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Stress Analysis in the Design of Bicycle Infrastructure
On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 7:23:58 PM UTC-5, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 8/11/2017 8:00 PM, AMuzi wrote: On 8/11/2017 5:55 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-08-11 15:05, sms wrote: https://bikesiliconvalley.org/wp-content/uploads/170808-5B-Alta-Level-of-Traffic-Stress-Knowles.pdf This was one of the presentations at the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition Bike Summit. Slide 6 is especially telling. No surprise that the U.S. has the lowest number of bicycle travel in terms of distance, and the highest death rate. No surprise to me whatsoever. I lived in three of those countries, Germany, Netherlands and US and can see why the numbers on slide 6 are what they are. When I had to ride from where I lived in the Netherlands (Vaals) to Maastricht I could pretty much set my 12-speed bike on the bike path, put it in 12th gear and hammer those 20 miles. I did the same distance here (Cameron Park to Folsom) yesterday for an errand. Aside from mixing in with fast traffic at times which some potentially interested cyclists don't like I also had to hack it across a dirt field for half a mile, including crossing a muddy creek and lifting the bike over some low fences. Hardly anyone would be willing to do the latter. On the way back it was mostly along a county road with 55mph traffic, ok but not exactly fun. But there's no end to that argument. People who live at a bus stop and work at another think buses are wonderful. But resources are finite and so for some people they are merely inconvenient but for most people buses are not useful in any way. I have a couple friends who do like buses. I rode yesterday with a guy who likes to use the bus to get out toward a distant bike trail. But when we first moved to town and had just one car, I looked into riding a bus the seven or so miles to work. It would have taken far longer than just biking the whole way. But for most people, I think this Onion article is accurate: http://www.theonion.com/article/repo...ublic-tra-1434 "Take the bus. I'll be glad you did." ;-) -- - Frank Krygowski Yep. I was visiting in Anaheim and wanted to visit Griffith Observatory. 35 miles driving. 6.5 hours bus travel time plus waits at stops. Biked there in 4 hours. |
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