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.
Jeffrey Hiles has some very interesting ideas about marking bike lanes that seem to have the potential to solve some of the traditional problems with them.
Just for example, he suggests solid striping on streets with higher speeds, dashed striping on medium streets, and simple painted bike symbols with no striping on other streets.
You can read the specifics (my summary above simplifies considerably) at
See especially the last section entitled "Bike lane design and mental models". posted by Brent Hugh at
Sunday, August 25, 2002 |
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