Reason number 467 to transport your young kid around on a bike: instead of having to haul them, against their will, all the way back to the car at the end of a playground session, the transportation can come to exactly where they are and you can just scoop them up #BikeTooter#cycling#bike#parenting
"..I expected to see a bunch of groggy children. Instead, the atmosphere was more like a festival. Kids sported fluorescent bike helmets with mohawks. Girls zoomed around their parents in princess costumes. One mom distributed doughnut holes to waiting children. Every few minutes, more cargo bikes arrived ferrying very young children while older siblings cruised alongside.
Then the music turned on. Someone started a bubble machine. Finally, a cry went up, and our impromptu caravan began rolling down one of San Francisco’s leafy residential streets." #BikeTooter#BikeBus#education#school#cycling
"...This is a “bike bus”: a convoy of parents and children who ride to school, picking up kids along the way. While the concept has existed for years, a “bicibus” in Barcelona popularized the idea where it spread like wildfire through videos on social media in 2021. Thousands of parents (and kids) eager to step away from their vehicles have jumped on board. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again...." #bicycling#cycling#BikeTooter#school#kids#climate
while variable, the new bike lane infrastructure on 73rd ave NE in Kenmore varies from acceptable to outstanding with the vast majority very good and better. a couple of places drop to paint-stripe-and-road-turtle but they aren’t long, it’s reasonable where they do, and the lanes are still wide and clearly marked.
The new sidewalk areas also seem to be good quality, but I was paying less attention.
I saw a couple of other bikers, this is being discovered quickly.
The bike part of the bike and sidewalk improvements on 73rd Ave NE in Kenmore are complete! There's still a little work to be done on the sidewalks, but it's good enough for me for now.
Also some updates to bike shop locations (deleting some in Seattle; adding some in Greater Northshore) and a word correction in the MEGAMAP box.
I’m really proud of my restraint commenting on #ottawa Reddit but my fucking god these “I’m a cyclist and all you other cyclists are breaking the law and therefore all the mad drivers are justified in wanting to kill us” posts are going to be the end of me. Goddamn these in particular make me so ragey. Yes, fine, be kind to people also not driving but I do not care what you do to make yourself safer. Period. Fuck the rules made for people driving #onpoli#ottbike#biketooter
I'd like to push to install these ground anchors in any repaved or new parking spaces, and make those parking spaces usable by bikes. Why not? You're devoting public space to vehicle storage, make it work for our vehicles, too. Cars can roll right over them if they're not in use. Put 3-5 of them in each space and you make far more efficient use of the space, too. #BikeTooter
I am in a little corner of France that is almost Switzerland and almost Germany. This evening the street I’m staying on was closed off for some local time trial action. ‘Tis the season. #BikeTooter#TourDeFrance#TouringFrance
Today's delivery run by bike. All the parcels that I send begin their journey by bike, and are taken for a short journey on the cycling infrastructure which exists between my home and the post office.
In this example there's a single direction cycle-path which becomes bidirectional at the junction just ahead of my bike. The reason why this happens is to allow visitors to the shops behind the hedge on the right to make their journey without having to cross the road twice. Bidirectional cycle-paths substantially improve cyclist safety and convenience when they prevent road crossing in this way.
Here’s a map that shows the area where the Provincetown Select Board is proposing to ban people from riding bikes but allow people
to drive cars. It encompasses Commercial St through the center of town from the library all the way to the Canteen restaurant. You can read our statement about the proposal and our suggestions for ways to improve safety on the street: https://bikescape.org/pedal-blog/dont-ban-bikes#Provincetown#CapeCod#SafeStreets#traffic#mapoli#bicycle#cycling#BikeTooter
I am slowly getting aware of the powerful concept of multi-mode bicycling with the #Brompton. I can just hop on any local bus wherever there is a bus stop. This extends the range which I can reach within a weekend tour tremendously. I started my recent three-day tour in Stockholm, took a bus to Norrtälje (2.30 €), then took another bus out to the island of Björkö, which cost me another 2.30 €. After 3 hours I was in the middle of the beauty of the Archipelago. (1/2)
“I’m making a whole city! There are roads and tracks and roads crossing over the tracks! And buildings!” There are also many bus stops and a museum. (Grateful for washable markers) #urbanism#transit#PublicTransport#trains#bike#BikeTooter