[Bikies] biking while black in the Southland

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-16/examining-dijon-kizzee-bike-stop-police-shootings

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[Bikies] NYT: ‘Lionhearted’ Girl Bikes Dad Across India, Inspiring a Nation

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TLDR: this teenager bought a $20 bike and used it to carry her injured
father 1200km from Delhi to their village. True grit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/world/asia/india-bicycle-girl-migrants.html

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Re: [Bikies] Fwd: Monday Update: Bike Elevator Down, Transpo Commission, Cyclocross, and more!

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Some folks - self an example - aren't comfortable with facebook given
certain... recent developments. There needs to be an alternative for those
people, and bikies is currently the only greyhound chasing the rabbit. The
information you posted is both useful and welcome here.


On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 4:12 PM Donna Magdalina via Bikies <
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> It’s still going but I suspect most people are getting their updates
> through the Madison Bikes Facebook page
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:12 PM Andy Bach via Bikies <
> bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>
>> Just curious - is the Bikies list defunct? Or just underpopulated?
>>
>> "tap tap - is this thing on?" Here's actual info:
>>
>> This Week
>> https://www.madisonbikes.org/madison_bike_calendar
>>
>>  *Monday, November 18,*
>>
>> The monthly *Madison Bikes Board Meeting* will be held at *6:00 PM* in
>> the first floor conference room of Madison’s Central Library.
>>
>> *Tuesday, November 19,*
>>
>> At *7:00 PM *in the Discovery Building on the corner of Randall and
>> University, the *Crossroads of Ideas: How Can We Move Forward on
>> Wisconsin Transportation? *lecture will discuss the future of
>> transportation in Wisconsin. The lecture will be in the H. F. Deluca Forum.
>> The lecture will be held by several local transportation officials
>> including Madison Bikes Board Member Robbie Webber and City of Madison
>> Traffic Engineer Yang Tao. This event is free to attend, but registration
>> is requested. Learn more about this event on the Facebook Events page
>> 
>> .
>>
>> *Wednesday, November 20,*
>>
>> The *Transportation Commission *is meeting at *5:00 PM *in Room 215 of
>> the Madison Municipal Building at 215 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
>> .
>> The Transportation Commission will be reviewing the Third Quarter Traffic
>> Safety Report by Madison Police and the City Engineering’s 2020 Projects
>> among other items. You can read the full agenda here
>> 
>> .
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Forwarded message -
>> From: Madison Bikes 
>> Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:01 PM
>> Subject: Monday Update: Bike Elevator Down, Transpo Commission,
>> Cyclocross, and more!
>> To: Andy 
>>
>>
>> Monday Update: Bike Elevator Down, Transpo Commission, Cyclocross, and
>> more!
>> 
>>  *By
>> Jim Wilson on Nov 18, 2019 10:59 am*
>>
>> *Path Clearing under Verona Road*
>> *.
>> (Photo by City of Madison Engineering.)*
>>
>> At Tuesday’s Common Council meeting, the Council adopted an Operating
>> Budget that funds snow and ice clearing for Madison’s arterial shared use
>> paths within 12 hours of a winter weather event! Previously there were only
>> funds to keep the paths cleared on weekdays and non-holidays. This is a
>> major victory for biking and walking in Madison. It will prevent some of
>> the major issues with clearing paths on Monday after a Friday snow where a
>> weekend’s worth of walking and biking compacts snow and creates dangerous,
>> icy patches that cannot easily be removed. This will also help keep the
>> paths clear for commuters whose job schedules don’t revolve around a 9 to
>> 5, Monday through Friday schedule.
>>
>> Also in the budget: $350K towards the implementation of Vision
>> Zero/Traffic Safety. Introduced as an amendment by Alder Grant Foster, all
>> council members signed on as co-sponsors and the amendment passed
>> unanimously. The money will be available to do safety enhancements to some
>> of our city's most dangerous intersections and corridors in the coming
>> year. Vision Zero, which aims to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious
>> injuries, will be a larger process, but it's great that we have some money
>> available to kickstart it.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who emailed their alder in support of this vital path
>> maintenance!
>>
>> The Monona Terrace Bike Elevator is down! @MononaTerrace reported
>> 
>> on Tuesday that the Bike Elevator has suffered a breakdown. At this time it
>> is believed the bike elevator will be operational some time this week after
>> substantial repairs are made.
>> This Week
>>
>>  *Monday, November 18,*
>>
>> The monthly *Madison Bikes Board Meeting* will be held at *6:00 PM* in
>> the first floor conference room of Madison’s Central Library.
>>
>> *Tuesday, November 19,*
>>
>> At *7:00 PM *in the Discovery Building on the corner of Randall and
>> University, the *Crossroads of 

Re: [Bikies] E-Bikes

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Respect to John for cheerfully making good.

I'm also concerned about cell phone use on moving bicycles, which is not
the same as saying that I've never done it. As far as I can tell, it's
legal pretty much everywhere save Holland. Let's guess that that's a
recognition that a distracted cyclist is less of a hazard to others than a
distracted driver, but it's still a boneheaded move with risks to others.
(Or if you have a head that's entirely bone, it might be okay - few of us
do. However...) Lots of jurisdictions have mandatory helmet laws, which are
entirely for the benefit of the riders (and those who pay their medical
costs) - why not laws that also protect other road users? Using a cellphone
while driving in my jurisdiction costs a first-time offender a total of
more than $400US, plus a whole whack of points - why not $50 or $100 for an
offending cyclist?

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 4:48 PM Brian Mink via Bikies <
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> John Wagnitz, Thanks for following through with the contribution! Here’s
> hoping there are no deaths associated with using e-assist bikes on bikeways
> and trails. I see daily use and by and large users tend to be well behaved.
> I see more issue with roadies passing at high rates of speed without regard
> to the safety of others. Also increasing use of cellphones by cyclists
> which is the kind of distraction that is likely to be responsible for more
> injuries and deaths than e-assist cyclists.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian Mink
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> Sent with Unibox 
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> On Aug 1, 2019, at 5:30 PM, john wagnitz via Bikies <
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>
> Done. A bet I am happy to have lost and a worthwhile cause.
> John
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> 
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2019, 3:42 PM, Harald Kliems 
> wrote:
>
> Hi John:
> I guess it's August now, and as far as I know there have been no fatal or
> serious injury crashes involving e-bikes in Madison. Please mail your $100
> to
>
> Madison Bikes Inc.
> P.O. Box 260244
> Madison, WI 53726-0244
>
> Or you can donate online and contribute to our Pinney Library fundraiser
> https://www.madisonbikes.org/pinney_library_rack_raising(other Bikies are
> welcome to contribute as well!)
>
> Best,
>  Harald.
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 7:56 PM Harald Kliems  wrote:
>
> John, I'd happily take you up on the bet! $100 that there won't be a
> fatality on the bike path in Madison that involves someone on an e-bike
> before the end of July 2019. Maybe we can get another bikie as a bookie and
> referee. And so that we don't run afoul of any gambling regulations, you
> can send the $100 as a donation to Madison Bikes if I win.
> Best,
>  Harald.
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:55 PM john wagnitz via Bikies <
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> Anybody taking bets on how long before we see a fatality on the bike path
> in Madison? I predict before the end of the month.
> The offenders are not riding B-Cycles but seem to all be riding “bikes”
> with the Copenhagen wheel. I’m pretty sure they are breaking the speed
> limit.
> The State Legislature gave local governments the power to regulate these
> “bikes.”
> I hope any local officials reading this post will do something before
> somebody gets seriously injured, or killed.
> John Wagnitz
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Re: [Bikies] E-Bikes

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I too, at times, would like to attack the integrity of another poster. But
I don't, because... well, actually, I often do. Case in point, in fact. But
I enjoyed this particular discussion regardless any overblown claims. What
actually lights my fuse is reasoned, measured comments - tolerance of
others who might ride differently than I do is a particular irritant. After
all, we didn't labour to build and maintain this internet of ours for
rational discourse - we built it so we could compare one another to facists
and genocidalists, as God intended.

