CAT | commuting
31
Segregated Cycling lanes
3 Comments | Posted by Mike in Centretown, Ottawa, bike lanes, city council, commuting
Hello all!
With winter finally seeming to have been beaten, it’s time to take this blog out of its seasonal (albeit never planned) hibernation.
There’s been a lot of attention paid in the past few weeks to a pilot project that would see the city create a segregated cycling route through centretown on a trial basis. The [...]
Sometimes the approach to problems taken by the City of Ottawa and its institutions boggles my mind, yet nobody seems to notice. On cbc.ca this evening there was an article discussing the fate of the male driver charged with 5 counts of leaving the scene of a collision after colliding with running through 5 cyclists [...]
22
7 People
6 Comments | Posted by Adam in Gatineau, Ottawa, commuting, cycling deaths, law, safety
This is the number of cyclists who have been taken to hospital since Saturday morning due to collisions with vehicles. 5 cyclists were hit on Saturday morning in a hit and run on March Road in Kanata, on Tuesday night a man was hit on Ogilvie Road and on Wednesday morning a man in Gatineua [...]
12
Getting Rid of Highways to Reduce Congestion
1 Comment | Posted by Adam in bike lanes, commuting, design, other cities, urban space
Often times debates surrounding urban space use pits cyclists who want road space removed from cars and designated for cyclists (as in Toronto) against motorists who want more road space for cars with the idea that it will ease traffic congestion. Often times it seems like a trade between a cyclists friendly, greener city and [...]
14
The safety of crowds
1 Comment | Posted by Padraic in commuting, other cities, safety, statistics
I can’t find a source, but I recall reading predictions from early in the summer of an increase in bicycle accidents due to high oil prices increasing ridership. That seemed plausible enough, but a study from the University of New South Wales concludes that the opposite is true:
“It’s a virtuous cycle,” says Dr Julie Hatfield. [...]
There is good news for Google Maps users like myself – those tired of its “Get Directions” feature being primarily designed for cars, making you respect one-way streets and incorporating speed limits into the calculations: Google has announced it will now offer walking directions. I discovered, for example, that apparently I spent 3 years taking [...]
I’ve long thought that dodging busses is the least fun part of cycling in the city, but David Reevely has a much scarier story than I could tell.
Hopefully OCtranspo gets back to him with a useful response.
18
Today in Cycling Douchebaggery
1 Comment | Posted by Mike in activism, bike lanes, commuting
As is often the case, today I had to wait for a light while biking to work (I was on my usual route: north on the Bay St. bike path before heading east on Queen St.) On the other side of the intersection, parked in the bike lane, a Paratranspo bus was loading someone [...]
This is absolutely terrifying.
The real question, left unanswered in the CBC article, is how on earth the cyclist got caught in the snow blower in the first place. I understand the vision of the snowblower driver is probably limited, but presumably he could see far enough ahead to see the cyclist well in advance; these [...]
20
A subsidy for your car-free commute
0 Comments | Posted by Padraic in California, commuting, economy
The Wired Autopia blog — which offers an uneven mix of car-worship and American public transit coverage — reports on a Californian health and safety regulation which forces businesses (of 50+ employees) who subsidize employee parking to offer cash to their employees who opt not use said parking. I’m tempted to think that, overall, it [...]
