"The bike lane on Valencia Street was the [SF] Bicycle Coalition’s first big success. When those bike lanes were striped after a long campaign, biking increased 144 percent, according to city counts."
https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/10/CMGL7CDNMK1.DTL
Baltimore: Code Red air quality alert 7/12
Summertime is here, and yesterday much of Baltimore celebrated our first Code Red air quality alert with the usual routine- getting stuck in traffic.
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California: No safety standards on trails
The California Association of
Bicycling Organizations (CABO) is asking for financial help in a legal action to
correct a judicial mistake.
COURTS ALLOW DANGEROUS DESIGN OF
BICYCLE PATHS
COURTS SAY ALL BICYCLE PATHS ARE DIRT TRAILS
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You think you have it bad
Yu Qiang, Shanghai, China spends an hour for his 7 mile commute and he hopes that other people will use the new subway by his house so the roads will have less traffic on them and he can still use his car.
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Professional analysis of the
I found the age group, number of lanes and time of day break downs very interesting:
https://www.tfhrc.gov/safety/pedbike/ctanbike/24.pdf
https://www.tfhrc.gov/safety/pedbike/ctanbike/24b.pdf
The history of the bike path
Excerpt:
Post motorisation (Pre World War II)
In Germany, the National Socialist regime was committed to promoting the mass use of private motor cars and viewed the bicycle as an impediment to this goal. For the National Socialist authorities, the exclusion of cycle traffic from main routes was viewed as an important pre_requisite to the attainment of mass_motorisation.
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Happiness is a Dutch bicycle
https://betsydevine.weblogger.com/2005/04/07#a2231
Making trouble today for a better tomorrow…
Happiness is a Dutch bicycle On page 32 of his new book, Happiness: Lessons from a New The Netherlands, by a good bit. Why? Dutch bicycles, if you want my opinion. Holland has no monopoly on Layard’s big seven — family relationships, Here’s why the Dutch norm of bicycling everywhere creates more |
Bicycle master plan hopes to provide a biking boom
The dover post is running a story on the new Delaware Bike Master plan (https://www.deldot.gov/static/projects/bike_and_ped/bike_facilities/index.html). The Department of Transportation project manager believes that the creation of the master plan will make cycling safer by making bikers routes more predictable and roads more accessible. It will also promote neighboring neighborhoods. They are planning 92 miles of statewide trails, 102 miles of regional tails and 307 recreational miles in Kent County. The full story is available at https://www.doverpost.com/pages/newsbicycle.html
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A Bicycling Mystery: Head Injuries Piling Up
New York times
BUSINESS/FINANCIAL DESK | July 29, 2001, Sunday
By JULIAN E. BARNES (NYT) 1981 words
Late Edition – Final , Section 1 , Page 1 , Column 3
ABSTRACT – New data from Consumer Product Safety Commission shows number of head injuries among bicycle riders has increased 10 percent since 1991, in period when bicycle helmet use has risen sharply and ridership has declined; given ridership decline, rate of head injuries per active cyclist has increased 51 percent just as bicycle helmets have become widespread; safety experts say helmets do not prevent accidents from happening, but are extremely effective at reducing severity of head injuries when they do occur; say helmets can reduce severity of brain injuries by as much as 88 percent; experts are mystified as to why injuries are on rise; some cycling advocates contend that rising numbers of aggressive drivers are at fault; others suggest that many riders wear helmets improperly; specialists in risk analysis say riders using helmets may feel inflated sense of security and take more risks; photos; chart (L)
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Bicyclist Identified In Gaithersburg Fatal
Yesterday evening at 5:46 p.m. officers from the 6th District responded to a report of a bicyclist struck in the area of Great Seneca Highway and Quince Orchard Road. Officers and Fire Rescue arrived on the scene and found a 15 year old male had been struck near the intersection while attempting to cross the roadway and later died of his injuries. The young man has been identified as Rageim Wade of the 700 block of Clopper Road in Gaithersburg.
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