I love-hate you all.

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> I too, at times, want to yell out into the void of the interwebs to create
> drama where none has existed before. But I don't,  because I am a rational
> adult.
>
> So let's be real,  there has been no notable accidents or incidents
> resulting in serious injuries or deaths. There has been nothing brought to
> the attention by local news outlets. And those who are riding said bicycles
> are probably more aware of their surroundings because of the precious cargo
> they carry.
>
> This post/chat has successfully wasted nearly 10min of my time in what
> equates to pointless squabbling. If you want to make great use of time
> here,  let's focus on advocating for better roads, inclusion of separate
> bike lanes on reconstruction and resurfacing of roads,  and more signage to
> alert drivers of cyclists.
>
> Be Best.
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 12:45 Steve Arnold via Bikies <
> bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>
>> On 7/9/2019 5:38 PM, john wagnitz via Bikies wrote:
>> > Anybody taking bets on how long before we see a fatality on the bike
>> > path in Madison? I predict before the end of the month.
>> > The offenders are not riding B-Cycles but seem to all be riding “bikes”
>> > with the Copenhagen wheel. I’m pretty sure they are breaking the speed
>> > limit.
>>
>> Insofar as I know, there is no speed limit on Madison paths and state
>> trails.  What statute, ordinance, or administrative rule do you think
>> establishes a speed limit?
>>
>> > The State Legislature gave local governments the power to regulate
>> these
>> > “bikes.”
>>
>> The "e-bike bill" has been passed by the Senate and recommended by an
>> Assembly to the full house, but not passed by the Assembly or signed
>> into law by the government.  The powers you describe do not yet exist.
>>
>> > I hope any local officials reading this post will do something before
>> > somebody gets seriously injured, or killed.
>> > John Wagnitz
>>
>> The supporters of the e-bike bill (including the Wisconsin Bike Fed, the
>> American Heart Association, the Cities and Chambers of Commerce of
>> Madison and Milwaukee, Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging Resources,
>> Trek, Harley-Davidson, Uber, and the WI League of Municipalities) agree
>> that differences in speed in congested areas, not speed, and especially
>> not the source of motive power, are the source of many safety risks.
>>
>> They urge those who will have power to regulate the newly defined
>> vehicles to first consider separation of modes, e.g., providing cycle
>> tracks parallel to roads and separating multi-use paths into cycle
>> tracks and pedestrian ways.  This solution is in place and working well
>> on the busiest active transportation facilities in Madison:  the Capital
>> City State Trail at Monona Terrace, where bike commuter and fishermen
>> and -women safely coexist.
>>
>> If there is still a safety problem, or if mode separation is infeasible,
>> then regulators should consider speed limits for all facility users, not
>> just one vehicle type.  We all have seen bicycle athletes on completely
>> human-powered bikes hammering down multi-use paths without regard to
>> other users.  Why pick out e-bikes, or Copenhegen Wheel users, for
>> special attention?
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[Bikies] Ars: Bike lanes need physical protection from car traffic, study shows

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Data shows that painted bike lanes (and/or parked cars) cause...
murderists... to pass cyclists substantially closer than their absence.

Lobbying for a marked bike lane? Maybe reconsider.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/bike-lanes-need-physical-protection-from-car-traffic-study-shows/

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Re: [Bikies] Opinions wanted re: Surveillance Cameras on the Bike Path

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Two questions that come immediately to mind are these: (1) what's the
rationale for installations of the cameras and (2) will the streams be
public?

For those who missed it, the NYT recently published an article about the
application of cheap commodity facial recognition technology to a public
cambot stream, and the results were pretty distressing. When considering
the tradeoffs of camera installations, it's - obviously - important for the
stakeholders to understand the implications. But those implications aren't
obvious. Or at least they weren't to me. TLDR: for about $50, the Times was
able to buy time from a service such as Amazon's Rekognition and monitor
the activities of an arbitrary stranger.

Even if the streams aren't intended to be public, one has to wonder if the
mechanisms to secure them actually work. Examples abound where maintainers
of such services wrongly believed that simply failing to publicize the
address of a stream was equivalent to securing it, but it ain't.


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> Please give your views on the installation of surveillance cameras along
> the East Side bike path between S. Blount and S. Brearly Streets.
> These will be the first cameras installed specifically on a City bike
> path, so full vetting of the issues is important.
>
> Input on the question has been so far somewhat limited. Some members of
> the MNA board have been soliciting support for the cameras. Given the
> strong feelings many have about safety and privacy, it is important that
> all points of view have an opportunity to be heard.
>
> Regardless of whether one is for or against the use of surveillance
> cameras to address safety issues, the important thing is that the diverse
> views in the neighborhood are heard.  If you think a neighborhood meeting
> to discuss this question is warranted, please let District 6 alder, Marsha,
> know.
>
> So please, if you have thoughts either pro or con, or mixed feelings. Let
> the Board and Marsha know. And if you feel comfortable doing so, copy your
> views to this listserv.
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[Bikies] CityThe Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work

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This article looks at primarily geographic determinants of how USA gets to
work. Madison gets a mention in the 'bike to work' section. But my
favourite part is this:

 Education is another piece in the picture of how Americans get to work.
People are less likely to
 drive to work alone and to use alternate modes in metros where more adults
are college
 graduates. The share of adults with college degrees is negatively and
significantly (-0.41)
 associated with driving to work alone, and positively and significantly
associated with using
 transit (0.56), biking (0.62), walking (0.56), and working from home
(0.50), although it is not
 statistically associated with carpooling.

That is, while hardly anybody is biking to work in USA, having a college
degree is a strong predictor of both biking and use of transit. That might
be because cyclists and transit users are just smarter and have better data
to make wise transportation choices, or it could be because jobs requiring
college degrees are more likely to be found in denser, more bikeable and
transit-friendly urban areas and compact college towns - I'm going with the
former explain!

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/commuting-to-work-data-car-public-transit-bike/580507/

Also, super cool "dala floda web" font for the headline. Want.
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[Bikies] Motorists Punish Helmet-Wearing Cyclists With Close Passes, Confirms Data Recrunch

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This isn't entirely new - in fact, the data is from 2007 and was published
before - but it's another science-based look at the efficacy of bicycle
helmets in preventing cyclist injury. The conclusion of the authors - then
and now - is “Wearing a [cycle] helmet might make a collision [with a motor
vehicle] more likely in the first place,” I'm wearing mine anyway, in part
because there are other ways to crash your bike than being struck by a
motor vehicle, such as incautiously drafting another cyclist or just being,
sadly, a klutz.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2018/11/14/motorists-punish-helmet-wearing-cyclists-with-close-passes-confirms-data-recrunch/amp/


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Re: [Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

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Canadian bills - made of plastic - work even better. But the smallest
denomination is a fiver.


On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 11:20 AM Harry Read via Bikies <
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> Yesterday I found that one of the Gatorskin tires on my commuter bike has
> a small tear in the sidewall. I discovered this after getting a flat,
> patching the inner tube, and then having it go flat again--with a pop and
> rapid loss of pressure. After patching the inner tube again, I spotted the
> tear, and the inner tube bubbling out of it.  So I wondered, is that
> repairable? Turns out, it is, although it's not advisable as a permanent
> solution; but if you were out on the road, it would probably get you home.
> In this video, they tested duct tape, a regular inner tube patch, a
> glueless patch, an emergency "tire boot" (essentially a special patch made
> for this purpose) and a dollar bill--a long-known hack, apparently. The
> upshot is the best two were the dollar bill and the tire boot, which both
> worked at 120 psi. I think the bill works because it's strong and doesn't
> stretch very much.
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Re: [Bikies] loose pit bulls outside of Evansville on highway M

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I like to think that bear spray would require no license, be less lethal (a
goal?), be just as effective, be cheaper, and be lighter to carry, but I
haven't tried it yet. I've had enough close calls in rural areas to
seriously consider it.


