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How to use "innovative" bike facilities
These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities -
new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! -- - Frank Krygowski |
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How to use "innovative" bike facilities
On 5/4/2017 10:13 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities - new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! Good start. Next they'll require cyclists to wear a fez, blow a whistle and wear pink leotards. The Planners and Masterminds are never satisfied until control is total. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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How to use "innovative" bike facilities
On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 11:13:26 AM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities - new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! -- - Frank Krygowski ****, wouldn't it be far easier not to mention safer just to makethe turns the same way that motor traffic does? IMHO, those bike boxes are accidents waiting to happen. Cheers |
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How to use "innovative" bike facilities
Frank Krygowski wrote in newsefg8g$ols$1@dont-
email.me: These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities - new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! The City of Ottawa is bringing in the same system. It's less than satisfactory. Here is the route that Google Maps suggests from my office to my LBS: http://tinyurl.com/131toMcCranks. The suggested route along O'Connor puts one in a two-way "bike facility" on the left-hand side of a one-way street. It says it will take one 13 minutes. Nonsense! It is risky and slower than that because both drivers and cyclists are confused. I use the option that takes me along the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, as I encounter less traffic, and fewer lights and stop signs. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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How to use "innovative" bike facilities
On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 3:34:16 AM UTC-7, Andrew Chaplin wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote in newsefg8g$ols$1@dont- email.me: These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities - new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! The City of Ottawa is bringing in the same system. It's less than satisfactory. Here is the route that Google Maps suggests from my office to my LBS: http://tinyurl.com/131toMcCranks. The suggested route along O'Connor puts one in a two-way "bike facility" on the left-hand side of a one-way street. It says it will take one 13 minutes. Nonsense! It is risky and slower than that because both drivers and cyclists are confused. I use the option that takes me along the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, as I encounter less traffic, and fewer lights and stop signs. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) Well, at least you live in an English speaking province. |
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On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 11:43:55 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 3:34:16 AM UTC-7, Andrew Chaplin wrote: Frank Krygowski wrote in news These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities - new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists.. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! The City of Ottawa is bringing in the same system. It's less than satisfactory. Here is the route that Google Maps suggests from my office to my LBS: http://tinyurl.com/131toMcCranks. The suggested route along O'Connor puts one in a two-way "bike facility" on the left-hand side of a one-way street. It says it will take one 13 minutes. Nonsense! It is risky and slower than that because both drivers and cyclists are confused. I use the option that takes me along the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, as I encounter less traffic, and fewer lights and stop signs. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) Well, at least you live in an English speaking province. Il ne m'en fait rien. Je suis assez bilingue pour faire mieux que seulement de me déboullier au Québec et en Acadie. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO |
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On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 1:34:22 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 11:43:55 AM UTC-4, wrote: On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 3:34:16 AM UTC-7, Andrew Chaplin wrote: Frank Krygowski wrote in news These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities - new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists. These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to 80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes. This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes. Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the cars? Be careful what you ask for! The City of Ottawa is bringing in the same system. It's less than satisfactory. Here is the route that Google Maps suggests from my office to my LBS: http://tinyurl.com/131toMcCranks. The suggested route along O'Connor puts one in a two-way "bike facility" on the left-hand side of a one-way street. It says it will take one 13 minutes. Nonsense! It is risky and slower than that because both drivers and cyclists are confused. I use the option that takes me along the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, as I encounter less traffic, and fewer lights and stop signs. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) Well, at least you live in an English speaking province. Il ne m'en fait rien. Je suis assez bilingue pour faire mieux que seulement de me déboullier au Québec et en Acadie. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO Être bilingue ne me semble pas être un avantage aux États-Unis. |
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