This is just glorious. It's @notjustbikes utterly, comprehensively destroying John Forrester's arguments for vehicular cycling.

It included reading through Forrester's books, going to the 1970s studies Forrester cited, and finding he fraudulently claimed the studies said the opposite to what they actually did.

(For the unfamiliar, John opposed bike lanes and protected bike infrastructure in the US because he wanted to promote a macho masculine MAMIL cycling culture where cyclists ride like cars in mixed traffic on busy main roads. Then he whined that few people wanted to cycle, and that cycling was a niche activity few people engaged with.)

Apparently Forrester also claimed to be a cycling expert yet never actually visited The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

#cycling #Bicycle #bike #Urbanism #vehicularcycling #bicycling #UrbanPlanning
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America (Vehicular Cycling)

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Halt, nein, nicht nur die Grünen. Hinter der Paywall erfährt man:

"Auch sei die größere Unterführung, die von Autos, Bussen und Lkw genutzt wird, insbesondere für Kinder und unsichere Radfahrer keine Option. „Der Schutzstreifen ist zu schmal“, meint [der ADFC-Kreisverbandsvorsitzende] Wiemann."

"Als „absolut lebensgefährlich“ nennt ein nw.de-Nutzer diese Alternativroute."

Kann man da nicht jemanden fragen, der sich damit auskennt? John Forester oder so?

#vehicularcycling #Paderborn

@seabikeblog
while I'm fully on @notjustbikes 's side in the assessment of Forester's books (and other public statements), I think it is important to remember that it is never just the one perpetrator.

Forester would have been a nerd of the fringes of cycling without the support of the rulemakers and carbrains in the administrations of cities and states. Forester gave them, what they needed, as stated shortly in the, um, documentary.

#vehicularcycling

John Forester gets too much credit for being used as an excuse by traffic Engineers who didn't want to change anything or take responsibility for the safety of infrastructure. The basic premise that you have a right to travel safely and unmolested gets lost in the whole personal responsibility and personality cult thing that humans are so susceptible to. His book sounds like if someone who was wrong on the internet got a book deal but not an editor 🙄 #VehicularCycling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

@ai6yr at the same time, is the sidewalk safe to ride at the posted speed? I've tried some of the "protected" bike infrastructure at 20mph and I wish traffic "Engineers" would stop making John Forester right about #VehicularCycling, it's possible to have low-stress facilities that are also fast and efficient, but they apply none of the sight-stopping-distance or similar speed-vs-safety criteria that they use for carway designs, and simply treat you like wheeled pedestrians.
Montana state rep Eric Albus has proposed a bill that would require people on bikes to ride AGAINST vehicular traffic flow. 🙃 for "safety" #BikeTooter #VehicularCycling #ZeroVision

@bergamlaimerin @thijs_lucas

Jep. Gleiche Erfahrung.

In den NL Tonnenweise Autoprolls angetroffen, sobald man mal die Infrastruktur verlässt. Gefahren: Rotterdam→Nordhorn D

Dänemark ebenfalls. Gefahren:
Helsingør→Gedser.

Schweden und Finnland fand ich auch nicht prickelnd.

Was die NL und DK mE am besten zeigen: Gute Radinfrastruktur ist die Lösung. Vehicular Cycling wird nie sicher sein, solange Menschen am Steuer der Autos sind.

#motorisiertegewalt #vehicularcycling #radinfrastruktur

But even this won't help if motorists just ignore red lights at intersections.
3) What we actually need is enforcement of current rules. Illegal parking, speeding, close passes and red light violations. And also stricter regulations for things like vehicle size. Exactly the things one would naturally consider when accepting that sometimes motorists and cyclists have to share some space. #vehicularcycling

Not going to comment on the US-specifics of #vehicularcycling . Though I sometimes also wonder if there's something lost by an overly reductionist view from cycling advocacy on infrastructure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjKDM6hDJk

The Other Side of Advocacy

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I figured out #VehicularCycling! They are people who have never tried to ride on city streets with a child in a trailer, or alongside a kid getting to school, or with a disability or old age. Now it all makes sense.