A mash-up called Ride the City uses Google maps to find the safest bicycle routes from one point to another across New York City.
This is sort of the answer to the petition posted earlier this year at the Google Maps “Bike There” blog that seeks Google to include a “bike there” choice on all its maps in big cities.
The only difference is that it only works in New York City, and it wasn't created by Google but by three cyclists — Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/26/ride-the-city-maps-safe-bike-routes-across-new-york-city/
A Google maps mash-up to find the safest bike route from one point to another in New York City. Ride the City.
See “Ride the City maps safe bike routes across New York City“
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/26/ridethecity/
Wouldn't it be cool if the Vuelta a Espana boiled down to a mano a mano contest between Carlos Sastre, winner of this year's Tour de France, and Alberto Contador, the 2007 Tour winner who was unable to defend his title in 2008?
After winning in the Tour de France in 2007, Contador and others on Team Astana were disappointed to learn they had been uninvited to the Tour de France. The team channeled its anger into winning the three-week Giro d'Italia.
Now the Vuelta a Espana has released the rosters for this year's three week race, rolling out Aug. 30 through Sept. 21. Sastre's Team CSC and Contador's Astana team will both be racing …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/contador-vs-sastre-at-vuelta-a-espana/
All good bike trails must end, but some end before they ever get a good start.
Exporing some of the many bicycle trails in the Puget Sound area the past couple of summers, I've found that some bike trails begin and end in well-equipped trailheads with restrooms, drinking fountains and parking lots.
Others simply come to an abrupt end in a road culvert, padlocked gate, or a muddy trail that disappears into an overgrown right of way.
Many of these are rails-to-trails that are built on abandoned railroad beds. Rail-to-Trails Conservancy reports 1,534 completed trails covered 15,346 miles in the US ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/many-unexpected-ends-to-bicycle-trails/
An Ohio woman charged with the hit-and-run death of a Michigan bicyclist in the Tour of Scioto River Valley this spring has pleaded not guilty.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Sara Bender, 35, of Lucasville was indicted by a grand jury with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. It's a third-degree felony that can draw a one-to-three-year prison term.
Bicyclist William Crowley, 57, of Michigan was killed when he was struck from behind along Route 23 the morning of May 11 as he pedaled to meet up with the 2nd day of the TOSRV ride …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/tosrv-bicycle-fatality-motorist-pleads-not-guilty/
Thankfully no one was killed when a cab driver in Miami drove into a group of bicyclists out for a morning ride along the scenic MacArthur Causeway on Sunday morning.
The Miami Herald reports that the cabdriver apparently fell asleep at the wheel before striking the 11 bicyclists.
Six were sent to area hospitals, where one 48-year-old is listed in critical condition and undergoing surgery at a trauma center. The other five are all listed in stable condition. The five not hospitalized were treated at the scene for road rash and other minor injuries …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/asleep-at-the-wheel-miami-cabbie-hits-11-cyclists/
Overlooking Washington's Snoqualmie River Valley from Tolt Pipeline Trail. Read: “Many unexpected ends to bicycle trails.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/the-end-of-tolt-pipeline-trail/
Maybe passable for mountain bike, but definitely not road bike. See “Many unexpected ends to bicycle trails.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/end-of-the-road-for-me-on-foothills-trail/
Bicycling to a dead end on Discovery Trail in 2006 near Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. See “Many unexpected ends to bicycle trails.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/discovery-trail-dead-ends-at-a-gate/
One of several false starts and stops on the Foothills Trail through Pierce County, Washington. This one ended in a muddy trail, suitable only for mountain bikes. See “Many unexpected ends for bicycle trails.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/25/foothills-trail-sign/
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