Gov. Phil Murphy signs e-bike bill criticized by bike advocates • New Jersey Monitor

Opinion: The e-bike revolution is here. San Francisco isn’t ready for it

Bike commutes are up 52%, shared bike and scooter usage has doubled, and injuries are rising too. What the city needs isn’t a ban — it’s a backbone.

We Were Wrong About Sharrows | PeopleForBikes

It was the late 1990s and I thought we were so clever. We had just convinced the San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic to incorporate an innovative new design into its bike plan, a bold statement conveying “bikes belong” right there in the middle of the street. I had first seen a shared-use marking, or “sharrow” — a white bicycle painted directly on asphalt — in photos of Paris and Chicago, put there to help bicyclists get through intersections by indicating their path of travel. In 1993, James McKay, a bike planner in Denver, used it on a trial basis to emphasize a bicyclist’s right to ride in the middle of the lane.

Why is the Trump administration calling bike lanes ‘DEI’? | Dave Schilling

The government apparently has an issue with paths for cyclists. Take it from someone who can’t ride a bike: this makes no sense

Dissecting Doug Ford’s Bike Lane Removal Annoucement

A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

Chicago's Bike Lanes Don't Hurt Businesses, City Report Finds

As protected bike lanes face opposition in some neighborhoods, city-backed case studies found lanes in a half-dozen corridors have not contributed to a negative impact on economic activity.

ZIV position:Standardised charging system for e-bikes - ZIV – German Bicycle Industry

A standardised e-bike charging system is not currrently necessary for private charging, but could be beneficial for public charging.

This ex-Tesla employee just launched a cheap electric motorcycle - Fast Company

Zeno, a startup aimed at markets in Africa and India, makes an electric bike that outperforms gas motorcycles and costs less—so customers don’t need a green incentive to buy them.

Marking One Year Since Cycle Toronto’s Court Victory

A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

Taking imagery of bike lanes at risk and using it to help fix bike parking

We took street-level imagery on Bloor St, Yonge St, University Ave, Queen’s Park Cres, and Avenue Rd to create a digital record of bike lanes at risk from Ontario Bill 212 and to help analyze and improve bike parking

Too risky for the road but safe for schools? Rethinking smart glasses in the science classroom

This paper critically examines the governance of smart glasses in K-12 science education, using science classrooms as a case through which policy design challenges become visible. We position these wearable technologies not only as tools of pedagogical innovation but as governance challenges requiring regulatory attention. The vendors of smart glasses claim that their devices enhance real-time visualisation, support hands-free inquiry, and personalise activity. Yet, despite increased consumer availability and promotion by vendors, smart glasses are inconsistently specified in Australian school policy, unlike other high-stakes sectors such as transportation where wearable device categories are explicitly regulated. Drawing on a comparative analysis of policy associated with Australia’s K-12 mobile phones and the 2023 Victorian Road Rule Amendments “New Driver Distraction Road Rules”, this study proposes that science education requires similar anticipatory governance. Whereas the road safety framework classifies wearable technologies as potential sources of cognitive distraction and provides a stratified risk profile, device-specific restrictions, and enforcement mechanisms, we illustrate a stark contrast to the comparable provisions analysed in educational policy. This analysis identifies governance-relevant risk categories for staff, students, and schools that are not consistently addressed in the education policy texts examined, and that are difficult to standardise through discretionary, school-level interpretation alone. As such, this paper contributes to global conversations on educational justice, digital governance, and the ethical integration of emerging technologies in education.

Simon Willison on pelican-riding-a-bicycle

105 posts tagged ‘pelican-riding-a-bicycle’. My benchmark for LLMs: "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". Here's my answer to what happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?. "User …

Taking imagery of bike lanes at risk and using it to help fix bike parking

We took street-level imagery on Bloor St, Yonge St, University Ave, Queen’s Park Cres, and Avenue Rd to create a digital record of bike lanes at risk from Ontario Bill 212 and to help analyze…

ale, today › One year of cargo biking

Some random notes from my first year with an electric cargo bike, and why you should (maybe) get one

ale, today › One year of cargo biking

Some random notes from my first year with an electric cargo bike, and why you should (maybe) get one