Wednesday Afternoon Commute - Duryea Motor Wagon

Good afternoon. Tulsa is going to make a bid for the Olympics. I don't know if it's winter or summer, but I give either bid about an equal possibility of being successful. 

• At a meeting last night, DDOT formally presented plans for the 1st Street NE cycletrack. "The cycletrack will be 8 feet wide and separated from automobile traffic. Plastic bollards will handle that duty from the circle to K Street. From K to M, a 2-foot-wide precast concrete barrier will keep automobile and bicycle traffic separate. This barrier will be the same height as a standard curb."
• The Hunt opinion piece on CaBi isn't just stupid, it's sexist too.
• The SuperNoVa Survey for northern Virginia transportation is still taking comments. 
• How times change "The first recorded automobile accident involving two vehicles occurred on this date in 1896 in New York City.  Henry Wells of Springfield, Massachusetts, was driving a new Duryea Motor Wagon, the first automobile to be made and sold in the U.S.  Unfortunately, he collided with Evelyn Thomas of New York, riding a bicycle.  Thomas went to the hospital with a broken leg, and Wells spent the night in jail."
• The father of Beto O'Rourke, the new Democratic nominee for Texas' 16th Congressional District, was killed in a bicycle crash and now has a hike and bike trail named for him. Police seemed to blame the sun instead of the driver for driving too fast under dangerous conditions. 
• Ray LaHood "And we’ve put our actions behind those words with grants for complete streets initiatives, better sidewalks, and more bike infrastructure like bike-sharing programs, bike lanes, and off-road paths. The Federal Transit Administration has made it easier for commuters to access transit service by bicycle."

Comments

[antibozo]

It would be nice if any curb-shaped barrier used to separate bike from automobile facilities were sloped on the bike side. If it's got a vertical profile, it's easy for a cyclist to trip over it and fall into the traffic lane.

[todd]

Lay off Charles Hurt. I started the day as a middle-aged, fashion-challenged, out-of-shape dad and finished as a metrosexual, solely because I ride bikeshare bikes. After a few more columns, I hope to be Brad Pitt.

[Eric_W.]

Little known fact: Duryea was also an early manufacturer of bicycles as the Rouse-Duryea Bicycle Co., manufacturing Sylph bicycles. That company was probably one of the first manufacturers to put an emphasis on patent protection. See this link to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and an early Sylph Bicycle catalogue (check page 4 for details on the patent emphasis and further their discussion about why this is helpful for their agents in protecting their continued business):

http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imageGalaxy_MoreImages.cfm?book_id=SIL-038-68

[IMGoph]

antibozo: If you look at the picture I took of the diagram of a typical section of the proposed 1st Street NE cycletrack, you'll see that the curbing is sloped (at least in that drawing).

[UGG Sko]

Før, er UGG Australia den nyutnevnte Asia-Pacific-regionen viktigste sa i et eksklusivt intervju med Post reporteren, vil UGG akselerere tempoet opp butikk i Kina,