The Oregonian
January 2, 2015
[…] A 51-year-old woman who was bicycling through Southeast Portland on a summer night has filed a $306,000 lawsuit against the city, claiming a depression in the road made her crash. […]
Department of Transportation USA
January 27, 2015
Mark Rosekind
Many Americans are familiar with NHTSA’s work to prevent deaths and injuries on America’s roads. Just last week at the DC Auto Show, for example, Secretary Foxx looked back at more than 50 years of lives saved –more than 600,000—by technology use, and he looked ahead at incorporating new technology to prevent crashes. But you might not know the degree to which we’ve worked to help other countries improve their roadway safety efforts and how their experiences are now informing our own work here in the U.S. […] READ MORE >>
Adventure Cycling
[…] Please ask the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to allow bicycle access on I-40 between Needles and Barstow. Bicycle travelers currently do not have legal access to bicycle this 144-mile section of Adventure Cycling’s Bicycle Route 66. […]
Cycling Weekly UK
January 27, 2015
[…] After a lengthy consultation Mr Johnson signed off on the ‘Crossrail for bikes’ after 84 per cent of the 21,500 respondents were in favour of the plans. […] The Mayor has been under pressure to improve London’s cycling infrastructure in the wake of a spate of deaths on the capital’s roads. […]
U.S. Bike Route System
Learn about calculating economic benefits of cycling infrastructure, bike touring, and how bike friendly – pedestrian friendly cities help cyclists / pedestrians and merchants. View some of this research that has already been done to see what cycling can do for everyone.
[…] Several states have commissioned surveys, reports, and summaries of the economic effects of bicycle travel, while several other such reports have looked at the success of cycling investments abroad. […]
January 14, 2015
WNYC News
[…] “As a result of all that hard work, traffic fatalities were down 12% — or, to put it another way, the city saved 35 lives last year. […] But as impressive as a 12% decrease may be, if we continue that rate, the city won’t get to zero deaths until 2064.” […]
[…] La Conchita Bike Path on Hwy 101. This instant tourist attraction transformed a stretch of coastal highway from a terrifying ride on the shoulder of a busy highway to a wide and comfortable bike path. […]
January 9, 2015
Washington Post
[…] If you’ve ever biked in Portland, or biked through Washington with someone from Portland, it certainly seems as if social norms about traffic laws vary from city to city. Marshall, for example, has observed cyclists in Portland police each other in ways I don’t often see in D.C. […]
Wired
12/18/14
[…] The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO dropped a 57-page alpha white paper on us, noting he didn’t really have the time to build a revolutionary transit system that would shoot pods full of people around the country in above-ground tubes at 800 mph.
Fortunately for futurists and people who enjoy picking apart complicated plans, an El Segundo, California-based startup has taken Musk up on his challenge to develop and build the Hyperloop. […]
Wired
December 16, 2014
[…] Meter-resolution maps may be good enough for GPS-based navigation, but autonomous cars will need maps that can tell them where the curb is within a few centimetres. They also need to be live, updated second by second with information about accidents, traffic backups, and lane closures. […]
