Bike Lessons in the Netherlands for the US
Worth 13 minutes of your time.http://www.streetfilms.org/from-the-netherlands-to-america-translating-the-worlds-best-bikeway-designs/#more-275594
Worth 13 minutes of your time.http://www.streetfilms.org/from-the-netherlands-to-america-translating-the-worlds-best-bikeway-designs/#more-275594
Yes, it’s Casimir Pulaski Day! Think of Pulaski when you’re biking to Greenpoint. And think, too, why the bridge named in his honor, on a four-lane road, has six lanes for car traffic (more than 70 feet) while it squeezes bikes and pedestrians into less than one lane (seven feet).
At least that’s what you would gather from the NYPD: The NYPD issued more summonses to cyclists than truck drivers last year: truckers got 14,962 moving violation summonses and 10,415 Criminal Court summonses, while cyclists got 13,743 moving violation summonses and a whopping 34,813 Criminal Court summonses. Priorities! Here’s the whole story in Gothamist, covering…
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After too many months away. I’m back in Astoria. Honestly, I haven’t biked much. But I’m pleased to see Astoria looks better than ever. On the upside: Butcher Bar on 37-08 30th Ave sells good meat (I still haven’t tried they BBQ, but I can vouch for their sauce, which is good). I don’t want…
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Mind you, this was in England. But still, impressive that trying to murder a bicyclist with a large weapon is actually a crime.
Common sense. But what they really need to do is allow bikes to go straight on red (after yielding). Stopping at red lights is for cars. Cars are the reason we have red lights. Because cars kill people. Red lights are not there to prove our obedience to a light that represents the authority of…
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I’m heading out of the country, perhaps for a while. There might be some “biking in foreign lands” posts, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Keep biking and see you in 2012.
I’ve had a link to this site for a while. But still, very few people know about the wonderful “Ride the City” bicycle route planner. There has been and will remain a link to this site in the right column of this blog. It’s wonderful Le me mention a few other things: 1) Google maps…
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At the Queens Library on Broadway. Aug 8, 6:30PM. Saturday at 11AM at the library at 21-45 31st Street. Here’s the PDF flyer. Here’s my 101: Buy a bike with fenders and without quick release. Get a good lock or two. Bike. Everything else you can pick up as you go along.
As reported in the Guardian. I particularly like the sneaker-and-sun-glass wearing white-jacket-on-black-t-shirt gold-chain fashion sense of the rich-asshole guy who got his car crushed (yes, I know it was all staged). He looks awfully like the guys I see hanging around cafes here in Astoria.
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