Tag: bike nerd

July 27, 2010

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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tagged: bike nerd, cars vs bikes, king 5, nickerson
July 22, 2010

Bike master plan already out-of-date?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at Publicola took a look at the city’s Bicycle Master Plan and determined it is too vehicularist and is already sounds out-of-date, even though it is only a few years old: This week, an astute PubliCola reader pointed out that language in the city’s Bicycle Master Plan seems to contradict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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tagged: bike nerd, brown bag, cycle tracks, great city, publicola, vehicular riding
July 16, 2010

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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tagged: bike intelligencer, bike nerd, biking bis, car free days, critical mass, military, new york, other blogs, publicola