Kansas City Bicycle Log

Posts, email, and ideas related to bicycling and bicycle advocacy.



I post these mostly for my own convenience in being able to keep them archived and searchable, but if you get some use of them, more power to you!

Among other interesting items here is a fairly complete record of my involvement with the grassroots effort in support of the BikeKC initiative in the Summer of 2002.

You can find everything from press releases to letters to the city council to exhortations to other bicyclists to write letters to the editor. See what worked well and what caused us problems in the effort to pass BikeKC.

From my point of view, this was almost a picture-perfect grass-roots movement. The result was that BikeKC was passed on August 15th, 2002.

Now we have to work to make sure the plan becomes reality!

Most of that is in the 8/25/2002-8/31/2002 archive.

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Sunday, August 25, 2002
 
I'm sure you all know that there is some controversy in the bicycling community about bike lanes.

I don't think there is any controversy about the benefit of having some extra space on the right side of the road to make riding more comfortable and, possibly safer, for bicyclists and motorists who pass them. The controversy is simply about whether this extra space should be striped as a bicycle lane or simply as a wide curb lane.

Below is an interesting article I came across recently on the issue. It mentions several studies; unfortunately it doesn't give enough detail to know if these are really solid studies or not.

An interesting read nevertheless.

--Brent

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Source: http://www.best.bc.ca/resources/spoke/paradigm.html
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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