Post any interesting links in the comment section.
Local
- Tucson’s uptick in pedestrian deaths: Distractions a common theme
- Tucson 9th in Nation for Commutes by Bike
National
- CPSC seeks comments on bicycle helmet test requirements
- Athletes Chased By Technology In The Sport Of Anti-Doping
- Bicycling improvements no longer an uphill ride
- Yes, you can bike to work
- For bike commuters, AAA to the rescue
- Salt Lake City cyclists don formal attire for annual Bike Prom
- Would You Pay $300 for a Bicycle Pump?
- Bicycle Commuting Stats Surge, Still Pretty Pathetic
- Bicycling Is Now The Fastest Growing Method Of Commuting To Work
- Bike tracker clocks up 42000 trips in two weeks
- Bike to Work Day marred by another Wiggle police sting
- Majority of Citi Bike users are men: study
- San Diego Claims Space for Biking With Its First Road Diet
- Why noted Advocates will not renew their LAB memberships for 2014
- Bikes, camera, action! Amgen tour experiments with on-bike cams
International
- Madrid’s electric bikes: Life-changer or death sentence?
- Saddle up and discover a new way to explore Dublin’s sights
Moments ago The Red Star Bureau of Effective Behavior found this,
Signal Detection
at:
http://www.cyclistview.com/signaldetection/index.htm
NB: the info is circa 2008, but probably still good for the Old Pueblo…
Camera detection is pretty haphazard….the pucks worked well, but how many cyclists even know they are there. (They were freebies, anyway, so we’ll not see any more of those)
West bound University at 4th Ave is most annoying. Camera only picks up bikes if they’re in that left turn lane(to insure streetcar detection). Continuing west, you just have to crash it. That position has a leading-left signal and no one knows it…..drivers scowl when bikes go left and east bound still has red. That leading left is too short for streetcar to clear the intersection. East bound sits in green while streetcar is still blocking it. There’s more, but I’d have to be on the payroll.
@zz Every Sunday I run the light at Tucson Mall and Stone that allows you to cross to Tohono Tadai. You’d just sit there until a car came if you waited and believe me, I have.
Mtn Bike lane at Grant Rd heading south. Will somebody please please please set up a sting operation there. Every time I go through there with queued traffic at the light somebody uses the bike lane as a right turn lane.