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bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:

> When David Couper was police chief in Madison he routinely carried his
> service revolver to handle situations like this. Following his example, I
> sometimes carry. One time while biking in Lafayette County a woman sat on
> her front porch and watched her dog come after me. She did nothing.
> Dismounted, placed the bicycle between me and the dog, and drew a weapon,
> telling her I would shoot unless she called the dog off. She did. Situation
> resolved.
>
>
>
> On 4/25/2018 6:09 AM, Peter Gray via Bikies wrote:
>
> Hope you're OK after crashing, Eric! You sort of buried the lede there ...
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Eric White via Bikies <
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> This is just a heads up to keep a lookout for two loose pit bulls at the
>> address below when riding outside Evansville. I was heading east into town
>> last Sunday when one of them got a bead on me and made a beeline through
>> the yard, ignoring its yelling owner. At the last second it flipped up and
>> out of the way of oncoming highway traffic and was grabbed by its owner and
>> dragged inside. In the meantime I'd crashed into the gravel trying to step
>> on it and avoid the dog and the swerving oncoming car.
>>
>> The owner came out and apologized but I would expect that these dogs are
>> out loose in the yard  quite often.
>>
>> Location:
>>
>> https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7468266,-89.2812608,3a,75y,3
>> 24.82h,80.47t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sWuN-vgaYU7UpbG7k221Gug!2e0
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[Bikies] Veemo

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Here's Vancouver-based Velometro Mobility with their "Veemo" service, yet
another take on dockless bike share programs. This one is based on
fully-enclosed, electric-assist velomobiles. This article in the Kitsilano
blog announces the start of the public deployment of five vehicles -
evidently the first public deployment - at the UBC Vancouver campus,
following a brief private pilot:

 https://www.kitsilano.ca/2018/02/27/veemo-at-ubc/

More information about the vehicles, which will eventually be offered for
retail purchase, is available here:

 https://www.velometro.com/veemo/

There, we learn that they plan to eventually expand the service to the
(relatively distant) urban core - where it will be interesting to see how
parking works out. Handy features include regenerative braking, such as
many hybrid automobiles have, and roof-mounted solar panels, which I don't
think any hybrid automobiles have.

Presumably riders can't end a trip off campus, but it's a big (and quite
flat) campus, so there should be plenty of multi-kilometer trips to be
availed. Like other dockless systems, the rental process is based on a
dedicated smartphone app. All they say about pricing is that it's
$.10CA/min ($.077US) during a promo period of indeterminate length.

Part of the charm of these things is that they are easy to park and the
operator doesn't need a driver license - driver licenses are much harder to
get in BC than in USA and many university students don't have one.

Five vehicles, 65,000 people on campus - that's one vehicle for every
13,000 potential users. I don't think it will change lives at this scale.
Membership is (at least initially) free, though, so they shouldn't have
trouble finding customers.

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[Bikies] dockless e-bikes in Seattle

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In this longish article, a Seattle Bike Blog writer (but not Tom Fucoloro)
gives his first-hand take on the new Lime e-bikes currently deployed in
Seattle:

 https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2018/02/12/howell-going-steady-with-lime-e/

Lime plans to switch 40% of their Seattle deployment - currently at 4000 -
to this model over time - currently there are 500 Lime-Es deployed - and
two other bikeshare companies also plan to add some e-bikes to their mix.

In general, he seems to like them. They top out at 15mph and -
counterintuitively to me - offer less assist for more applied pedal power.
That will make a ride up a steep hill very attractive.

He doesn't mention the cost structure, but I've read elsewhere that it's $1
to unlock, plus $1/10min - so, a half hour ride for $4, Contrast to $1
total for a half-hour ride on a conventional one. Not clear if there are
subscription deals like there are for the conventional bikes, but it seems
accurate enough to characterize it as four times more costly.

The claim is that each four-hour charge yields sixty hours of riding.
Besides greater capital cost, the cost of Lime staff visiting each bike to
swap batteries every few days leads to an increased operating cost over the
manual bikes. Presumably, too, these bikes will clump at the top of steep
hills just as the manual one clump in the valleys. Redistribution costs
will be high.

It will be interesting to see how this works out. For one thing, it seems a
lot safer to leave a 40# mechanical bicycle on the street, and somewhat
less safe to leave a costly, repurposable lithium battery pack and motor on
the street. I hear the palms of Seattle makers rubbing together briskly in
anticipation. And these bikes will be just as easy for vandals to toss into
the ship canal.
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[Bikies] The Guardian: Chinese bike share graveyard a monument to industry's 'arrogance'

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These photos of piles of discarded bikes from various Chinese dockless bike
share platforms in this article are terrifying

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/25/chinas-bike-share-graveyard-a-monument-to-industrys-arrogance

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[Bikies] Study: 90% Of Bike Accidents Preventable By Buying Car Like A Normal Person

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"Gafferty went on to say that people who biked for exercise should consider
driving to a gym and using a stationary bike facing a wall of televisions
like everyone else."


https://www.theonion.com/study-90-of-bike-accidents-preventable-by-buying-car-1820403123

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Re: [Bikies] new middle school bike program

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Nice.

Recently the NYT reported on research linking exercise and learning. The
specific study they looked at here is a small-scale one that demonstrated
that college students exposed to foreign language instruction while riding
stationary bicycles learned better than those sitting at desks, but there
is more research that makes the link. A takeaway would seem to be that the
idea some districts have had of eliminating recess in favor of more hours
of instruction probably isn't a good one, while programs that get students
moving, such as this one, probably are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/well/move/how-exercise-could-help-you-learn-a-new-language.html

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Meiers, Steven via Bikies <
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> http://www.nbc15.com/video?vid=450836253
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>
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[Bikies] CBC: Victoria, B.C. to introduce dock-free bike sharing service

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Victoria BC - a city of about 80K - is getting a dockless bicycle share
system:


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bike-sharing-victoria-1.4292987

And it's a different company than the four that have announced or are
deployed in Seattle - U-Bicycle. The initial deployment, at 150 bikes, is
small. They have committed to going to 300.

The article doesn't mention it, but it appears from their (awful, at least
in English) site:

 https://www.u-bicycle.com/en/

that each bicycle includes a helmet. Like King County (where Seattle is),
BC has a mandatory helmet law. All the Seattle deployers have treated that
as a customer issue, so it's interesting to see a vendor provide them - if
it works out, that will put pressure on the others.

I don't have numbers, but it seems to me that fewer Vancouver cyclists are
wearing helmets every day. Enforcement is light, generally being reserved
as a way to harass cyclists who somehow attract the ire of a police.

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[Bikies] Citi Bike Operator Is Developing A Dockless Bike

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Even Motivate (NYC Citi Bike operator) is looking into dockless bikes:

 http://gothamist.com/2017/08/30/citi_bike_dockless.php

Also, here is a Washington Post article that looks at the Chinese operators
currently metasticizing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexpanding into US markets.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-exports-its-bike-sharing-revolution-to-the-us-and-the-world/2017/08/31/474c822a-87f4-11e7-9ce7-9e175d8953fa_story.html

Interesting is the assertion that short rides on ofo in China are actually
free. That's my favourite price!

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[Bikies] As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong With Us?

