Tag: bike nerd
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Pushing the car vs bike fight is not helping
Clearly, I am not someone who shies away from a good car vs bike fight … when it makes sense. But so often, they are unnecessary and distract from other surrounding issues, such as pedestrian safety. The pedestrian safety issues alone are enough to make the Nickerson changes (construction starts today) a valuable and important…
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Bike master plan already out-of-date?
Josh Cohen at Publicola took a look at the city’s Bicycle Master Plan and determined it is too vehicularist and is already sounds out-of-date, even though it is only a few years old: This week, an astute PubliCola reader pointed out that language in the city’s Bicycle Master Plan seems to contradict some of the…
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On other blogs: ‘Golf Ball From Army Navy Country Club Fifth Hole Hits Baby’
OK, that didn’t happen. But Navy Capt. (Ret.) Louis Kriser is worried that headline could someday run if a public bike path goes in next to the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia. Biking Bis has good analysis, as always.
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