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Coasting to a Civil Street

2/27/2012

 
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Since I started the Civil Streets website, I’ve been doing my best to obey traffic lights on my bicycle. Sometimes it’s tedious, but not as often as you might think. 

I bike on the same streets and I know the traffic light cycles pretty well.  I can tell what the light is doing several hundred yards before I get to it.  This allows me to time the light just right.  So rather than be standing at the light waiting for it to change I hit every light perfectly.  

This coasting strategy can easily apply to car drivers too.  Speed is a key element in accidents.  See a red light ahead?  Just chill out and go as slow as you can.  You will turn your car in to a traffic calming device. save some gas, reduce your accident risk all at the same time.  

Do you have any civil street strategies? Please email them to me.  I will highlight the good ones on the blog.

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New York City-- Uncivil Street

6/20/2011

 
This is a great video of just about everyone acting badly.  I love the box-graphics that show the conflicts.  Bicycles appear to be extra bad-- but really pedestrians are jay-walking and cars are routinely nudging in to crosswalks full of pedestrians.

3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.

Civil Streets & Respect

5/13/2010

 
I was really heartened to get an email from an advocate in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn.  They're looking to make the streets safer for pedestrians-- especially mothers with kids.  They want to buy some stickers.  There are two really cool things about it:

1. I wanted this site to be truly multi-modal and not linked to any particular geographic area. The Bay Ridge folks are concerned about speeding traffic and I'm concerned about the public image of bicyclists and this site works for both of us.  At it's roots this is about treating each other better.  With respect.

2. The second cool thing is that they asked if we had a poster that they could ask shops to post in windows.  Great idea!  The idea of the sticker was to post it on bikes, bags and strollers-- be small enough to be cool and large enough to see.  The beauty of the poster is that anyone could print an 11 X 17 and hang it in a store window.  Low cost/ effective.  What's not to like.

In the next week or so, we'll upload a poster that you can use

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    Mark Chase, co-founder Civilstreets.org

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