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The Times looks at how the Chinese bike sharing phenomenon has exposed low
suzhi as a national characteristic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html

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[Bikies] Double standard

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This is an interesting and disturbing case: a cyclist traveling in London
at 18mph on a track bike who struck a pedestrian who stepped into his path,
later succumbing to a brain injury. The cyclist was charged with
manslaughter, in part because regulations required his bike to have a front
brake, which it did not. Much was made of his enthusiasm for "alleycat"
videos, despite his behaviour in this instance - or any of his other
documented cycling behaviour - shared nothing in common with alleycat-style
cycling. Instances of UK motorists - who kill about 400 pedestrians
annually - charged with manslaughter are, of course, exceptionally uncommon.

>From the Cycling Lawyer blog, but also published in The Guardian.

https://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.ca/2017/08/the-alliston-mis-trial.html

I think it's safe to say that the comments on the post add little of value,
so I can't recommend reading them. You were warned.

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Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

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--
>>>> *From:* Robbie Webber via Bikies <bikies@lists.danenet.org>
>>>> *To:* Scott Morris Rose <stink...@gmail.com>
>>>> *Cc:* Bikies <bik...@danenet.org>
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, July 31, 2017 4:45 PM
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share
>>>>
>>>> I understand the appeal of the dockless system for both cities (no
>>>> major infrastructure to site in the right of way) and the occasional user
>>>> (no membership fees.) But for someone who is planning on using the system
>>>> on a regular basis, the per-hour charge can get pricey fast.
>>>>
>>>> Let's say you take the train into the city and want to use the bike for
>>>> the last-mile leg (which might be shorter or longer than one mile.) That's
>>>> $1 in the AM and $1 in the PM. You also want to use the bike to either have
>>>> lunch or run an errand midday. That's another $2 for the midday trip.
>>>> Finally, you are going out to dinner or happy hour with friends. That's at
>>>> least $1 more if you assume the final trip back to your train is covered as
>>>> part of your normal PM commute.
>>>>
>>>> So that's $5/day for an average day. If you are running a bunch of
>>>> errands or have several meetings during the day, it could be more.
>>>>
>>>> Sure, you might be able to just keep a bike in the city to use, but
>>>> then you can't get a ride home from your friend or call a taxi/Uber if the
>>>> weather changes. One of the nice things about bike sharing is that you can
>>>> leave the bike and walk away -- no need to worry about locking it up or
>>>> returning it to the same spot to use the next day.
>>>>
>>>> With a standard bike-sharing system, you pay a flat price and use the
>>>> bike whenever you want. If you keep your one-way trips under 1/2 hour (one
>>>> hour in some locations) there is no further charge to use the bikes in the
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> Dockless seems to favor the occasional user, standard dock system with
>>>> flat rate seems to favor the power user. Sort of like having a monthly pass
>>>> on transit.
>>>>
>>>> Robbie Webber
>>>> Transportation geek
>>>> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
>>>> organization with which I am affiliated.
>>>>
>>>> Founding member, Madison Bikes <http://www.madisonbikes.org/>
>>>> *...where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably to any
>>>> place year round.*
>>>> MadisonBikes.org <http://www.madisonbikes.org/>
>>>> Follow Madison Bikes on Facebook
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>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Scott Morris Rose via Bikies <
>>>> bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was a founding member of  Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a
>>>> conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city,
>>>> which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing
>>>> it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the
>>>> ashes of that subsidized system have arisen two competing unsubsidized
>>>> systems - Lime and Spin - which both use a dockless model. The way that
>>>> works is that the bikes have wheel locks that are unlocked when the bike is
>>>> rented. Locking the wheel lock ends the rental. There are some trade-offs
>>>> between the models, which mostly in my view skew in favor of the dockless
>>>> systems.
>>>>
>>>> With a dockless system, there is never the problem that a user will
>>>> arrive at the dock closest to their destination only to find that they
>>>> can't end the rental due to a full dock. There is also never the problem
>>>> that the dock is further from the user's destination (as long as the
>>>> destination is in the service area, which is the Seattle city limits for
>>>> both systems) that they have a substantial hike to that destination - users
>>>> park the bike wherever they can find empty sidewalk. There is no concept of
>>>> membership - users install an app and pay only for each of the rides they
>>>> take - both systems at $1/.5h. (There is also no escalating charge for
>>>> longer rentals 

Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

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gt; Finally, you are going out to dinner or happy hour with friends. That's at
>>> least $1 more if you assume the final trip back to your train is covered as
>>> part of your normal PM commute.
>>>
>>> So that's $5/day for an average day. If you are running a bunch of
>>> errands or have several meetings during the day, it could be more.
>>>
>>> Sure, you might be able to just keep a bike in the city to use, but then
>>> you can't get a ride home from your friend or call a taxi/Uber if the
>>> weather changes. One of the nice things about bike sharing is that you can
>>> leave the bike and walk away -- no need to worry about locking it up or
>>> returning it to the same spot to use the next day.
>>>
>>> With a standard bike-sharing system, you pay a flat price and use the
>>> bike whenever you want. If you keep your one-way trips under 1/2 hour (one
>>> hour in some locations) there is no further charge to use the bikes in the
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Dockless seems to favor the occasional user, standard dock system with
>>> flat rate seems to favor the power user. Sort of like having a monthly pass
>>> on transit.
>>>
>>> Robbie Webber
>>> Transportation geek
>>> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
>>> organization with which I am affiliated.
>>>
>>> Founding member, Madison Bikes <http://www.madisonbikes.org/>
>>> *...where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably to any
>>> place year round.*
>>> MadisonBikes.org <http://www.madisonbikes.org/>
>>> Follow Madison Bikes on Facebook
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/MBIIC/>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Scott Morris Rose via Bikies <
>>> bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was a founding member of  Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a
>>> conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city,
>>> which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing
>>> it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the
>>> ashes of that subsidized system have arisen two competing unsubsidized
>>> systems - Lime and Spin - which both use a dockless model. The way that
>>> works is that the bikes have wheel locks that are unlocked when the bike is
>>> rented. Locking the wheel lock ends the rental. There are some trade-offs
>>> between the models, which mostly in my view skew in favor of the dockless
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> With a dockless system, there is never the problem that a user will
>>> arrive at the dock closest to their destination only to find that they
>>> can't end the rental due to a full dock. There is also never the problem
>>> that the dock is further from the user's destination (as long as the
>>> destination is in the service area, which is the Seattle city limits for
>>> both systems) that they have a substantial hike to that destination - users
>>> park the bike wherever they can find empty sidewalk. There is no concept of
>>> membership - users install an app and pay only for each of the rides they
>>> take - both systems at $1/.5h. (There is also no escalating charge for
>>> longer rentals - each .5h segment is $1.) That lowers the barrier to entry
>>> for visitors, who only need to install and configure an app on their phones.
>>>
>>> On the downside, there is nothing to keep a malevolent passerby from
>>> chucking a bike into the Ship Canal, as the bikes aren't tethered to a dock
>>> or anything else between rentals. How substantial a problem that is, only
>>> time will tell, but evidently it has been a problem with the similar system
>>> in Manchester, and is a problem in Mountain View with Google's free bikes.
>>> First time I saw a dockless share system was several years ago in Kyoto,
>>> and I suspect they have very little problem there with vandalism, because
>>> Japan.
>>>
>>> I had a chance to see the systems in action during my Seattle trip this
>>> weekend, and I've attached photos of the bikes, which I didn't try as I had
>>> my own bike with me. I did install the Spin app, and it's simple both to
>>> configure and to use. Bikes of both systems were very prevalent in the
>>> neighborhoods I rode in, mostly along the Ship Canal (U District, Fremont,
>>> Ballard) and downtown. And people were riding them.
>>>
>>>

[Bikies] Single Bicycle Crashes at Skewed Rail Crossing (YouTube)

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Dozens of crashes - many right into the path of oncoming motor vehicles -
at a single skewed crossing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfeQvbIFBks

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Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

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Evidently using Citi Bike costs a minimum of $12 - that's for a one-day
pass, and there is no cheaper single-use option. A three-day Citi Bike pass
is $24, yearly $163, vs. a thirty-day Spin pass for $29 - Citi Bike
evidently doesn't offer anything between three days and yearly (their
$15/mo plan requires an one-year commitment so is really an annual plan for
$180 with an installment payment plan). Except for Citi Bike users willing
to commit to a year, I think the Spin monthly pass is pretty attractive by
those standards. Citi Bike in such fine winter months as February probably
isn't as useful as other months. The ability to pay a buck to use it, or
Lime, once also compares favorably for a casual user.

