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Author: lifeontwowheels :: Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:31 pm ...for those who have been featured in the various community papers? Lyndsey Teter from the Other Paper is sitting down with me tomorrow for a bit to talk about bicycling. (0) Replies

Cycling Accident Survey - Risk Assessment Study
Author: PeterO :: Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:23 pm My local bicycle club, the New York Cycle Club, is conducting a worldwide bicycle accident survey. The results will be freely published as part of a cycling risk assessment study used for educational and advocacy purposes. Please consider entering one or more accident survey responses. The more responses, the more meaningful the results will be. It will just take a few minutes to complete. Thank you. http://www.nycc.org/ras/ (0) Replies

Cycling Accident Survey - Risk Assessment Study

Author: PeterO :: Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:23 pm

My local bicycle club, the New York Cycle Club, is conducting a worldwide bicycle accident survey. The results will be freely published as part of a cycling risk assessment study used for educational and advocacy purposes.

Please consider entering one or more accident survey responses. The more responses, the more meaningful the results will be. It will just take a few minutes to complete. Thank you.

http://www.nycc.org/ras/

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E-mail this guy
Author: Columbusite :: Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:13 pm Do you notice you have to bike on some rather bike-unfriendly streets where the speed limit is to high, etc? The transportation division of Columbus is responsible for the state of our roads. Send requests for traffic calming to: Mr. William Lewis, Manager of the City of Columbus' Transportation Division. walewis@columbus.gov He was nice enough to reply to my beef with Front street Downtown and will be providing a detailed response to my blog entry about why road improvements don't need votes but they do if they make roads safer for people, why some residential streets are 35MPH, etc. (0) Replies

E-mail this guy

Author: Columbusite :: Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:13 pm

Do you notice you have to bike on some rather bike-unfriendly streets where the speed limit is to high, etc? The transportation division of Columbus is responsible for the state of our roads. Send requests for traffic calming to:

Mr. William Lewis, Manager of the City of Columbus' Transportation Division. walewis@columbus.gov

He was nice enough to reply to my beef with Front street Downtown and will be providing a detailed response to my blog entry about why road improvements don't need votes but they do if they make roads safer for people, why some residential streets are 35MPH, etc.

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Tripping signals
Author: geofizz :: Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:15 am I cross Lane Ave at Fyffe four times a day. My bike won't trip the signal, and with no students on campus this week, I'm finding I'm often the only vehicle at the intersection. My bike won't trip the signal going either direction. I have to cross illegally to get to the pedestrian button if I'm headed south, and I have to cross the RH turn lane if I'm going north. Proceeding in the cross walk after poking the button puts me at risk of those turning R onto Lane if they arrive after I move myself to the curb. My dad is a cycling advocate in the SF Bay Area. He tells me that a bike should be able to trip the signal, but often the sensors need adjusting to respond to a bike. I know my bike does trip the signal at a few intersections in Upper Arlington, though only a few. What would be the proper agency to contact about this intersection? I'm not clear on what is OSU responsibility and what is Columbus responsibility in that area. Even if I knew, I have no clue who to contact. (11) Replies

Tripping signals

Author: geofizz :: Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:15 am

I cross Lane Ave at Fyffe four times a day. My bike won't trip the signal, and with no students on campus this week, I'm finding I'm often the only vehicle at the intersection. My bike won't trip the signal going either direction. I have to cross illegally to get to the pedestrian button if I'm headed south, and I have to cross the RH turn lane if I'm going north. Proceeding in the cross walk after poking the button puts me at risk of those turning R onto Lane if they arrive after I move myself to the curb.

My dad is a cycling advocate in the SF Bay Area. He tells me that a bike should be able to trip the signal, but often the sensors need adjusting to respond to a bike. I know my bike does trip the signal at a few intersections in Upper Arlington, though only a few.

What would be the proper agency to contact about this intersection? I'm not clear on what is OSU responsibility and what is Columbus responsibility in that area. Even if I knew, I have no clue who to contact.

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Pedal Instead-Today's Dispatch

Author: lifeontwowheels :: Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:29 am

Buried in the web-only letters to the editor today:

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Pedal Instead

It was gratifying to read the report on Columbus' progress on 20 environmental goals in the April 20 Dispatch. Improvements in air and water quality, promoting green businesses and in the conservation of natural resources indicate that Columbus is a leader in environmental stewardship in central Ohio. There is another program under Mayor Michael Coleman's Get Green Columbus initiative that is good for the environment and your health. Pedal Instead is a program that encourages people to use alternative forms of transportation to the city's festivals and special events. Pedal Instead is a bicycle corral consisting of a plastic fence and sturdy metal bike racks that is set up near festival sites and volunteers provide a free valet bicycle parking service. Launched in 2007, the Pedal Instead is operated by Columbus Recreation and Parks and is staffed by volunteers from the University Area Enrichment Association, Consider Biking and Battelle. Pedal Instead reduced traffic congestion at festivals and also improved air quality by keeping about 20,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere. Riding a bicycle is also one of the best forms of exercise and most festivals can be accessed by one of the city's bike and pedestrian trails.

