An occasional update on items from the Velo-city.
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WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN: THE APPLE ‘BICYCLE’
Ken Ohrn was reading the Steve Jobs bio by Walter Isaacson. “It’s a fascinating foray into the life and times of Apple Computers’ co-founder. I stopped dead at page 115 and lurched for my trusty scanner.”
“During development of the first Macintosh, Steve’s reality distortion field was not quite strong enough to accomplish this name change.”
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DUH DEPT: BIKE LANES ARE FOR BIKES
From Colin Brander:
This is from Minnesota. It seems obvious, but unless there are rules in place (there are none in BC), there is nothing prohibiting this behavour…
… lawmakers at the state capitol are working on a transportation policy bill in conference committee that touches on bike safety. The measure would ban cars from parking in bike lanes or using them to pass other cars, and it would also require drivers to use turn signals when crossing bike lanes.
Also this, for those a tad hysterical over bike pumps on the bikeways:
The bike-friendly tune-up stations are also now in place on the Greenway, along Lake of the Isles and at the Wellstone Center in St. Paul.
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PROVINCIAL POLL: SUPPORT FOR SPENDING ON CYCLING
Specifically: 42% of respondents would support $75 million per year in provincial funding for bicycle paths and other investments to increase cycling in BC communities, while only 29% are opposed.
The province-wide poll was conducted by the NRG Research Group on behalf of the BC Cycling Coalition (BCCC), HUB and the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition. More here.
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NOT SO MUCH SUPPORT FOR TAXING
Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (VTPI) provides a detailed argument on that perennial topic: who is paying for what and how much – and whether it makes sense to tax cycling to pay for cycling infrastructure.
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Saw a car driving southbound in the separated bike lane on Burrard between Pacific and Harwood this past Saturday. Don’t know whether the driver was frustrated with delay and did this on purpose or whether driver was clueless.