Category: transportation design

Analysis of Passing Distances between Bicycles and Motorized Vehicles on Urban Arterials

Analysis of Passing Distances between Bicycles and Motorized Vehicles on Urban Arterials

Mehta, Kushal
From University of Waterloo Library
Date: 2015-01-21 (submitted on: 2015-01-20)

[…] Several US states and Canadian Provinces have introduced, or (as is the case in Ontario) are considering, legislation requiring that motorists provide a minimum of one meter of lateral clearance when overtaking and passing a cyclist. […] The model shows that the proportion of passing maneuvers that are unsafe increases as traffic demand increases, the distance between consecutive traffic signals becomes shorter, and traffic signal cycle lengths become longer. […]

California Eyes Road Repair Fees as Gas Tax Receipts Ebb

California Eyes Road Repair Fees as Gas Tax Receipts Ebb
Bloomberg Business
1/29/15

[…] The legislation, part of a package of budget bills Brown must submit by Feb. 1, would allow local transportation agencies to expand carpool lanes to drivers willing to pay a toll. The package also would start a pilot program to test whether charging a fee based on miles driven works better than the current excise tax on fuel to pay for road work, according budget documents released earlier this month. […]

A Billion-Dollar Bicycle Superhighway Is Coming to London

A Billion-Dollar Bicycle Superhighway Is Coming to London

Popular Mechanics
2/2/2015

[…] London mayor Boris Johnson just approved an 18-mile stretch of separated bike lanes in the city. The east-west passage will allow cyclists to cross the city without the worry of getting too close to cars, and marks the longest stretch of protected bike lanes in Europe. […]

Times Square’s Crushing Success Raises Questions About Its Future

Times Square’s Crushing Success Raises Questions About Its Future

The New York Times
January 26, 2015

[…] The same reason that retailers and advertisers lust after a Times Square location is the same reason that others now find it unbearable: the crowds.

Some office workers and corporate clients complain bitterly of having to navigate thick and sometimes unyielding knots of tourists in various hot spots — including a giant video billboard outside the “Good Morning America” studios and a digital wraparound sign at the Marriott Marquis Hotel — just to get in and out of office buildings. […]

How Sharp-Elbowed Uber Is Trying to Make Nice

How Sharp-Elbowed Uber Is Trying to Make Nice

Wall Street Journal
February 2, 2015

Uber Technologies Inc. has followed a pugnacious expansion strategy as it rolled into 277 cities around the world, sometimes skirting local laws and daring regulators to stop the smartphone-based car service.

But as fierce challenges from regulators and taxi operators pile up from Portland, Ore., to Paris to Phuket, Thailand, executives at the San Francisco company are trying a new tactic: compromise and diplomacy. […]

Costly infrastructure may be less important for promoting cycling, CU study finds

Costly infrastructure may be less important for promoting cycling, CU study finds

Denver Business Journal
January 28, 2015

Setting up costly infrastructure to promote bicycling to work might be less important than things like multimodal transportation policies, bike-friendly workplaces and better integration of bicycling with transit.

That’s according to a new University of Colorado study, which also found that cities that host events such as Bike to Work Day, have an opportunity to find what keeps both avid and occasional cyclists from biking to work, and a chance to encourage the practice more. […]

State Senate Transportation Chair wants to toll people biking across 520 Bridge. Yes, really.

State Senate Transportation Chair wants to toll people biking across 520 Bridge. Yes, really.

Seattle Bike Blog
January 28, 2015

[…] It’s true, Senator Curtis King (R-Yakima) told King 5 that he wants to toll people biking across the still-underfunded 520 Bridge to “help us pay for it.” […] Banning people from biking or walking across the 520 Bridge for the past 52 years and counting. […]

Ore. Senate bill calls on cyclists to register, pay fee

Ore. Senate bill calls on cyclists to register, pay fee

KGW NBC News
January 27, 2015

[…] Senate Bill 177 would require everyone over the age of 17 to take a safety test, register their bicycle and pay the annual fee. […] “They don’t even slow down for a red light, they just go like heck through it and if they get hit by a car, they’re going to blame the car,” [….]