Comments on: I Borrowed A Camera And All I Got Were These Pictures

By: meligrosa

meligrosa — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:57:39 +0000

This is a great set. I agree with Adrienne, ridership has increased and riding with her has widen my points of view, as a city cyclist, riding with kids. I think there are parents out there, but the more we ride, the more we notice them and viceversa. Also the internet connects all riders that (are online) in a very beautiful way.

Cheers /from SF :D meli

By: amsterdamize

amsterdamize — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:41:56 +0000

Your research looks to be right, seen similar figures.

If your route looks anything like this, you're a lucky man :).

By: amsterdamize

amsterdamize — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:39:10 +0000

I have a very short answer: no. And there won't be. It's been established (from all sides) that helmet legislation is counter-productive. All focus is on providing safe infrastructure, traffic regulation (pro-cyclist), positive promotion. It has proven to be the solution, why change a winning concept.

I've read John Pucher's papers and it's far less than 1%, but I understand why that number gets published.

By: Steven Vance

Steven Vance — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:36:14 +0000

I wish it was safe enough for me to text and ride. I used to do it on the way to school, but that route was much less dominated by motorists.

Now my main route is the Halsted Street bike lane, Chicago's "backbone" to the bikeway network.

In my research about Dutch bicycling policy, safety levels, and bikeway innovation, I find that a bicyclist riding in the United States is five times more likely to perish than a bicyclist riding in the Netherlands. And the same bicyclist in the United States is 35-350 times more likely to be injured (35x from a study of police reports, 350x from a study of hospital visits).

By: Steven Vance

Steven Vance — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:33:18 +0000

In the United States, these twin posts are usually called pegs. If you see them they are most likely attached to BMX bicycles. Riders use them to carry friends and to perform tricks.

By: Steven Vance

Steven Vance — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:32:01 +0000

Has there been legislation? Or, an attempt to make legislation mandating wearing helmets (for any age group)?

I was researching the Dutch relationship to bicycle helmets and I found from the Making Cycling Irresistible report that only 1% of Dutch wear them.

By: amsterdamize

amsterdamize — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:14:18 +0000

Of course we're different, we're Old Europe! :)

By: amsterdamize

amsterdamize — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:13:56 +0000

You got pics, Brent? Would love to see those!

By: amsterdamize

amsterdamize — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:13:20 +0000

Thanks for that, Adrienne, no matter the nay-sayers, this process is universal, but the public discourse is often too irrational to get that through. I couldn't emphasize this enough. It's also the main rational for the 'safety by numbers' approach by Dutch authorities regarding legislating helmets.

By: amsterdamize

amsterdamize — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:41 +0000

I think you're absolutely right, tali42, and it was recently mentioned in NYC during the NY400 event: “You'll have succeeded when you see women, the elderly and children cycling in the city.”