Nothing more needs to be said. Click on the picture below:
Photo header reads: Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.
Photo courtesy of Juan Jose. Thanks to Tim for emailing me this picture.
The police have decided not to charge the cyclist for getting hit by one of their squad cars. Hooray!
I still think the cyclist should sue, if not for personal gain and payment of medical fees, then for making the point that cyclists deserve better treatment than we get around here. According to Style,
David [...]
It’s dangerous out there, cyclists.
As if to prove the point of my last few posts about the dangers of biking in Richmond, Style runs this article this week, “Cop Hits Cyclist, Who Gets Billed for Damages.”
This woman was hit by a cop car (Style left unstated whether the officer or biker is legally at fault), [...]
“A true bicycle network is one that can be safely used by a child.” - Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia
Yes, Richmond is painting a few bike lanes on a small number of streets. But I believe this is a bad idea. The more I read the more convinced I become that [...]
Richmond has been creating a few bike lanes recently. On Lombardy, there’s a short stretch with a painted bike lane, and Southside Richmond and Chesterfield have a few. They look like this:
This is wonderful. My main wish is that we would create a well-planned network of lanes that could provide safe biking [...]
When was the last time you did what your TV told you to?
When was the last time your TV told you to do something good?
The New York Times recently ran an editorial outlining how Paris, France has aimed to cut car traffic within the city by 40% by 2020. Here’s some of their tactics, some of which should be considered by Richmond in our effort to re-create our downtown:
Improve transit:
Increase and improve routes
Make transit cheaper
Make transit easier to [...]
The TD ran a story today on Chinese students who are spending a month at VCU. The students are all keeping blogs, which are a rich mine for discovering others’ impressions of our city.
VCU has links to all their blogs, but as far as I can tell, there’s no aggregator- which means you have [...]
VDOT and the Virginia Capital Trail Foundation are building a 55 mile bike & pedestrian trail linking Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Richmond - the current and former capitals of Virginia.
Parts of the trail are already open in James City County: see photos here.
Current discussions are ongoing regarding [...]
A cyclist in Chesterfield was hit and killed by an SUV on the 12000 block of Hull St. last Thursday. Story here.
This tragedy reminds me that, until the Richmond region comes to its senses and does a better job building complete streets that accomodate multiple transportation options, those of us who bike around here [...]
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