You would think that as the sun sets earlier, there would be fewer interesting articles about bikes in the northern hemisphere. But not so! Here’s a roundup of some good stuff floating around the web this week.
To kick things off, here’s one way we could increase the number of bikes on the streets:
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- Gregg’s Cycles gets a new website
- Bipedal Cycling Robot Can Balance, Steer and Correct Itself #DigInfo – YouTube
- EcoVelo calls it quits
- How “Undriving Licenses” Encourage a Rethink of Mobility (Video) : TreeHugger – Do you have your undriving license yet? I do!
- BikePortland.org » TriMet bus operator makes abrupt stop to avoid bike rider – Also, watch this video to see how it went down.
- Would you use this lane? – It’s the time of year where bike lanes get filled with leaves. Be careful!
- Loop-Frame Love: Cycle chic, personal style, and feminism – Cycle chic: Lioberation or tool of the patriarchy? Another take.
- Arkansas Officials Surround State Capitol With Even More Parking | Streetsblog.net – Because, you know, downtown Little Rock doesn’t have enough parking yet.
- “Carrying 70 pounds of kids keeps me warm.” « Cascade Bicycle Club Blog – All hail the bicyclist of the month!
- Are urban bicyclists just elite snobs? – Dream City – Salon.com – Spawned a bit on KUOW’s The Conversation, which unfortunately turned into: Call in and let us know what generalizations you have about all people who bike? *smacks forehead*
- The brutal logic of climate change | Grist – A must-read depressing post. Or if you can’t handle that version, here’s a version from America’s finest news source: Report: Global Warming May Be Irreversible By 2006
- BikePortland.org » BikeCraft: Photos and highlights – I want so much of this handmade bikey stuff!
- Sweet holiday deals for you (and us, too!) « Cascade Bicycle Club Blog – Detours was a Cranksgiving sponsor, so much cred!
- BikePortland.org » Photos: Riders in the fog – Cool photos and advice for winter biking
- “Lethal” chicanes highlight flaws in TfL’s Road Safety Audit regime, claim campaigners (+ video) | road.cc – Let’s NOT do this in Seattle
- letsgokent.com – Kent folks, take this survey and let them know you want more walking and biking!
- Biking Bis – Bicycle Touring :: Bicyclist wants to thank fellow riders who saved his life – Scary story
- Brian Williams Doesn’t Get How Streets Work. Will His Four Million Viewers? | Streetsblog New York City
- Driver charged in Lake City crash that killed 2 | Seattle Times Newspaper
- BikePortland.org » Sidewalk in Tigard shows potential for suburban cycle tracks – Hooray suburban cycle tracks!
- Green Bike Lane on LA’s Spring St. – Getting the green paint to stick is hard. Seattle’s had issues, too (though they keep getting better!)
- Local News | Why our sunsets are stuck in time | Seattle Times Newspaper – Also why the sun is always in your eyes these days (remember, use your lights during sunset/sunrise, too!)
- Spray paint, duct tape, flat tires and snake bites « Cascade Bicycle Club Blog
- Life Cycle: How did Chicago’s progressive new transportation czar Gabe Klein get that way? | Newcity
- How Bicycling Connects Us to a Healthier Community and Stronger Economy | Bicycle Transportation Alliance Oregon – Great resource! Basically a gathering of many arguments with links. Bookmark this one.
- The Riding Reporter: Menstrual Monday’s Holiday Lights ride – The best way to see holiday light displays is by bike!
- Evergreen is Hiring a Communications and Membership Director – Rad job alert!
- SDOT Holiday Pedestrian Safety Campaign: See You In The Crosswalk!
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10 responses to “Bike News Roundup: One way to increase the number of bikes on the road…”
Bicycle driver killed in Kirkland this morning by an overgrown infant behind the wheel of a car:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45596479/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/
Cherryquote:
‘”The bicylist was doing everything right and was well marked with lights and everything,” said Lt. Mike Murray, Kirkland police. “This seems to be an unfortunate accident.”‘
No, it wasn’t an “unfortunate accident.” An “unfortunate accident” might describe this situation if the the automobile driver inadvertently found his steering wheel to have become detached from the vehicle, or something akin to that. No, this was a case of the drunk driver making bad luck for himself and the bicycle driver. Fortune had nothing to do with it.
Just a small critique: the news roundups on this site can be a bit overwhelming. I’d much rather see 2-3 news roundups a week with 8-10 headlines than one monster list each Thursday. Especially when there is this much going on in the cycling world. Not to try to give you more work to do or anything…
By the way, Tom, thanks again for maintaining such a good source for cyclists in Seattle. I, for one, really appreciate what you’re doing here.
Thanks for the feedback. I get people who say they love the big list, others say it’s too much, others want several smaller ones throughout the week.
The reason I don’t want to do several smaller ones is that too many posts would then not be directly about Seattle. In some ways, the news roundup is therapeutic for me because it gives me an excuse not to write posts about too many things that are not in Seattle (oh, I’ll just put this in the roundup!).
Would it work better for you if I had two tiers of links? One smaller section of must-read stuff and the other that is interesting but not super pressing? Or I could highlight certain ones in bold or something to show that they are recommended.
How about splitting the roundup into Seattle news and national news? A visual break in the list would be helpful, at least aesthetically :)
I’m in the prefers-the-big-list camp. Thanks for compiling them! Categorization probably wouldn’t hurt, though.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelebers/6455506923/in/photostream
This is perfect example of why “Effective Cycling” hates bike lanes. If this was not designated a bike lane, cars could drive a bit more to the right, and the right side tires would sweep this junk more to the right.
Of course the other alternative is for cities to spend money and have a street sweeper come along this route and clean it up.
Surrey Downs has it good, only having leaves in the bike lanes. Snohomish County has all kinds of sharp, nasty junk in the lanes. And, in turn, Snohomish County’s bike lanes look clean compared to the ones in Silicon Valley, where I actually observed street sweepers sweeping debris into bike lanes. I lost a ton of tires back there…
Is KUOW, just for elite radio snobs? After they fired Cliff Mass, I stopped listening. Who cares what they broadcast anymore.
I get my NPR (National Petroleum Radio) non-news out of Tacoma (KPLU) and my actual news from Belleuve College (KBCS)
If you’d like to let the Commissioner of NYC Transportation know how you feel about their bicycle program you can send them a message here:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maildot.html
From the Brian Williams interview, it appears the Commissioner reads all the complaints that they get from the News papers. You might like to let them know their actions have reactions even out here on the Left Coast.
I half want to make a silly comment about the robot cyclist steering too much with the wheel and not enough by lean… I’m not sure if the robot can lean, though. If it can lean, since it’s riding a fixie, it should be able to do a track stand!