Year: 2011

College: Parking more efficient land use than bike facility

Richard MasonerJanuary 19, 20115 Comments on College: Parking more efficient land use than bike facility

Texas community college with free parking would replace new velodrome with parking garage.

The Superdrome in Frisco, Texas built twelve years ago is a 100,000 square foot, $15 million 250 meter outdoor wood bicycle racing track. It’s a valued asset to the local cycling community with variety of events, including world-class competitions and weekly racing series. Teams from around the world use the Superdrome for training, and the facility is quickly becoming one of the nation’s primary sites for research on cycling and aerobic acitivity. The general public is also welcome to use the facility for training and for corporate events and meetings.

And the local community college wants to tear it down and replace it with a parking garage.

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Those scofflaw cyclists

Richard MasonerJanuary 18, 20116 Comments on Those scofflaw cyclists

Where: Ringwood Avenue, Menlo Park, California.

When: This morning.

Who: The guy riding the bicycle in front of me.

What: He almost got creamed by a left turning car.

Why: Because the ditz on a bike completely blew through a stop sign at the all-way stop. The left turning car driver very clearly had the right-of-way and had to stop short when the cyclist darted out directly in front of him. Props to the motorist for paying attention to cretins hazards; boo on the cyclist for making the rest of us look bad.

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