A Bicycle Safety Parable
I. The Artful Advocates and the Fair City Once upon a time in the land of the Massachusett, the streets of the Fair City of Cambridge were dominated by great an...
Category: Cycle Tracks
Unsurprising Surprises on the new Comm Ave
The new “protected” bike lanes (between the parked cars and the sidewalk) on Commonwealth Avenue along Boston University are finally (mostly) usable...
How Protective are Protected Bike Lanes?
Protected bike lanes are popping up everywhere in the Boston area and around the country. These newfangled facilities, where the bike lane is separated from tra...
The More Things Change
the American biking community itself split, violently, in the eighteen-nineties, between those who were in favor of dedicated bike paths and those who mistruste...
Bicycle Guidelines and Crash Rates on Cycle Tracks in the United States
Anne Lusk and her collaborators have published a paper in the American Journal of Public Health claiming that “the risk of bicycle–vehicle crashes is lowe...