I just ordered this Birdie alarm device because a dangerous-by-design feature has recently been added along the multiuse path in the parks in my city that creates specific new vulnerabilities especially for women and girls […]
Tag: NACTO
We shouldn’t have to beg, especially now
Officials in the metro-Atlanta suburb-city where I live know that unprotected, too-narrow bike lanes that don’t meet NACTO guidelines for speed and volume (such as what’s about to be installed here) are the wrong answer […]
Yet another email to city hall
For what it’s worth — here’s yet another in a long line of emails I’ve sent to my local city hall over the past decade (some of which I’ve featured on my blogs as well) […]
Truth?
Truth? This kind of bike ride* is not my idea of a good time. But after the past week seeing a wide range of very sick people while helping my mother in the hospital**, I’m […]
Multiuse paths for “commuters”
Here’s what it looks like to “commute”* on busy Ashford Dunwoody Road in the self-proclaimed “family friendly” metro-Atlanta suburb-city of Dunwoody, Georgia. Please note (and expand your definition if you haven’t already done so) that […]
A gift to your future self
This is a senior riding a bike in the suburb-city where I live, on a main road that is one of the flattest and most direct to many places but which has either too-narrow unprotected […]
Maybe they’ll listen to Mother Nature
My metro-Atlanta suburb–city won’t listen to a mother when she says that roads are unsafe for the majority of its citizens to ride their bikes. Tilly Mill. Pointy the Bike Lane. I could go on […]
New standards
I see on the latest paving schedule for my metro-Atlanta suburb-city (which is kind of my city hall’s local Bible) that a significant part of this main road (which leads to a shopping center and […]
