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From the Headlines
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From the Headlines, SBC Projects
Streets as temporary public spaces
Streets as we know them are not fully public spaces. High priority is given to cars and little to any other potential users, generally in the interest of maximum speed. New York City has taken a page from other cities by giving temporary priority to nonmotorized street use with its first successful Summer […]
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Education, From the Headlines
Bike Safety Eve
SBC Board member Eve Seibert stands tall in today’s bike safety article from the Savannah Morning News.
Stories abound these days about fuel prices getting more people back on their bikes and the need for education to get them safely through streets that were not designed with them in mind. Some good links are included […] -
From the Headlines
SMN on Bike Commuting (again)
Today’s Savannah Morning News has another article on commuting to work on a bike. This story covers two north Georgia bicycle commuters, though everything except the hills has also been noted previously about locals.
The focus, as it tends to be of late in these stories, is on gas prices, though they do give a shout […]
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Education, From the Headlines
Watch out for bumper stickers
By the time we see them it’s too late, but here is an interesting study of the relationship of bumper stickers (which this researcher refers to as territory markers) and the tendency to road rage from the Washington Post. Even more interesting was that the nature of the message did not affect the behavior and […]
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