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YouTubeWhat a coincidence that this article came out 2 days after Michael's trial on the "taking the lane" charge--showing the most dangerous street for twowheelers in the city is that stretch of High Street where the lanes are narrow. I've been biking High Street to and from work for the past 8 years and feel very safe there. The traffic moves at a moderate pace and the drivers, with rare exception, respect cyclists. If cyclists obey the traffic laws, i.e. stop at lights, don't ride between cars or up the right side of cars (where you can get "right hooked"), make sure when passing a parked car to ride far enough out that you don't get "doored," and TAKE THE LANE where the lane is narrow (most of High Street), you can ride safely and avoid being a statistic. I suspect the reason for so many collisions is that there is lots of bike traffic on High Street. Of course the more bikes we get on the streets, the safer it gets. And, of course, we need to keep educating cyclist, motorists, LEOs, prosecutors and judges about our state-of-the-art biking laws in CBus. Power to the Pedal!
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Transportation: Worst corridors to bike, walk
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doug morgan
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Posted 2 years ago # -
lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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Good work, Doug. Glad to see a positive outcome out of that.
I know Ohio Bike Federation is working hard at the State level to improve education across the board.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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MORPC REVISES REGIONAL PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE HIGH-CRASH LOCATION LIST
(Columbus-January 16, 2010) The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) recently released the top pedestrian and bicycle crash locations in the transportation planning area. Further examination revealed that while Lane Avenue, Hague Avenue and Sullivant Avenue as recently released on the list are in the top five, the top three pedestrian and bicycle crash locations as depicted on the map are:
Lane Avenue at High Street
High Street at Long Street
Broad Street at Central AvenueThe correction will be made to the regional pedestrian and bicycle high-crash list and made available to each city in MORPC’s transportation planning area. The revised list will be available on MORPC’s website at http://www.morpc.org .
Posted 2 years ago # -
cyclist II
Short North & Peach District
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Walker wrote >>
"Worst Corridors" is extremely misleading. Nice work, Dispatch.
We'd need to see some sort of assessment based on volume of pedestrian/bike traffic in those corridors compared to the total number of crashes. Obviously, you're going to have more crashes where there are more bikes/pedestrians, but that doesn't say a single thing about corridor safety.
An example (with pretend numbers):
1000 bikes per day on High Street + 10 crashes per day = 1% crash ratio
10 bikes per day on Bethel Road + 2 crashes per day = 20% crash ratio
0 bikes per day on I-270 + 0 crashes per day = 0% crash ratio
According to the Dispatch's interpretation of MORPC's data, these types of figures would mean that High Street is five times more dangerous compared to riding on Bethel Road, and that 270 is the absolute safest place to ride a bike, since all they're looking at is total number of crashes.
Yeesh.+1 What's that rattling sound? Oh it the death of newspapers!
This article is bunk.Posted 2 years ago #
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