To me, the challenges facing users of these two dockless systems are much
more about finding a working bike when you need one - they can't be
reserved while you walk to where the map shows one to be - risking a helmet
fine, and biking up some of those hills with only three speeds and no foot
capture. Being lured into an alleyway for a beating might also be a
downside. For the vendors, it's keeping the bikes out of the ship canal and
from being locked in people's private spaces so they'll be available for
the user's next ride. Let's guess that the police won't much enforce the
helmet law - Seattle jaywalking tickets are way down over the last decade
(though it has recently emerged that the story is less pleasant for
pedestrians of color).


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Robbie Webber via Bikies <
bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:

> OK. At least they are offering that. But that still works out a LOT more
> expensive than any annual or monthly membership at any traditional bike
> share, even NYC or DC.
>
> Robbie Webber
> Transportation geek
> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
> organization with which I am affiliated.
>
> Founding member, Madison Bikes <http://www.madisonbikes.org/>
> *...where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably to any
> place year round.*
> MadisonBikes.org <http://www.madisonbikes.org/>
> Follow Madison Bikes on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/MBIIC/>
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Eric Sundquist <nomoretraf...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> They have flat rate for dockless.
>>
>> https://seattle.curbed.com/2017/7/28/16060052/spin-bike-shar
>> e-monthly-pricing
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *From:* Robbie Webber via Bikies <bikies@lists.danenet.org>
>> *To:* Scott Morris Rose <stink...@gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* Bikies <bik...@danenet.org>
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 31, 2017 4:45 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share
>>
>> I understand the appeal of the dockless system for both cities (no major
>> infrastructure to site in the right of way) and the occasional user (no
>> membership fees.) But for someone who is planning on using the system on a
>> regular basis, the per-hour charge can get pricey fast.
>>
>> Let's say you take the train into the city and want to use the bike for
>> the last-mile leg (which might be shorter or longer than one mile.) That's
>> $1 in the AM and $1 in the PM. You also want to use the bike to either have
>> lunch or run an errand midday. That's another $2 for the midday trip.
>> Finally, you are going out to dinner or happy hour with friends. That's at
>> least $1 more if you assume the final trip back to your train is covered as
>> part of your normal PM commute.
>>
>> So that's $5/day for an average day. If you are running a bunch of
>> errands or have several meetings during the day, it could be more.
>>
>> Sure, you might be able to just keep a bike in the city to use, but then
>> you can't get a ride home from your friend or call a taxi/Uber if the
>> weather changes. One of the nice things about bike sharing is that you can
>> leave the bike and walk away -- no need to worry about locking it up or
>> returning it to the same spot to use the next day.
>>
>> With a standard bike-sharing system, you pay a flat price and use the
>> bike whenever you want. If you keep your one-way trips under 1/2 hour (one
>> hour in some locations) there is no further charge to use the bikes in the
>> system.
>>
>> Dockless seems to favor the occasional user, standard dock system with
>> flat rate seems to favor the power user. Sort of like having a monthly pass
>> on transit.
>>
>> Robbie Webber
>> Transportation geek
>> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
>> organization with which I am affiliated.
>>
>> Founding member, Madison Bikes <http://w

[Bikies] NYTimes: More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane

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Here's a fluffy piece with some nice photos about the rise of bicycle use
in Le Grosse Pomme:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html

I happen to have briefly been in Paris recently, and it was interesting to
observe the way bicycles are used there - namely, with utterly wild
abandon. One charming feature of traffic design: one-way streets that are
marked explicitly to allow bicyclists to ride counter-flow.

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Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

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Evidently the bikies list supports not the attachment. Here's stock images
to stand in:

https://assets.fastcompany.com/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto,fl_lossy/fc/3068900-inline-i-1-with-this-stationless-bike-share-system-you-can-park-your-bike-anywhere.jpg
https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/imageuploadedfromios.jpg


On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Scott Morris Rose 
wrote:

> I was a founding member of  Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a
> conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city,
> which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing
> it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the
> ashes of that subsidized system have arisen two competing unsubsidized
> systems - Lime and Spin - which both use a dockless model. The way that
> works is that the bikes have wheel locks that are unlocked when the bike is
> rented. Locking the wheel lock ends the rental. There are some trade-offs
> between the models, which mostly in my view skew in favor of the dockless
> systems.
>
> With a dockless system, there is never the problem that a user will arrive
> at the dock closest to their destination only to find that they can't end
> the rental due to a full dock. There is also never the problem that the
> dock is further from the user's destination (as long as the destination is
> in the service area, which is the Seattle city limits for both systems)
> that they have a substantial hike to that destination - users park the bike
> wherever they can find empty sidewalk. There is no concept of membership -
> users install an app and pay only for each of the rides they take - both
> systems at $1/.5h. (There is also no escalating charge for longer rentals -
> each .5h segment is $1.) That lowers the barrier to entry for visitors, who
> only need to install and configure an app on their phones.
>
> On the downside, there is nothing to keep a malevolent passerby from
> chucking a bike into the Ship Canal, as the bikes aren't tethered to a dock
> or anything else between rentals. How substantial a problem that is, only
> time will tell, but evidently it has been a problem with the similar system
> in Manchester, and is a problem in Mountain View with Google's free bikes.
> First time I saw a dockless share system was several years ago in Kyoto,
> and I suspect they have very little problem there with vandalism, because
> Japan.
>
> I had a chance to see the systems in action during my Seattle trip this
> weekend, and I've attached photos of the bikes, which I didn't try as I had
> my own bike with me. I did install the Spin app, and it's simple both to
> configure and to use. Bikes of both systems were very prevalent in the
> neighborhoods I rode in, mostly along the Ship Canal (U District, Fremont,
> Ballard) and downtown. And people were riding them.
>
> Another issue is with helmets, use of which is required by law in King
> County. Neither Lime nor Spin offer helmets with their bike or as a
> distinct rental, while Pronto! provided them with each bike, along with a
> presumably expensive scheme for cleaning them. That's going to lead to
> rampant scofflaw behavior. Or, more accurately, continue rampant scofflaw
> behavior - even many people on their own bikes ignore the law.
>
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>
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>
>
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[Bikies] dockless bike share

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I was a founding member of  Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a
conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city,
which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing
it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the
ashes of that subsidized system have arisen two competing unsubsidized
systems - Lime and Spin - which both use a dockless model. The way that
works is that the bikes have wheel locks that are unlocked when the bike is
rented. Locking the wheel lock ends the rental. There are some trade-offs
between the models, which mostly in my view skew in favor of the dockless
systems.

With a dockless system, there is never the problem that a user will arrive
at the dock closest to their destination only to find that they can't end
the rental due to a full dock. There is also never the problem that the
dock is further from the user's destination (as long as the destination is
in the service area, which is the Seattle city limits for both systems)
that they have a substantial hike to that destination - users park the bike
wherever they can find empty sidewalk. There is no concept of membership -
users install an app and pay only for each of the rides they take - both
systems at $1/.5h. (There is also no escalating charge for longer rentals -
each .5h segment is $1.) That lowers the barrier to entry for visitors, who
only need to install and configure an app on their phones.

