Posts tagged Sidewalk Cycling
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A Washington Post writer advocates violence against people on bikes
Move over, Courtland Milloy and your desire to stick broomsticks through bicycle wheels. The Washington Post has a new columnist who’s trying to inflame the populace for cheap clicks, and he suggests people should get cash for hurting people who ride bikes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Audits for all
On the clock; Don’t forget the buses!; Failure to communicate; “No” at any cost; Sidewalk cycling?; Finding the funding; Fair housing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Smoke pot in the snow
Marijuana is legal; Confusion; Necessary bike lanes; Break up with Bikeshare?; A new kind of bus; Cold never bothered them anyway; Girls, become transportation engineers!; Too little housing; And…. Keep reading…
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Is sidewalk cycling really dangerous, or just scary, like a roller coaster?
Advocates for a law against bicycling on sidewalks talk about safety. But with so few injuries or fatalities that involve sidewalk cycling, is this more about perception than reality? Maybe it’s like roller coasters, which are designed to be scary but not dangerous. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Discrimination
Unfair bike-on-sidewalk laws; 150 years of DC; 16th Street bottleneck; The voice of Metro; What St. E could look like; Tiny houses, big conflicts; DC now more efficient; Glen Echo trail survey; And…. Keep reading…
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Topic of the week: Banning cycling on sidewalks
A bill by councilmember Jim Graham to ban bicycling on sidewalks by adults when there’s an available bike lane has gotten a lot of attention. We asked our contributors what they thought about the idea. Some contributors, like Dan Malouff, didn’t want to outright dismiss the idea of changing the laws around sidewalk cycling, depending on the details: I’m… Keep reading…
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A new bill would ban cycling or Segway riding on DC sidewalks next to bike lanes
Lame duck councilmember Jim Graham wants to make it illegal to ride a bicycle or ride a Segway on the sidewalk along roads when there is a bike lane going in the same direction, except for children 12 years and under. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Civic duty
Bowser’s lead widens; No contest for ANC; Housing the poor; St. Elizabeths revitalization?; The future of Metrobus; Meditation in motion; Bike reich; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Housing progress or failure?
Halfway to affordable housing goal; Luxury over affordability; Pot enforcement highest in SE; No LOS in California; Bike lanes free up sidewalks; Who commutes by bike?; Bored at BWI? Go bike!; How Singapore seniors cross the road; Chocobo-oriented development?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The right transit project?
Are transit fantasies folly?; Is this bus BRT?; A bike boom spills onto sidewalks; Montgomery’s elusive jobs numbers; Smog suffocates SLC; UberX gets a little pricier; Apps to cure distracted driving; And…. Keep reading…