Here’s a link to the study cited in the article: http://www.itdp.org/documents/European_Parking_U-Turn.pdf TRANSPORTATION: Reducing parking spaces helps cities cut auto emissions (01/24/2011) (Embedded image moved to file: pic28685.gif) Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporter With bicycle share schemes, smoothly running metros and pedestrian-only streets, Europe has an edge over the New World when it comes to alternatives to… read more
Advocacy
Take a Stand for Bicycling
The people over at People for Bikes, an initiative of Bikes Belong, have an email campaign going on right now. They are encouraging every cyclist to spend just a couple of minutes and email your representatives, reminding them that there are MANY people who feel bicycles and bicycle infrastructure are important. They even make the… read more
Critical Mass
I think you’d be hard pressed to find any cyclists who doesn’t agree more bikes on the roads means safer cycling conditions for all cyclists. How we go about achieving this volume of cyclists, however, is far more critical. For those who didn’t make last months meeting, we had a pretty lively discussion prior to… read more
Please Clear Those Cars
I’m sure I won’t be the only person who has ever seen a car like the one pictured to the left traveling down the road. It’s also likely I’m not alone in having seen such a car dump it’s load while underway. Certainly those of us who drive have, at some point, experienced such a… read more
I want to bike and walk but…
I’m not sure how we missed this last year. For Earth Day 2010, CTC member Audubon Society of RI challenged students grades 3 – 12 to respond to the lead-in “I want to bike and walk but…” The students addressed their essays, poems or raps to their town’s mayor and submitted their work individually or… read more
South Coast Regional Bikeway Summit
We received an invitation to attend The South Coast Regional Bike Summit to be held on February 15th to discuss connecting South Coast communities through a Regional Bikeway. In particular: With oil prices rising and health concerns mounting a voice is growing in the South Coast—calling for healthy, safe, and sustainable alternative modes of transportation.… read more
In Search of the “War on Motorists”
How many times have you attended a public meeting to discuss changing road usage policy or read about the current “war on motorists”? While perhaps not stated with quite these exact words, I have had many conversations where the under currents definitely revolved around images one draws up when they think of current trends and… read more
Make Driving More Dangerous?
There is an interesting study I happened upon on a UK blog called Bike Hub discussing a study done by researches at Newcastle University that found drivers who didn’t find the highways taxing enough were more prone to speeding or overtaking as they sought excitement. As a result the researchers suggest that making roads more… read more
Automated Traffic Monitoring Devices
I may be in the minority, but I’m someone who happens to value red light cameras. What about you? Have a look at this video and see whether it does anything to change your attitude towards these cameras: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qvXbIenivk How can anyone watch this video and not understand these drivers are simply dangerous and at… read more
Switching gears: more commuters bike to work
From NPR today — Can Providence Catch Up? By ALLISON AUBREY (2010-11-29) NPR (NPR) – One way National Geographic staffers in Washington, D.C., can get to know their company’s CEO is to take him up on his long-standing offer: to go for a lunchtime bike ride. “Anyone still downstairs? OK, so we ready to go,… read more
RIDOT updates bike program outlook
At our meeting yesterday with RIDOT Director Mike Lewis, the agency (thanks to Steve Church) handed out a bikepath update sheet including the following info on what projects might move ahead: to be advertised for bids in spring 2011: signed on-road bike route thru Pawtucket connecting the Blackstone path to Providence (3 miles) and segments… read more
We need real bike paths for real bike transportation
Here is the link to an interesting article I read this morning. One part that came as no surprise: “A 2009 literature review of traffic safety studies looked at bicycle crashes and discovered that multi-use paths are more dangerous to ride on than even major roads.” Though I am not sure that launching on a vast… read more