On the downside, there is nothing to keep a malevolent passerby from
chucking a bike into the Ship Canal, as the bikes aren't tethered to a dock
or anything else between rentals. How substantial a problem that is, only
time will tell, but evidently it has been a problem with the similar system
in Manchester, and is a problem in Mountain View with Google's free bikes.
First time I saw a dockless share system was several years ago in Kyoto,
and I suspect they have very little problem there with vandalism, because
Japan.

I had a chance to see the systems in action during my Seattle trip this
weekend, and I've attached photos of the bikes, which I didn't try as I had
my own bike with me. I did install the Spin app, and it's simple both to
configure and to use. Bikes of both systems were very prevalent in the
neighborhoods I rode in, mostly along the Ship Canal (U District, Fremont,
Ballard) and downtown. And people were riding them.

Another issue is with helmets, use of which is required by law in King
County. Neither Lime nor Spin offer helmets with their bike or as a
distinct rental, while Pronto! provided them with each bike, along with a
presumably expensive scheme for cleaning them. That's going to lead to
rampant scofflaw behavior. Or, more accurately, continue rampant scofflaw
behavior - even many people on their own bikes ignore the law.

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[Bikies] NPR: Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake

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Again, the responsibility for staying safe on a bicycle is shifted to the
cyclist rather than the... ah... murderist.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/07/24/
537746346/bikes-may-have-to-talk-to-self-driving-cars-for-safetys-sake

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Re: [Bikies] Tim Wong

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

Bummer. He was already one of the grey heads of bicycle advocacy when I
arrived in Madison in '87. He, along with Mark Shahan and Lisa Goodman, was
a founding member of the BTA and of whatever organization preceded it, the
name of which I forget. Madison used to have a Bike/Ped Commission, of
which he was long the chair. Later, that was rejiggered to be the Motor
Vehicle Commission or something similar, and he was squeezed out. That was
not a happy day.

He always had strong opinions but I can't think of any instances where he
was actually wrong, even (or particularly) when we disagreed.

I was looking forward to connecting with him again on his vaguely planned
trip to the PNW. He waited too long.

Murderist was another of his fractured terms. Also Repugnican. And Demonrat.

What a loss.



On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Robbie Webber via Bikies <
bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:

> Tim Wong passed from this world on Monday afternoon. I'm posting this
> here, because Tim was so important and memorable to the biking community.
>
> If you didn't know Tim, you really missed a true Madison character, and
> someone who you can thank for starting some of the bike advocacy that
> continues today.
>
> Maybe some on this list who remember farther back than me can share some
> of his early adventures, like the mass, simultaneous flats that a group got
> at the intersection of John Nolen, Blair, and Willy St. If you think that
> intersection is bad now, you can thank Tim that it isn't worse. I don't
> know the whole story, but I know that Tim helped organize a protest that
> made it at least somewhat safer for bicyclists and pedestrians at a time
> when almost no one rode a bike for transportation.
>
> Tim wrote more letters, showed up at more meetings, and spoke at more city
> committees than almost anyone I've known. He never owned a car, and was
> probably the person that first coined the term "death-mobile." Tim was not
> subtle about his distaste for cars and driving. He could be irritating and
> alienated some people -- including his allies. But you could never say he
> didn't speak his mind and stand up for what he believed.
>
> Tim was 69, and rode his bike everywhere until a month ago, when he fell
> (not while riding) and hit his head, leading to complications that
> ultimately led to his death.
>
> If you knew Tim and didn't know he was in the hospital, this may come as a
> shock. If you didn't know him, you have no idea how far back his advocacy
> for bicycling goes. He wasn't always easy to work with, but he will be
> deeply missed.
>
> Rest in peace, Tim.
>
>
> Robbie Webber
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> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
> organization with which I am affiliated.
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[Bikies] 'Part of an evolution': [Vancouver] Downtown business partners with cycling group

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What a long strange trip it's been.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/downtown-bia-moves-from-disapproving-to-supporting-cycling-1.4173921

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[Bikies] The bicycle turns 200

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We are reminded in this treehugger article that (the precursor to) the
bicycle turns 200 years old this month:


https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/happy-200th-birthday-bicycle-timely-response-environmental-crisis.html

Is it a bicycle if it doesn't have pedals or cranks or a way to drive the
wheels directly, like these didn't? Dunno.

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[Bikies] Eighty Years of New York City (8:30 film)

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The New Yorker has created this 8:30 split-screen YouTube video putting
1930's film shot from moving vehicles next to quite synchronous video from
the modern day. It's interesting to see how many more cyclists -
transortation and recreation both - there are today than there were then.
Also, the day of the marked crosswalk and the pedestrian crossing signal
had not arrived - peds crossed willy-nilly.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5PSp51UGA

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Re: [Bikies] Bus Crash Kills Cyclist in First Citi Bike Fatality

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

Better coverage:


https://www.transalt.org/bike-forecast/2017/12/june-13th-2017-emerging-narratives

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Scott Morris Rose 
wrote:

> After 43 million trips over four years, the first fatality in the
> NYC-based Citi Bike program. Not too bad a record... unless you are his
> wife or one of his children.
>
>   http://www.bicycling.com/culture/citi-bike-death
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[Bikies] Bus Crash Kills Cyclist in First Citi Bike Fatality

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After 43 million trips over four years, the first fatality in the NYC-based
Citi Bike program. Not too bad a record... unless you are his wife or one
of his children.

  http://www.bicycling.com/culture/citi-bike-death

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[Bikies] How bicycles boosted the women's rights movement

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This is worth the 4:09 it takes to watch it, and then some:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLJgkVsXpE

>From Vox.

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[Bikies] Guardian on Bicycle Helmets

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I enjoyed - and learned some stuff from - this lengthy, well-written
article about the use of bicycle helmets and also the conversation thereof,
probably because the UK is considering writing new law. It's an edited
extract from the author's book. He's a political correspondent for the
Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/21/bike-helmet-cyclists-safe-urban-warfare-wheels

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Re: [Bikies] Uber admits to self-driving car 'problem' in bike lanes as safety concerns mount (The Guardian)

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Uber has now canceled their unauthorized trial of autonomous vehicles in
San Francisco, offering the hope that known flaws in their algorithms will
be fixed before the vehicles are next deployed.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/21/uber-
cancels-self-driving-car-trial-san-francisco-california

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Scott Morris Rose 
wrote:

> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-
> self-driving-cars-bike-lanes-safety-san-francisco
>
> The rush to market for self-driving vehicles seems poised to lead to a
> rush to the morgue for other road users, in particular for any cyclist who
> stumble into the path of an Uber making a right turn across a bicycle lane.
>
> Here's a story about a $38 million award won by a Seattle bicyclist
> injured when a parking valet took a common but illegal shortcut across the
> roadway where he was cycling.
>
> http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/
> bicyclist-severely-injured-by-valet-in-crash-awarded-38m/
>
> The point being that injuring bicyclists for the sake of expediency can
> lead to hefty civil penalties. Presume this logic will be applied to
> outfits like Uber.
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[Bikies] Uber admits to self-driving car 'problem' in bike lanes as safety concerns mount (The Guardian)

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self-driving-cars-bike-lanes-safety-san-francisco

The rush to market for self-driving vehicles seems poised to lead to a rush
to the morgue for other road users, in particular for any cyclist who
stumble into the path of an Uber making a right turn across a bicycle lane.

Here's a story about a $38 million award won by a Seattle bicyclist injured
when a parking valet took a common but illegal shortcut across the roadway
where he was cycling.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/bicyclist-severely-injured-by-valet-in-crash-awarded-38m/

The point being that injuring bicyclists for the sake of expediency can
lead to hefty civil penalties. Presume this logic will be applied to
outfits like Uber.

