Transportation
Issues involving safe streets, slow streets, bicycle safety, bicycle commuting
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 17, 2009
ElectricBike: “Japan Electric Bicycles Booming” Battery technology is leading the way, but the high price of fuel is pushing it along too. Top drivers: Delivery services and rental firms. Cannondale is recalling road bikes lacking spoke protectors. Doesn’t seem like that big a deal but there you have it. The law’s the law… Bicycle Times, [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged bicycle times, cannondale, Culture, david meek, electric bike, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 16, 2009
Revelstoke Times: “We heard that he was in jail one minute and the next, he died,” said a soft-spoken Lou Brown, who indicated he has trouble understanding how his son ended up dead while in a ‘suicide-proof’ jail cell. “[The jailers,] they’re supposed to be responsible for your life.” We talked previously about the wild [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged 3 feet please, Culture, e-scooter, internal gearing, Mountain Biking, nude cycling, sam brown
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 12, 2009
Went up north for variety, doing my standard Green Lake/Phinney to U District connector but then heading the long climb up 15th N.E. to Maple Leaf, site of the reservoir tank everyone can see from everywhere. The views on a chilly but sunny day were magnificent from this promontory, even if I-5 tends to get [...]
Posted in Culture, Today's Ride, Transportation | Tagged Culture, seattle, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 12, 2009
Seattle Times: “Bicyclist struck by vehicle in Wallingford.” No word on how it happened, but observation in comments is that drivers go too fast at that intersection. Meanwhile, in Texas, our “no citation issued” watch continues. If there’s an accident involving a bicycle, even if the cyclist dies, you can pretty much count on no [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged Advocacy, bicycle lawsuit, bike commuter tax credit, bike recall, Culture, electra, pilot lawsuit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 11, 2009
Seattle Times: “Attacks spur rider awareness.” The Times, in another example of why we need newspapers, covers the followup bicycle event promoting alertness to muggings around Sam Smith Park near the I-90 tunnel. “We’re not trying to make people paranoid about their safety, but we are trying to stress awareness,” said David Hiller, the Cascade [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing, Transportation | Tagged bicycle mugging, Culture, deflation, high school mountain biking, Mountain Biking, portland bicycle registration, seattle times, sidi
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 10, 2009
Took the long way around my standard loop today, going along the Burke-Gilman to University Village, where I dropped in for a look at the Apple Store’s new Macs, then continuing to N.E. 65th Street for the up-and-down-and-up etc. slog back home. The exercise kept me warm but sheesh, we’re only a week and a [...]
Posted in Today's Ride, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 10, 2009
This one especially hurts: A fellow journalist and a contemporary, one whose newspaper just shut down last week, is dead after being involved in a bicycling accident last Friday. Friends of Rocky Mountain News reporter James Meadow have set up a Facebook page with lots of memories, condolences and stories. Apparently he was literally “just [...]
Posted in Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged Culture, cyclist killed, david meek, james meadow, Rider Down
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 5, 2009
I ride my bike a lot, but I drive a car as well. So I have to marvel at people, several of whom I know, who do not own a car. In Shannon Markley’s case, that has been her situation since 1976. Shannon’s biography could be called “Life on a Bike.” She began cycling at [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Transportation | Tagged Culture, Marinoni, powder coat, Seattle Powder Coat, Shannon Markley, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 4, 2009
City of Seattle: “Comments needed for a safer Nickerson.” They’ll be putting in bike lanes on Nickerson, which can get a bit dicey heading out toward the Ballard Bridge. Open house tonight (Wed. March 4) at Seattle U. You can also add comments to the Web site queue. Bike Rumor: “Racing up despite economy.” Sea [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, News Cycle, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged bike lanes, Culture, LA Bike Summit, Nickerson, Sea Otter, seattle, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 3, 2009
As we mentioned on the post on yesterday’s ride, the city of Seattle is putting up new bike route signs for cyclists. The only ones I’ve seen so far are in Fremont, but plans are to establish them all over the city. Apparently they will be placed visible to motorists as well. Here’s the Fremont [...]
Posted in Culture, Transportation | Tagged Culture, seattle
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