April 9, 2008.
California Office of Traffic Safety Summit
San Francisco, CA.
May 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Bloomington, MN
June 23, 2009
Driving Assessment 2009
Big Sky, Montana
June 26, 2009
PRI World Congress
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 27, 2009
Day of Architecture
Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 13, 2009
Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
Phoenix, AZ.
August 12-14
Texas Department of Transportation “Save a Life Summit”
San Antonio, Texas
September 2, 2009
Governors Highway Safety Association Annual Meeting
Savannah, Georgia
September 11, 2009
Oregon Transportation Summit
Portland, Oregon
October 8
Honda R&D Americas
Raymond, Ohio
October 10-11
INFORMS Roundtable
San Diego, CA
October 21, 2009
California State University-San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center
San Bernardino, CA
November 5
Southern New England Planning Association Planning Conference
Uncasville, Connecticut
January 6
Texas Transportation Forum
Austin, TX
January 19
Yale University
(with Donald Shoup; details to come)
Monday, February 22
Yale University School of Architecture
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Friday, March 19
University of Delaware
Delaware Center for Transportation
April 5-7
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
McMurrin Lectureship
April 19
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (Organization Management Workshop)
Austin, Texas
Monday, April 26
Edmonton Traffic Safety Conference
Edmonton, Canada
Monday, June 7
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Wednesday, July 6
Fondo de Prevención Vial
Bogotá, Colombia
Tuesday, August 31
Royal Automobile Club
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, September 1
Australasian Road Safety Conference
Canberra, Australia
Wednesday, September 22
Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s
Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Program
Statewide Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wednesday, October 20
Rutgers University
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Piscataway, NJ
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre
Injury Prevention Forum
Toronto
Monday, May 2
Idaho Public Driver Education Conference
Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, June 2, 2011
California Association of Cities
Costa Mesa, California
Sunday, August 21, 2011
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Attitudes: Iniciativa Social de Audi
Madrid, Spain
April 16, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Gardens Theatre, QUT
Brisbane, Australia
April 17, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Centennial Plaza, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
April 19, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne, Australia
January 30, 2013
University of Minnesota City Engineers Association Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 31, 2013
Metropolis and Mobile Life
School of Architecture, University of Toronto
February 22, 2013
ISL Engineering
Edmonton, Canada
March 1, 2013
Australian Road Summit
Melbourne, Australia
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November 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
In other British cities such as Bristol, Bath and Swindon, motorcycles and cyclists are already both allowed in the bus lanes.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
In Newcastle on Tyne, UK, the bus lanes are called ‘no car lanes’. So, lorries, vans, taxis, and motorbikes use these lanes.
What category is an SUV? Mini-bus? Van? In Newcastle, SUVs certainly aren’t cars!
Regarding motorbikes in London’s bus lanes, the CTC is dead against it. There’s a story on their opposition in the current BikeBiz magazine, now available here http://issuu.com/intentmedia/docs/bb34_low_res (couldn’t find anything on CTC.org.uk
The London Cycling Campaign is also up in arms: http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1215
‘Course, Boris Johnson – London Mayor – is a cyclist so maybe once he gets buzzed by a motorbike in a bus lane he’ll see it’s not such a good idea?
However, he’s not been terribly pro-cycling so far, perhaps fearing a media backlash if he favoured cycling over other forms of transport.
In his politically incorrect days he wasn’t so circumspect: http://quickrelease.tv/?p=656
November 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
motorcyclists should be allowed to ride where bicyclists ride when they are on bicycles.
November 7th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Having cycled for decades in the UK before moving over here to civilization, and having shared lanes with buses and motorcycles, I have to say that I find buses are a bigger problem than motorcycles. They’re larger and about the same width as the lane. This leads to the drivers trying to pass where there simply isn’t room.
Motorcyclists, on the other hand, are at least fellow two-wheeled travellers. Some of their number are irresponsible, but in general I find them not to be a problem.
However, mixing cyclists with either motorcycles or buses is basically a bad idea. Either reduces the subjective safety of cyclists, and leads to less cycling. The UK already has one of the lowest cycling rates in the world because the conditions for cycling simply are not pleasant.
If more people are to be encouraged to cycle then cyclists need to be looked after and given space within which it is pleasant to cycle. Mixing with faster and heavier vehicles does not achieve this.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:20 am
David
What about ‘brommers’, those very fast scooter things? When I cycled in the Netherlands with my young family last year, those things used to scare us silly.
Some Dutch bike lanes seemed to let them in, others didn’t.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Bromfietsen are limited to quite a low speed, and are a small part of the traffic overall. How small depends where you live – here there are very few of them. It’s a demographic thing. They’re mostly ridden by old grannies very carefully, but in some places you’ll find quite a lot of youths have them.
They are generally not allowed on urban cycle paths, but also because of their slowness they are not allowed on interurban roads, so then they are allowed on the cycle paths.
When I first visited the Netherlands I found them a nuisance, but I think that was lack of familiarity more than anything else. I find in practice that I encounter them rarely and the riders are usually polite.
In contrast to drivers of cars, riders of bromfietsen are likely to come off as badly as any pedestrian or cyclist they might happen to have a collision with.
The Netherlands is _very_ safe place to cycle. In fact, a very safe place to live in general. Even in Amsterdam, the busiest place and where there are a relatively large number of brommers, they don’t really feature in the bike accident deaths as you’ll see here:
http://www.tobysterling.net/2007/12/bike-accident-deaths-in-amsterdam-and.html