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[Bikies] Mercedes-Benz has a algorithmic solution to the "trolley problem" in the age of self-driving cars

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In a variant of "the customer is always right" principle, they code to -
surprise, surprise, surprise! - save the occupants of the vehicle in favour
of any number of pedestrians or other road users.


http://blog.caranddriver.com/self-driving-mercedes-will-prioritize-occupant-safety-over-pedestrians/

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Re: [Bikies] SkunkLock

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IANAL, but I suspect that the owner of such a lock faces substantial
liability if a government worker is injured removing such a lock, and that
will be enough to keep this from coming to market and will see it soon
pulled from the market even if it does. Then there is the issue of leakage
as the lock ages or is damaged in a collision. Let's see if I'm right on
that. Like my old pappy used to say, "I've been right before."



On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Robbie Webber via Bikies <
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> Yeah, I could see that.
>
> In the videos and photos, it looks like the lock is well labeled as a
> SkunkLock, but I don't know if that is just for advertising purposes or if
> a thief -- or city/campus official -- could actually tell a SkunkLock from
> a normal U-lock. A bit of warning would be useful for "authorized" lock
> cutting, but it might give the game away as a theft deterrent. Sort of like
> the Bait Bike program.
>
> Robbie Webber
> Transportation geek
> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
> organization with which I am affiliated.
>
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> *...where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably to any
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Chuck Strawser <
> charles.straw...@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Probably not deliberately. But you’d be shocked by the number of calls I
>> get from students who have lost their key, or left the bike/lock out in the
>> weather so long that the key broke off in the lock when they finally went
>> to use it. and those are just the people who bother to call us…
>>
>> chuck
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Bikies [mailto:bikies-boun...@lists.danenet.org] *On Behalf Of 
>> *Robbie
>> Webber via Bikies
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 25, 2016 9:59 AM
>> *To:* Chuck Strawser
>> *Cc:* bikies (bik...@danenet.org)
>> *Subject:* Re: [Bikies] SkunkLock
>>
>>
>>
>> I just have a feeling that someone who spends this much effort, thought
>> and money on their bike lock won't abandon their bike. But maybe I'm wrong.
>>
>>
>> Robbie Webber
>>
>> Transportation geek
>>
>> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or
>> organization with which I am affiliated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Founding member, Madison Bikes 
>>
>> *...where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably to any
>> place year round.*
>>
>> MadisonBikes.org 
>>
>> Follow Madison Bikes on Facebook 
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Chuck Strawser via Bikies <
>> bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Or a campus where all the racks are full of abandoned bikes….
>>
>>
>>
>> Chuck Strawser
>>
>> Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Planner
>>
>> Commuter Solutions
>>
>> UW-Madison Transportation Services
>>
>>
>>
>> *Please note that my email address has changed. My new email is* 
>> *charles.straw...@wisc.edu
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>> Visit our University Bicycle Resource Center at Helen C White:
>> http://transportation.wisc.edu/transportation/bike_annex.aspx
>>
>>
>>
>> How are we doing? Take our customer satisfaction survey at
>> https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CommSol_CSSurvey
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Bikies [mailto:bikies-boun...@lists.danenet.org] *On Behalf Of 
>> *Mitchell
>> Nussbaum via Bikies
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 24, 2016 5:48 PM
>> *To:* Scott Rose
>> *Cc:* bikies
>> *Subject:* Re: [Bikies] SkunkLock
>>
>>
>>
>> Charming idea, but there may be unintended consequences.
>>
>>
>>
>> What if you need to cut the lock on your own bike? I have done that
>> occasionally when the locking mechanism is hopelessly jammed or frozen? My
>> locks are cables -- my bike isn't expensive enough to require a
>> full-fledged U-lock, but I could imagine being in the same predicament with
>> a U-lock.
>>
>>
>>
>> What if some idiot locks his bike to your bike and never returns?
>>
>>
>>
>> What would the city do when they need to remove abandoned bikes from
>> public racks? We could end up with a bunch of smelly, nauseated Streets
>> employees.
>>
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>> *From: *"bikies" 
>> *To: *"bikies" 
>> *Sent: *Thursday, October 20, 2016 11:19:22 PM
>> *Subject: *[Bikies] SkunkLock
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/21/bike-lo
>> ck-developed-that-makes-thieves-immediately-vomit
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[Bikies] SkunkLock

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/21/bike-lock-developed-that-makes-thieves-immediately-vomit

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Re: [Bikies] crosswalk diagram and explanation of rules

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Don't recall and cannot locate that post, but here's a consolation prize:
"elephant feet."

 http://www.mapleridgenews.com/community/292716091.html

In BC, riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is not legal (unless explicit signage
or local regulation allows it), nor is cycling in a crosswalk, even when
it's part of a cycling-allowed path... unless there are elephant feet.

Recently, ICBC - the provincial insurance agency - tweeted a PSA with an
image of a cyclist riding across just such a crosswalk with a message
"reminding" cyclists not to cycle in crosswalks. That highlighted the fact
that few people are aware of the meaning of the markings, evidently
including some traffic professionals. That attracted the expected outrage
from cycling advocates, and is when I learned what elephant feet meant.


On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Robert Schultz via Bikies <
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> Hello,
>
> I may be misremembering, but I believe somebody shared a link to a very
> clear and helpful diagram of crosswalk use, including showing when a
> pedestrian/cyclist is considered "in the crosswalk". I tried to seach old
> e-mails and on Google, but I'm not coming up with it, so I was hoping
> somebody might be able to link it here?
>
> Thanks!
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Re: [Bikies] Make Your Own Bike Lane

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Nice.

I found Montreal to be a strange place to ride a bicycle the one time I
did, several years ago. It's an old city, and streets are narrow. Cyclists
- generallly unhelmeted - ride surprisingly close to parked cars, as if
being doored was not a thing. And maybe it isn't so much there - it sure is
here in YVR. I could not personally adapt to that local cycling culture,
though.

As far as I know - admittedly, unresearched - this is the only jurisdiction
in North America where right on red is forbidden (but just on the island).
Not sure if that's a hint to something deeper in the cyclist-motorist
relationship, but I love that hard.


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Ross, Arthur via Bikies <
bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:

> These types of guerilla actions go back to at least the mid 1970's.
> Google "Bicycle Bob" Silverman of Montreal and the tactics of Le Monde à
> Bicyclette in the 70's and 80's.
>
> Here is a recent article from April 2016 to get you started.  Bob's health
> is failing and his story needs to be re-told and live on.
>
> http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/cycling-in-
> montreal-qa-with-pioneering-activist-robert-bicycle-bob-silverman
>
> Cycling in Montreal: Q with pioneering activist Robert "Bicycle Bob"
> Silverman
>
> Is it true you once spent time in jail for painting a bike path on a city
> street?
>
> There was no bike path so we decided to paint our own. In 1975, we painted
> Marie-Anne and St-Urbain Sts. It was a warm night. We had about 10 people
> with rollers and no one was caught. The second time we painted the street,
> in 1980, I was arrested. A squealer called the police. I was arrested and
> there was a trial and I was convicted. I got a fine of $25 or eight days in
> jail. I refused to pay and went to Bordeaux prison. They let me out after
> three days.
>
> Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator
> City of Madison, Traffic Engineering Division
> 215 Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Suite 100
> PO Box 2986
> Madison, WI  53701-2986
> 608-266-6225
>
> 
> From: Bikies  on behalf of Jym Dyer via
> Bikies 
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 7:37 PM
> To: bik...@danenet.org
> Subject: Re: [Bikies] Make Your Own Bike Lane
>
> > This tradition of guerrilla bike lane protection may have its
> > roots in this action in Seattle:
> http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/04/04/guerrilla-road-
> safety-group-politely-
> installs-illegal-bike-lane-protectors-on-cherry-street/
>
> =v= San Francisco has a long history of its own guerrilla bike
> lane activity:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jym/3210388058/
>
> I think the more immediate inspiration was a New York-based
> group with the very similar Department of Transformation name.
> There are a number of us who spend time in both cites. ;^)
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[Bikies] Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds

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The Guardian reports on a paper given at the Safety 2016 conference which
reports on results of a large-scale study of bicycle helmet use in the
Australian state of New South Wales (which is where Sidney is).

