tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post4481898209207334320..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: (Harrisonburg, Pay Attention) The Wonders of City Bike SystemsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-33399351894195085612009-01-31T14:31:00.000-05:002009-01-31T14:31:00.000-05:00chiggins,Thanks for the tip. I checked it out and...chiggins,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the tip. I checked it out and it appears that smartbike run by Clear Channel One is the first such system in the US. They operate the ones in several European cities including Rennes, France and Barcelona, Spain. It is a self-rental system with locks on the parking sites, with many scattered around downtown D.C.<BR/><BR/>So, Harrisonburg, VA can be second in the US.<BR/><BR/>BruceMcF,<BR/><BR/>Of course, not all bicyclists obey the law all the time.<BR/><BR/>media,<BR/><BR/>I am a big fan of Dirk Helbing's models. Lately he has gotten into looking at self-forming patterns in urban pedestrian flows.Barkley Rosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13114257724762074636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-9413715837171451842009-01-31T12:21:00.000-05:002009-01-31T12:21:00.000-05:00i think the older method used in harrisonburg area...i think the older method used in harrisonburg area---the buggies and horses---is preferable-- especially for their effect on what transportation economists term 'traffic calming'. <BR/><BR/>Dirk Helbing has even shown you can generate solitons with this method, which are useful for research (and perhaps that city m might volunteer to be part of a research trial?). others find bose-einstein condensates in traffic. (i guess one can keep going...or, with mckinsey to the frictionless flows of world finance (sans tobin tax))<BR/><BR/> (course, other things heat up ('road rage'), so there is, by Noether's theorem a conservation law for calm (in the long run we're all dead) but you can allus call talk radio to let off steam---an example of 'supply creates its own demand' or 'ricardian equivalence'.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-80589290736714930712009-01-31T11:16:00.000-05:002009-01-31T11:16:00.000-05:00The problem with bikes coming up and passing turni...The problem with bikes coming up and passing turning cars on their right is either a problem in poor training of cyclists or poor design of cycle lanes, so that they continue all the way to an intersection to the right of a turn lane.<BR/><BR/>As a regular cycle commuter, I can say categorically that cars do not ever have to worry about hitting me while making a right turn, because the law for vehicles of whatever type in Ohio is not to pass on the right hand side of another vehicle.BruceMcFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08502035881761277885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-76976358528579183952009-01-31T02:47:00.000-05:002009-01-31T02:47:00.000-05:00SmartBike in DC.SmartBike in DC.chigginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515259782735086616noreply@blogger.com