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Other Road Users
September 17, 2010 – 11:59 am
Bike Hub UK reports some interesting research from the UK Department of Transport on road sharing attitudes among British cyclists and those “Other Road Users” or ORUs. The ORUs — people who drive cars — largely believe almost all cyclists are scofflaws who cause accidents, congestion, pollution, stress, delay, tooth decay and other problems.
Santa Clara County to vote on bike restrictions
June 21, 2010 – 10:58 am
Update 8/25/2010: The Santa Clara County Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) and cycling event organizers met with San Antonio Valley residents for a roundtable discussion. These two groups together worked out compromise language for the Special Events ordinance that are acceptable to both groups. The important changes: Under the San Antonio Valley “Good Neighbor” Standards, read more
California Driver Manual and bicyclists
March 11, 2010 – 9:00 am
The California DMV recently published a new, 2010 edition of the California Driver Handbook. A change over previous editions is additional information about how motorists should behave around cyclists.
California Highway Patrol incident feed for bicycles
July 30, 2009 – 12:15 pm
I’ve whipped up a script that takes the California Highway Patrol live traffic incident data feed from the 20 CHP dispatch centers around the state and filters for anything mentioning bikes or bicycles. You can see the results here. At the time I’m writing this post, there’s a single incident between Woodland and Davis, CA: read more
Traffic lights and bicycles: The technical explanation
October 10, 2007 – 1:45 pm
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed AB 1581 into law, which requires all new traffic actuated signals to detect bicycles and motorcycles after Caltrans adopts uniform standards, specifications and guidelines for these kinds of traffic signals. Traffic engineer Bob Shanteau is an avid cyclist and active cycling advocate. He will present this paper on “Detecting read more
