pedantsamaritan

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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
Here's an article with some comments on Denmark: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists... For my own reference as much as others: Florida study on rates for people drivin
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
Leading Pedestrian Interval is what NYC calls the getting ahead of cars. https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/infrastructure/leading-pe... People riding bikes will be able to follow LPIs at intersections t
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
May 2019's NYC Cycling in the City [0] provides some overview. About 12% of New Yorkers ride a bike several times per month (higher than I expected). There are automated bike counters in certain places (e.g. bridge crossings), but I ha
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
in addition to GP/sibling's reasons: (d) I enjoy the activity of walking or biking or the relaxation of reading or sleeping over driving a car most of the time (e) cars are expensive (average TCO is $8k per year). That's mult
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
> This sounds like a hassle for anyone trying to use gps on their phones I think safety is more important than avoiding hassle. I think someone touching their phone for navigation is distracted from driving. Their eyes are away from the
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
Wikipedia Current Events portal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is 40K for me with cached data.
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
(from November, 2008)
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
NYC has open crash data too: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-Motor-Vehic... From mid 2012 to mid 2019, there were 940 reports of a crash with a bike as the primary vehicle and 1+ pedestrians injured. I
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
> Paved streets are needed Not all pavement costs are equal. A study found road damage proportional to the 4th power of weight [0]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AASHO_Road_Test
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
What specific style of road design are you talking about? There are a variety of bike lanes with various compromises. I've seen DOT presentations consider the situation, not pushing a certain design at all costs. There are multiple met
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I enjoyed the survey that the book _Traffic_ by Tom Vanderbilt provided in the traffic engineering space. Many of the topics discussed in the comments I see here are discussed in the book.
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by pedantsamaritan 8y ago
I imagined Lembas Bread to be like ration bars (e.g. datrex, sos, etc)
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by pedantsamaritan 8y ago
From the math I've seen, bicycling is 1 order of magnitude lower CO2 emission than driving. Here is one source https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/how-much-co2-does-cycli... I was surprised it wasn't a