Beginning with the Earth Day celebration at Goodale Park on Saturday, the Pedal Instead bicycle corral will be available at eight festivals and all of the OSU home football games this year. To learn more about Pedal Instead call Columbus Recreation and Parks at 645-3342 or visit the website at www.columbusrecparks.com Burn calories instead of carbon by taking advantage of Pedal Instead at city festivals this summer.

Mark A. Young

Columbus Recreation and Parks

Columbus

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Persuade Google To Map Bike Routes
Author: restoration bicycle :: Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:18 pm Please sign this: We are asking Google Maps to incorporate a bike travel as an equal option to automotive and bus transportation. This would be very cool and useful, especially with the new tracing algorithms they have recently implemented. Pass it around to all the cyclists you know. Google responds quite well to these things. http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html (0) Replies

Persuade Google To Map Bike Routes

Author: restoration bicycle :: Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:18 pm

Please sign this:

We are asking Google Maps to incorporate a bike travel as an equal option to automotive and bus transportation.
This would be very cool and useful, especially with the new tracing algorithms they have recently implemented.
Pass it around to all the cyclists you know. Google responds quite well to these things.
http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html

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bike friday initiative
Author: laura :: Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:04 pm i happened upon this site thanks to google... http://www.bikingtoronto.com/bikefriday/ i think it's an awesome grassroots idea and one that columbus should be able to adapt to. ideas, thoughts? (4) Replies

Positive Change by Unifying Bikers
Author: austinkocher :: Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:52 pm There are a lot of bicyclers in this city. Can we be proactive about creating a better, more cohesive community? Here's an idea. Many destinations to which I bike have no bike racks. This forces bikers to use undesignated objects to secure our bikes. This, in turn, creates an unsightly urban design for pedestrians and shopgoers and a sense of displacement for bikers. One solution? Find out who manages the property of your local establishments. Call them and ask them KINDLY to put in appropriate bike racks. Point out the benefits for them: supporting their customers, bikers and otherwise; contributing to sustainable transportation; encouraging respect for bikers that can bring immediate revenues as well as public attention of how "hip" that business is. This could go a long way towards gaining awareness for bikers. But it's not enough. I am in the process of making tags that we can hang on other bikes. These tags will have the name and phone number of the property manager, as well as a brief note like "Call Bill and ask him to install bike racks. By advocating for this improvement you will help yourself and others achieve awareness and safety for bikers and a gas-free alternative lifestyle." Yeah, something like that. Then, when I go places like the Lennox -my current issue in life- then we can 'tag' other bikers and give them a way to join us in the fight for equal access to public spaces. The Lennox, for example, regularly has about a dozen bikes chained to benches, lamposts, fire lane signs, etc. If they knew what to do to advocate for themselves, I believe the would do it. For bikers who have been tagged, it's now as easy for them as grabbing their cell phone and making a 60 second call. And this will work! People are driven by lobbying in a capitalist society so we have to make ourselves heard. Any thoughts? (10) Replies

Positive Change by Unifying Bikers

Author: austinkocher :: Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:52 pm

There are a lot of bicyclers in this city. Can we be proactive about creating a better, more cohesive community? Here's an idea.

Many destinations to which I bike have no bike racks. This forces bikers to use undesignated objects to secure our bikes. This, in turn, creates an unsightly urban design for pedestrians and shopgoers and a sense of displacement for bikers. One solution? Find out who manages the property of your local establishments. Call them and ask them KINDLY to put in appropriate bike racks. Point out the benefits for them: supporting their customers, bikers and otherwise; contributing to sustainable transportation; encouraging respect for bikers that can bring immediate revenues as well as public attention of how "hip" that business is. This could go a long way towards gaining awareness for bikers.

But it's not enough.

I am in the process of making tags that we can hang on other bikes. These tags will have the name and phone number of the property manager, as well as a brief note like "Call Bill and ask him to install bike racks. By advocating for this improvement you will help yourself and others achieve awareness and safety for bikers and a gas-free alternative lifestyle." Yeah, something like that. Then, when I go places like the Lennox -my current issue in life- then we can 'tag' other bikers and give them a way to join us in the fight for equal access to public spaces. The Lennox, for example, regularly has about a dozen bikes chained to benches, lamposts, fire lane signs, etc. If they knew what to do to advocate for themselves, I believe the would do it. For bikers who have been tagged, it's now as easy for them as grabbing their cell phone and making a 60 second call. And this will work! People are driven by lobbying in a capitalist society so we have to make ourselves heard.

Any thoughts?

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