Tag: publicola
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Dan Bertolet hates cars because they kill your children
If only that headline were exaggerating. However, in his anti-car post on Publicola, Dan Bertolet points out that cars are the leading cause of death among American children: This is one reason I hate cars (but not the only one): They kill and maim an insanely high number of innocent people, and are a constant…
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On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909
A quick roundup of interesting stuff from around the city. Go Means Go has a book review of “Two Wheels North” by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, the story of two boys who rode their bikes from Santa Rosa to Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the review: On their best day they traveled 64 miles, over…
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Survey Says: Without my car lanes I’ll die!
Seattle does want bike lanes … but not if they take lanes away from cars. This is according to a survey by Survey USA. Only 46 percent of respondents said the city needs more bikes lanes (43 percent say the city has enough). However, if you mention taking out car lanes, people knee jerk and…
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Bike master plan already out-of-date?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at Publicola took a look at the city’s Bicycle Master Plan and determined it is too vehicularist and is already sounds out-of-date, even though it is only a few years old: This week, an astute PubliCola reader pointed out that language in the city’s Bicycle Master Plan seems to contradict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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Nickerson ‘road diet’ work to start next week
Work on Nickerson is scheduled to begin next week. This comes after a brief fight over the proposal, which will eliminate a traffic lane in each direction and add a center turn lane, a bicycle lane and safe crosswalks. Resistance was put to rest, largely because of an SDOT study showing the success of a…
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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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