National Bike Challenge Update: Streets.mn is currently in 67th place (of 92) and MNDOT is 44th. It’s not to late to join and show your support for streets.mn. EVERY rider counts. Even if you only ride one day per week it will help. —— In April I had the opportunity to spend a week in […]
Part I – Promote Vehicular Cycling. Really? Part II – Who Wants Vehicular Cycling? National Bike Challenge Update: Fledgling team streets.mn is in 59th place in MN, MNDOT is 61st and BikeMN is in 32nd. Team streets.mn is open to all. More info here. Terminology: Given some comments two weeks ago, I thought a quick […]
Do you like a challenge? Or just want to show some support for streets.mn and have some fun? The League of American Bicyclists (LAB) is running the National Bike Challenge through the end of September. And there is, as of today, a streets.mn team! The primary purpose is to get people out riding their bicycles […]
Part I – Promote Vehicular Cycling. Really? Part III – Vehicular Cycling: If It Worked, It Wouldn’t Work There are a few reasons that vehicular cyclists give for their opposition to segregated bicycle facilities; they can’t ride fast on them, they have to stop too often, there are too many bumps and too much road […]
Part II – Who Wants Vehicular Cycling? There are two schools of thought on bicycle infrastructure and the promotion of bicycling. Vehicular Cycling, promoted by the U.S. beginning in the 1970’s, and Segregated Bicycling, promoted by Amsterdam beginning in the 1970’s. The results quite loudly speak for themselves and that should be the end of […]
In St Paul Bicycle Plan: Good Enough? I discussed five things that I believe, along with the Bicycle Plan, can get St Paul close to the ‘World Class Bicycling City’ that they say that they want to become and that many of us think that St Paul can become and will greatly benefit from becoming. Here […]
Nearly every year we hear that the number of people killed by people driving cars is down from the year before. That’s good right? The good news is that the trend has indeed continued downward since the number killed peaked in 1972. Nationally, only 33,561 people were killed in 2012 and 2.36 million were injured. […]
Tony Desnick and I both write about and are ardent promoters of bicycles for daily transportation. Tony also works for bikeshare outfit Nice Ride and is part of a car-lite household. He rides a bicycle to work nearly every day, on even the most brutal and inhospitable days that MN can throw at him. Yes, Minnesotans […]
I’m of two quite opposed minds on the St Paul Bicycle Plan. One of these minds is excited about it and can’t wait to see it implemented. The other, contrary to Rebecca Airmet’s Valentine, is disappointed that it falls so far short of what I’d hoped for. (Then again, my wife gives me a valentine […]
I met a friend for coffee this morning at a place about two miles from my office. Normally I would have ridden my bicycle. There are good segregated paths all of the way, the temp was warm enough (+16f) for a two mile ride, and time wasn’t an issue (and for this ride the time […]