Where you ride your bike is a civil rights issue–fifty years ago, people were asked to move to the other side of the road because they were different. The same thing is happening now. The law states that we’re supposed to ride as close to the right hand side of the road as is...
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Question: What do the following two quotes have in common? Well-planned, well-designed, context-based streets are an integral part of a comprehensive transportation network that safely supports the needs of the communities and the traveling public, no matter how they are traveling. and The motor vehicle zone is generally considered the paved travel way of...
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I think I am on pretty safe ground when I say that eleven pages shouldn’t be necessary to explain a single, tiny aspect of traffic design to drivers. Yet, that is exactly how many pages the City of Minneapolis used when they published “Bike Lane Basics” complete with diagrams just in case the text...
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Not in my lifetime, anyway. From the “Road Warrior” column in the The Morning Call (Allentown, PA 12/29/11 by Dan Hartzell I have nothing to add.
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It’s here! The much anticipated (by me, anyway) Cady Way extension connecting Cady Way and Audubon Park to Coytown and Lake Druid Park (mountain bike park and community garden). Green line is the new connection (there were no roads through here). Yellow line is new, completed sidewalk. Pink line is proposed sidewalk (survey flags...
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I’m compiling and mapping crashes involving cyclists in bike lanes in Orange, Seminole and Osceola Counties. If you’ve been involved in such a crash I’d like to hear from you. Some key information I’d need: Date and Time: if you don’t have the exact date, just the year will do. Location: what street were...
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Business travel offers the opportunity to visit many wonderful cities. Often, however, that simply means flying in, taking a taxi to a hotel, and “touring” the inside of yet again another all too familiar lobby and set of meeting rooms. Then it’s a quick dash back to the airport in another cab and jetting...
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Join Mayor Buddy Dyer, Commissioner Robert Stuart and the Ivanhoe Main Street to celebrate the inauguration of our first newly installed bike corral in Ivanhoe Village Friday, September 30 11:00am – 12:00pm You can RSVP on Facebook.    
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The bike corral has finally been installed outside Ethos. I had a head’s up it was coming soon, but haven’t been over there for a few weeks. Mark Baratelli beat me to it on The Daily City. Photo by Mark Baratelli | Owner, TheDailyCity.com See more photos here. The space has been dedicated for...
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West Colonial has a bike lane that's offset from the curb. I've driven past it a few times, but I have yet to ride in it because I never have a reason to go that way by bike. Last Friday, John Schubert and I paid a visit to the Catrike Factory (more on that,...
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