Powers, who uses it daily.
Photo by: Mark Reutter
Ben Sollee, whose “Ditch the Van” tour last year delivered band and equipment on bicycles across the country, is returning to Biller’s Bikes SUN Stage on Sunday, Nov. 20.
The two shows at 2:00 and 8:00 are a fundraiser to help Biller’s launch its rebirth as a community non-profit bike shop and cycling advocate. The rising roots-rock star is filling up 1,500 seat venues on his current “Inclusions” album tour. The two shows will wrap his American tour. He will be joined by percussionist Jordon Ellis.
The $50 tickets include lite fare and open bar. At writing, both shows are selling out fast. The intimate SUN Stage room has remarkable acoustics and draws a great crowd. Shows here are always an unforgettable experience. For tickets by phone, call 443-502-2377. https://www.billersbikes.com
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.”
"As with so many great American leaders across the fields of industry and business who were the children and grandchildren of immigrants in the 19th century, Kimmell took his cue on how to get ahead in America from his forebears. Kimmell’s father, for instance, was an imaginative capitalist. “As a young man, around the turn of the 20th century,” Kimmell’s son-in-law and current Kimray chairman Tom Hill recalls, “Garman, Sr., would pedal a bicycle from town to town in rural Maryland. He carried a projector and a sheet on the back of it. After setting up, he’d charge a few pennies for people to come see a movie.”"
Continue reading “So Much to Give: The Legacy of Garman Kimmell”
[B’ Spokes: I’m including this article because of the author.]
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The Sun has invited participants at the Occupy Baltimore protest in the Inner Harbor to contribute articles about their experience, views and goals. This entry is written by Meredith Mitchell, a co-owner of Baltimore Bicycle Works, a cooperatively run bike shop in Baltimore. …
from There, I Fixed It – Redneck Repairs
https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThereIFixedIt/~3/LNt4x4wkQf4/
The survey is part of the Cycle MD campaign.
Please feel free to distribute the link throughout your networks.