‘Protected Intersection’ For Bikes Opens In Salt Lake City
Here and Now
9/30/2015
[…] “Protected intersections,” designed to prevent car-bicycle collisions, have long existed in the Netherlands, but they are just catching on in the U.S.
After a former video game maker in Oregon created a video (below) explaining the design, one was recently built in Davis, California, and another in Salt Lake City, Utah, and plans are being discussed in cities across the country. […]
How Cyclists Are Causing Cities Worldwide To Rethink Bike Safety
12/8/2015
Huffington Post
[…] In the film, [Bikes v. Cars] Gertten follows individuals in various cities at different points in their biking evolution. He focuses most on three places — Los Angeles, where a comprehensive transit system gave way to massive sprawl but a bike culture is returning; São Paulo, where car use is skyrocketing but a biker’s death has rallied activists to push for safety measures; and Copenhagen, Denmark, where bike-friendly roads are shown as a taxi driver’s worst nightmare, but are also part of what makes the city heaven on earth for cyclists. […]
Bilked out of bike lanes in CoronadoRiders take route that shows current state of street improvements
San Diego Reader
10/18/15
[…] A group of about 30 cycling enthusiasts descended on Coronado Saturday morning (October 17) for a group ride to highlight and protest what they believe is an unwise decision to suspend bicycle-related improvements in the community. […]
The World’s Nuttiest Bike Lane NIMBYs Live in a San Diego Beach Community
Streetsblog
9/24/15
[…] Think you’ve read about every possible NIMBY objection to bike lanes? Think again. These recent comments from a public meeting in San Diego’s affluent Coronado beach community are definitely, um, different. […]
SF Cyclists To Protest Stopping At Stop Signs With ‘Stop-In’
CBS
July 28, 2015
[…] The “stop-in,” as it’s called, challenges the San Francisco Park Police District’s proposal to increase enforcement measures by ticketing cyclists who don’t come to complete stops. […] But the Wigg Party, along with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, says enforcement is “diverting precious resources away” from the city’s Vision Zero project to prioritize street safety and prevent traffic deaths. […]
This Is What Happened When Bicyclists Obeyed Traffic Laws Along The Wiggle Yesterday
July 30, 2015
SF Weekly
[…] Riders arrived at every stop sign in a single file, coming to a complete stop and filing through the intersection only once they were given the right-of-way. The law-abiding act of civil disobedience snarled traffic almost immediately. […]
Chris Boardman hits back at critics after riding without helmet
Cycling Weekly
11/3/2014
[…] The British Cycling policy advisor drew the ire of cycling campaigners for appearing in the video wearing dark clothing and no helmet in the clip, which aired this morning […] Boardman says he also believes that helmets are a barrier to cycling for some people and insists the real dangers to cyclists need to be addressed first. […]
Female cyclists bear brunt of bad driving and harassment, study finds
Guardian
6/11/15
[…] Female cyclists are almost twice as likely as their male counterparts to be subjected to harassment or bad driving, according to a study that describes such frightening events as an everyday experience for most UK cyclists.
Much of this gender imbalance appears to be caused by drivers’ impatience with the fact that women tend to be slower cyclists, according to the research, a finding that runs contrary to the media stereotype of speedy, Lycra-clad riders being a focus of hostility. […]
Sabotage and hatred: what have people got against cyclists?
The Guardian
7/1/15
Cycling is bigger than ever in the UK but it has provoked a poisonous backlash. Recent incidents involving tacks scattered on roads and neck-high wire strung across cycle paths have taken the vilification of ‘Lycra louts’ to a whole new level
Road tax, red lights and lycra: the cycling ignorance quiz
The Guardian
July 3, 2015
[…] Earlier this week, my colleague Peter Walker wrote in-depth about the recent backlash against cycling, which has ranged from damaging media representations to tacks being left on the road and wires strung across popular cycle paths.
The piece received thousands of comments, many of them supportive of the article but many repeating the kind of generalisations and stereotypes it set out to challenge. […]