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/22/bicycle-helmets-reduce-risk-of-serious-head-injury-by-nearly-70-study-finds

I suppose the money quote is "... reduce the risks of a serious head injury
by nearly 70%."

NSW has long had a mandatory helmet law, which has been unpopular with some
in the past and more in the present - the fine for not wearing a helmet has
recently risen from $71 to $319 ($240US). Not having a bell? $106. Not
stopping at a ped crossing? $425. Coming out of a jusrisdiction that is
evidently hell-bent of criminalizing cycling is sure to bring the
legitimacy of the study into question, rightfully or wrongfully.

More grist for the mill...

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Re: [Bikies] Make Your Own Bike Lane

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Nice. Having cycled in San Francisco quite a bit late last year, I can
confirm that it's a nasty, nasty place to ride a bike - mostly due to the
culture of frustrated motorists (and cyclists, it must be said) behaving
horribly, but also suffering some horrible design (I'm looking at you,
Market Street) - despite the fact that the city council there is pretty
much fully committed to increasing the cycling mode share. The asshat mayor
- not so much:

  http://sfist.com/2016/01/20/mayor_vetoes_bike_yield_ordinance_t_1.php

This tradition of guerrilla bike lane protection may have its roots in this
action in Seattle:


http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/04/04/guerrilla-road-safety-group-politely-installs-illegal-bike-lane-protectors-on-cherry-street/

What's beautiful about that story is the outcome - Seattle city staff
worked to return the pylons to the guerrillas and eventually installed
permanent, compliant pylons of their own, working with the state of
Washington (which owns that segment of Cherry Street) to follow The
Process. You can see the result here:


https://www.google.ca/maps/@47.6051852,-122.3279498,3a,75y,207.36h,63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9b8B5tCBOrUravDvoxPQrA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Cycling in Seattle has its own problems, but dickish behaviour by motorists
is strangely low on that list. Unless you count drunk and/or high ones.


On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:23 PM, tim wong via Bikies <
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> http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/09/a-cyclist-
> group-in-san-francisco-keeps-making-renegade-bike-lanes/
> 500909/?utm_source=nl__link3_092116
>
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> Earlier this year I was fined $1221 by the city for having wildflowers in
> my terrace and a burning bush in my yard. My trial occurred more than
> three months after the city council unanimously approved the "Pollinator
> Protection Task Force" report which seeks to protect pollinators--bees,
> butterflies, moths, bats, hummingbirds, etc., and preserve pollinator
> habitat  But the city's Building Inspection Division didn't get the "memo"
> and continues to order pollinator habitat removed and prosecutes people who
> don't comply. If you feel the ordinances on the books should be amended,
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[Bikies] NPR: U.S. Gasoline Use Hits A Record

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http://www.npr.org/2016/09/02/492271953/u-s-gasoline-use-hits-a-record-but-that-may-not-last

Increasing highway fatalities, a return to SUVs, and now record gasoline
consumption - America is great again already.

I kid America. America knows I kid.

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Re: [Bikies] Bikie apartments

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I differ from your self-criticism. The poster provides no fullname and so I
didn't click on it either. The standard for whether to follow a link can't
be "is likely to be a spam," but should be "smells even a little dodgy."
This one did. For whatever reason, Arthur chose to follow it and confirms
it's legit. Now we know. Before we didn't. Caution was fully indicated. You
are not "corrected" - you were fully correct.

I'd love to see posts missing a fullname rejected by the list management
software, but I don't maintain it so I can't implement that.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Torrey via Bikies 
wrote:

> I stand corrected ...
>
> >  ---Original Message---
> >  From: Ross, Arthur via Bikies 
> >  To: Donna Magdalina , 'Bikies' <
> bik...@danenet.org>
> >  Subject: Re: [Bikies] Bikie apartments
> >  Sent: 06 Sep '16 21:54
> >
> >
> >
> >  It's legit. Malmo, Sweden. Featured at the beginning of this video
> >  from Streetfilms
> >
> >  https://vimeo.com/179528719
> >
> >  Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator
> >  City of Madison, Traffic Engineering Division
> >  215 Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Suite 100
> >  PO Box 2986
> >  Madison, WI 53701-2986
> >  608-266-6225
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  FROM: Bikies  on behalf of Donna
> >  Magdalina via Bikies 
> >  SENT: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 9:26 PM
> >  TO: Bikies@lists.danenet.org
> >  SUBJECT: Re: [Bikies] Bikie apartments
> >
> >  On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Donna Magdalina 
> >  wrote:
> >
> >  > This looks like a spam email so I won't click on the link. Did
> >  > anyone click it and discover otherwise?
> >  >
> >  > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:43 PM, via Bikies
> >  >  wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> http://ohboy.se/en-overblick-av-ohboy/
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[Bikies] Is urban cycling worth the risk?

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

The Financial Times looks at urban cycling in terms of health benefits and
risks. Oddly, they don't consider the financial impact. They are mostly
focused on London, which has generally poor infrastructure and pretty lousy
air, but it can be generalized. Not a great article but provokes a little
thought and provides a little data.

  https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/

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[Bikies] NYT: Cycling Matches the Pace and Pitches of Tech

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

Cringeworthy reporting on the way recreational cycling has replaced golf
amongst the dealmakers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/business/dealbook/cycling-matches-the-pace-and-pitches-of-tech.html

Sorry...

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[Bikies] Traffic fatalities continued to surge in first half of 2016

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

Traffic deaths are up sharply in the US, with Wisconsin, at a 29% increase
over the first six months of last year, one of the worst.

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/traffic-fatalities-continued-to-surge-in-first-half-of-2016/

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Re: [Bikies] A New Take on the Old Graphic from Munster

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

They say "...driverless cars don't solve the problem" but of course that
understates the problem by a large margin. The expectation is that
driverless cars will worsen the space problem by making it more palatable
for folks to lengthen their commutes. McMansion time again.

As for Uber, I don't think there was ever a claim that it would help solve
any problem except enhancing convenience (and enriching the founders).


On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:19 PM, tim wong via Bikies <
bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:

>
> http://www.treehugger.com/cars/picture-worth-space-required-transport-60-people-car-uber-and-av.html
>
> proving the point that a car is a car is a car
>
> --
>
> Earlier this year I was fined $1221 by the city for having wildflowers in
> my terrace and a burning bush in my yard. My trial occurred more than
> three months after the city council unanimously approved the "Pollinator
> Protection Task Force" report which seeks to protect pollinators--bees,
> butterflies, moths, bats, hummingbirds, etc., and preserve pollinator
> habitat  But the city's Building Inspection Division didn't get the "memo"
> and continues to order pollinator habitat removed and prosecutes people who
> don't comply. If you feel the ordinances on the books should be amended,
> sign my petition:
> http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/revise-ordinances-banning-flowers-in-yards-and-terrace
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[Bikies] NYTimes/Gretchen Reynolds: The Surprising Health Benefits of an Electric Bike

[Scott Morris Rose via Bikies]

Reporting on a small-scale health study in Boulder of electric-assist
bicycles, part of an initiative to formulate policy on whether to allow
them on bike paths. They conclude that these bikes are a good way to get
sedentary folks into better shape. The article comments are (mostly) also
worth a read.

(For my part, I hate on the fucking things, particularly whenever somebody
passes me a little too close on one. But that's my problem, and not really
relevant to policy.)


http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/the-surprising-health-benefits-of-an-electric-bike-2/

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