Biking in Baltimore
Pedestrian injuries are the norm, not the exception, on city streets big and small.
The best way to build forgiving streets is to erect buffers, in both space and time, between fast-moving drivers and much more vulnerable bicyclists and pedestrians.
Continue reading “Random thoughts”
Engineer’s bike goes 0 to 60 mph in five seconds
In place of synthetic rubber fuel, however, the bike uses ordinary roofing tar. To ignite it, Pickens placed a model-rocket motor inside the engine. A button on the handlebar fires the model-rocket motor, which in turn sets off Pickens’s larger motor by lighting the roofing-tar fuel.
Continue reading “Rocket on two wheels”
Pedalcyclist fatalities occurred more frequently in urban areas (66%), at
nonintersection locations (67%), between the hours of 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
(30%), and during the months of June, July, and August (36%).
In 1994, the average age of pedalcyclists killed in traffic crashes was 28.9; in
2004 the average age of those killed was 38.7, and the average age of those
injured was 28.6.
Pedalcyclists under age 16 accounted for 21 percent of all pedalcyclists killed
and 32 percent of those injured in traffic crashes in 2004. In comparison,
pedalcyclists under age 16 accounted for 37 percent of all those killed in 1994.
Continue reading “Traffic Safety Facts”
The presentation at the Baltimore
Metropolitan Council (on 1/24/06) went well which was essentially to solicit
support for:
Strategy4B of Maryland
Continue reading “Baltimore Metropolitan Council presentation”
For those of you who missed the January 18th public review meeting of Baltimore City
Continue reading “Baltimore Bike Master Plan”
The Baltimore sun is running a piece on Batlimore City’s bike master plan and yours truely is quoted at the bottom.
Hi all –
Several very expensive bikes have been stolen from my store. Please look out for them. I am offering a reward for the return of each and any of them.
I am especially interested in catching the thief.
If anyone knows of someone working on bikes and installing high end parts, please let me know, as the bikes may be parted out.
Continue reading “Stolen bikes”
2006 Maryland Bicycle and
Pedestrian Symposium
One Less Car will host the 9th
annual Maryland Bicycle and
Pedestrian Symposium in the
Miller Office Building in
Annapolis on Wednesday,
February 8 2006.
The symposium will feature
speakers, presentations and
demonstrations of alternatives
to cars as transportation.
Continue reading “One Less Car in Annapolis”
From a discussion group: On these winter rides I continue to be disgusted by the number of
Mommy’s that are sitting in their Suburban’s, Expedition’s, LX-
470’s, Rover’s, and Volvo’s with their engines running, talking on
the phone or reading a book, spewing emissions into the environment
at the head of their few block deep neighborhoods waiting for little
Biff and Muffy to get off the school bus. What is wrong with these
people is a clear example of what is wrong with much of America.
Continue reading “101 (ab)uses of a car”
While bicyclists and pedestrians are major users of our roads and sidewalks, states do little to protect their safety in the same way that they do for drivers. A Fair Share for Safety program would ensure that transportation systems spend federal money dedicated to safety programs to protect bicyclists and pedestrians as well as automobile users.
Continue reading “Fair Share for Safety”