Cycling Facilities -- Good, Bad, Ugly & Dangerous
(19) 'Staple'. Good bike parking
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(20) Bike at parking meter
Sign says 'small vehicles only'
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(21) Wheelbender bike rack. The bench is a better fixture
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(22) No turn except bikes. Excuses cyclists from traffic calming.
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(23) Crack in road seam -- fall hazard.
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(24) Dangerous drain grate. Good lane position avoids problem but beginners usually ride too far right.
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(25) Crack in road at seam by drain grate -- serious fall hazard
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(26) Crack patched the day after author reported this hazard.
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(27) Safer seam around drain grate. Cracks here are less likely to trap a bike wheel.
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(28) Marked vehicle detector
Encourages compliance
with traffic laws
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(29) Detector & marking in wrong place -- encourages bad lane position. Better to mark detector in middle of lane under car.
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Bill Hoffman photo
(30) Vehicle detector stencil
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(31) Marked detector
Victoria BC Canada
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(32) Sign tells where to stop
Nice try -- but back to drawing board. Better language would be:
"STOP HERE TO ACTUATE SIGNAL"
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John Schubert photo
(33) Marked detectors at NASA Glenn -- a Cyclist Friendly Community
Glenn encourages best practices
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(34) Store lacks good parking
Cyclist locked to garbage can. Large image, 38 kb
(35) Indoor parking
"Paper training" the bike
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(36) Bicycles Prohibited
This from a former "Bicycle Friendly Community"