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A number of years ago a cycling advocate friend of mine told me about John Forester's Effective Cycling, which I read and which convinced me that vehicular cycling was the best way to cycle and therefore, that I could commute on streets that most non-cyclists found intimidating. So I rarely ride on sidewalks. I will sometimes: if there are no pedestrians around, then I ride briskly, but if there are, then I try to ride no faster than at pedestrian walking speed, and also yield to pedestrians the way I would if I were on foot.

Forester, of course, is a traffic engineer, and I've really come to distrust traffic engineers in general, so I'm more skeptical of the vehicular cycling theory now. And I'm also told that ideas which Forester hates, like bike lanes and bike trails, are really important for increasing bicycle mode share.

by thm on May 30, 2008 1:56 pm • link • report

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