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A New Transportation Bill? Panic, Round 8,377,201

Next Thursday, February 2, the House Transportation Committee is expected to vote on the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act.” Note the propaganda-friendly naming. This is, in fact, intended to be the long-awaited multi-year transportation bill.

As usual, we are being asked to PANIC about it and contact appropriate representatives. The League is asking us to contact [...]

January 27th, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle facilities, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, election, federal funds, league of american bicyclists, legislation, minnesota, oregon, pedestrian access, politics, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, transportation options, urban planning | 2 comments

Bike Events & “Obeying the Law”

There’s been a bit of kerfuffle in Oregon this week over a charity bike event gone somewhat awry. It’s been covered over on BikePortland quite a bit. Essentially, as the story goes, law enforcement in a small town on the route of a large charity ride had complained to the organizers in past year that cyclists [...]

May 26th, 2011 | Category: bicycle laws, bicycle safety, bike events, common sense, oregon, roadway use, share the road | Comments are closed

Study: Analysis of Biking Trends & Policies in Large American Cities

There’s a new report out this week that shows Minneapolis in a shining light as a national example. Published by the University Transportation Research Center and authored by researchers at Virginia Tech and Rutgers Universities, the Analysis of Biking Trends and Policies in Large American Cities: Lesson for New York studies both aggregate national data and [...]

April 7th, 2011 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle facilities, bicycle recreation, bicycle safety, bicyclists, evaluation, federal funds, minneapolis, minnesota, oregon, roadway design, roadway use, science, share the road, st. paul, statistics, transportation options, urban planning, washington | Comments are closed

Study: Cycle Tracks Safer Than Riding in Street

A new study published in the journal Injury Prevention reports that cyclists in Montreal using dedicated cycle tracks have lower incidence of injury than cyclists using the street.

Cycle tracks are fairly common in Montreal and throughout Europe, particularly in the Netherlands. These are generally segregated from the traffic in the street, but still essentially part of [...]

February 11th, 2011 | Category: bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike lanes, complete streets, encouragement, engineering, europe, evaluation, netherlands, oregon, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, statistics, traffic calming, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed

Crash (Statistics) Bang Boom

It’s been getting tons of coverage in the local media and from national organizations: As the rate of cycling in the Twin Cities has increased, crash rate has declined.

Similar findings have occurred in studies in NYC, Portland (OR), and even Australia.

Meanwhile, in other places in the country, the news isn’t so good. Bike crashes in [...]

February 9th, 2011 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle safety, bicyclists, encouragement, enforcement, engineering, evaluation, minneapolis, minnesota, oregon, roadway use, statistics, traffic accidents, transportation options, urban planning, vehicular cycling | Comments are closed

Study: Portland Bikeway Investments Projected to Save City $800 Million by 2040

I’ve discussed the challenges of using single-site studies as universal truths before (and I’ve seen a few being abused thusly), but there’s a really interesting study out of Portland, Oregon that suggests bikeway investment is a money-saver.

Thomas Gotschi, from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, published “Costs and [...]

February 9th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle bridges, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicyclists, bike lanes, bike trails, complete streets, damn lies, encouragement, engineering, environmentalism, evaluation, federal funds, legislation, non-motorized transportation pilot program, oregon, physiology, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, science, statistics, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed
 
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