Initially implemented in 2015, the SUMP seeks to promote mobility that is less dependent on the car and more inclined towards sustainable alternatives. such as public transport, #bicycles and #pedestrian mobility.
City of Thousand Oaks: Happy National Biking Month
Did you know May is National Bike Month? ✨🚴♂️ Celebrate this month by planning a safe bike route with your neighbors to get your children to and from school. Learn more by visiting http://walk2schoolto.org/bikes!
“I’m wondering if something subliminal has happened after reading Bicycling Monterey. I’ve been riding the Rock Island Greenway Trail for the last week and a half. Just a wonderful and beautiful ride! It’s not Monterey, California, but a real gem for Peoria, Illinois.”—Richard Coers
This crossing is where a cyclist was hit 2 days ago by a b-double truck while crossing with a green light.
The cyclist was told he is unlikely to ever be able to walk again.
The safety of this crossing relies on truck drivers turning on to a motorway on-ramp to expect and look for cyclists and for cyclists to know that trucks will be doing that while cyclists have a green light.
The most important take away is just how little space 16 cyclists take up while waiting at the lights. It's barely noticeable. It always seems like there are lots of cars, but when you count them there are actually very few.
You need really large numbers of cyclists before they're generally visible.
It's no wonder people say 'nobody uses the bike lanes' because if you're not actually counting it feels like nobody is.
Two more spiels from regular columnists Mad Mel, best known for hating everything British (while living in Israel) and Crampton who struggles to write anything without directions from the top.
The bike shops I've applied to have offered the same as I was making at #REI or better. Except one yesterday offered me less and no other benefits and then seemed shocked when I asked about healthcare. The owner seemed to care about his employees, but was also confused about not being able to find anyone. I get that bike shops as a business model just don't work in the U.S., but where do places like this expect to find workers with no rent to pay or other bills at all?
@robryk@sanedragon oh I love that idea! I would love to see something like that around here where buyers know that a mechanic has looked it over and sellers get the benefit of more buyers browsing all at once!
have mechanics to answer questions (for example, it's sometimes not obvious if a bike can take panniers),
try to figure out if any of the bikes are stolen beforehand,
deal with actually selling the bike so the seller doesn't need to be there the whole day (they just drop off the bike in the morning and pick up money or bike in the evening),
have some sort of setup where you can take one of the bikes for a test ride.
In general it seems to me that a large part of the reason why that feels very nice (from a buyer's perspective at least) is that they remove incentives to be dishonest, so that everyone taking part can just be calm, trusting, and assume the same of others and won't be harmed by that. On the other hand, I think that a large reason why this became a major thing (there are nonspecialized flea markets and you can buy/sell bikes there too) is in large part that it's very hassle-free for sellers.
Regarding the place, Zurich has a few squares in the city center, which tend to get used for such things (I'm actually not sure how that works formally tbh). Sadly that's probably one of the larger problems with setting something like that up in the US (or am I very off?).
To give you a order of magnitude estimate, there is one such flea market organized every month Spring-Autumn in Zurich (pop. ~700k city, ~1.5M agglo) and I'd estimate that there is a bit below 1000 bikes there ~each time.
It’s day 3 and I’m so tired. I’m never again going away for holidays without our own car. Flying puts to much pressure on me having to drag and carry the excessive luggage. I’m much more comfortable with the family taking a flight and me driving alone for 17-20 hours straight with all the unnecessary things and so useful and wanted #BICYCLES…
"For residents of #Paris and the inner suburbs, however, #publicTransport is the main motorized mode. It is also the leading regional mode for going to work and for going to study. Then, cycling clearly established itself in Paris. Parisians use #bicycles more than #cars."
First day doing a full grocery shop with all four panniers on the bike! I also found the absolute best way to do the shopping by attaching them to the cart! The lady bagging at the checkout line thanked me for making things so easy when I wheeled the cart over to her and asked me who made bags designed to go on grocery carts because she wanted some!