Tour de Links - It's Been A While

So I'm dispensing, this week, with the wacky headings and just dumping a lot of links.

• Submit a film for the Bicycle Film Festival
• Bike lanes have a higher labor:material ratio than other road projects and so installing them creates more jobs per dollar. I wonder if that includes the jobs used to manufacture the materials.
• Remember this story about how some patients who couldn't walk due to Parkinson's could ride a bike? That fact could be a tool in diagnosing whether one has regular or atypical Parkinson's. "asking about bike-riding could save money and reduce the burden for patients, said the researchers at the Parkinson Center Nijmegen."
• The UK's War against Motorists is over. [Turns out the price of motoring had been going down the whole time.] Meanwhile, San Francisco's war goes on.
• Dallas is considering a speed limit for bicycles on the Katy Trail, despite the fact that most cyclists don't have speedometers. The head of BikeDFW writes that the trails aren't always crowded and were paid for with transportation dollars. 
• Don't worry, our trails are safe, because most of them are interstate (sorry W&OD).
• The largest infrastructure project ever built in Kane County, IL includes a sweet bike/ped bridge (pictured). 
• The House Committee on Infrastructure and Transportation membership.
• The budget bill that died in the Senate included $500,000 for Denver's bike sharing program. Without a cost/benefit analysis, Tina Korbe of Daily Caller is sure it's not affordable. Meanwhile Fort Lauderdale is moving forward on its own 200-bike bike sharing system.
• A New York State Senator proposes a "law that would require the state's mandatory five-hour driver education class to include ways to avoid accidents with bicyclists, skaters, skateboarders and any other mode of non-vehicle transportation."
• The Denver wealth manager who hit a cyclist from behind, then left the scene and blamed the crash on apnea and the leather smell in his car pleaded guilty getting one year of probation and 90 days in jail on two  misdemeanor charges. More. And about the new car smell defense - which sounds like a David E. Kelly plot line. 
• A New York Times Op-ed artist tries to make fun of bike lanes. Too bad he stole the joke (we call that hack).
• Bikes can increase productivity in Africa, says SRAM founder. Aside: The car mechanic in my village had never seen a bike before, but he could always fix it - and I only brought it to him when I couldn't. That guy was amazing. One of the interviewers seems to think that bikes are toys.
• Biking makes teen girls smarter. 
• Are drivers worried that cycling is becoming cool and driving is not?
• Dealing with rogue cyclists is only a small part in making streets safer. "Last year, more than 75,000 crashes occurred on city streets. Less than 4 percent involved a bicycle." and "Pedestrian safety is on the rise as well because of the bike lanes, not in spite of them."

Comments

[Joe D]

I couldn't help but notice that in that "op-art" piece, the bike lane was the only one completely blocked by a truck. Figgers.