a new advert in Ireland reminding car drivers to watch out for vulnerable road users….
Vulnerable Road users English on Vimeo
April 16th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | bike safety - (0 Comments)More Cycling: Good for Everyone — Not Just Cyclists
April 5th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | cycle tracks | environmental | transport - (0 Comments)Extracted from the excellent Streetsblog website.
Next time you’re just minding your own business, riding your bike, and someone drives by and shouts something at you, perhaps the best reply is to smile, wave, and say “you’re welcome.”
As Jay Walljasper at Shareable Cities reminds us today, more bicycling is good news for everyone — not just cyclists:
Even if you will never ride a bike in your life, you still see benefits from increased levels of biking. More bicyclists mean less congestion in the streets and less need for expensive road projects that divert government money from other important problems. Off-road paths, bike lanes, sidewalks and other bike and ped improvements cost a fraction of what it takes to widen streets and highways. It’s proven that bicycling and walking increase people’s health and reduce obesity, which will translate into huge cost savings for government and a boost for our economy.
Policies that are good for bicyclists actually benefit everyone on the streets. Good conditions for bicycling also create good conditions for pedestrians. And what makes the streets safer for bikes, also makes them safer for motorists.
Higher gas prices (which have topped four bucks for the third time in four years) means more Americans are looking for other ways to get around. Bikes offer people more choices in transportation. This is especially true for people whose communities are not well served by mass transportation or where distances are too far to walk to work or shopping.
Kinda ironic that these are the activities that get targeted as “money wasters” by most governments around the world.
STAY BACK behind dangerous lorries
March 27th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | bike safety | transport | Transport Department - (0 Comments)This is extracted from a recent post on the excellent London Cycling Campaign website.
A short, sharp message from Transport for London headlines their latest PR campaign warning about the danger of HGV lorries.
Thousands of handlebar leaflets are being put on bikes all over London and there will be posters re-enforcing the message.
The posters give a very quick warning to all cyclists. Beware of all lorries, staying behind is the safest option.
Being hit by a large lorry is thankfully rare but always serious and more likely to be fatal than any other crash. If there is a junction nearby, don’t try to overtake as lorries turn quickly, cutting across your path.
TfL’s website gives more safety tips:
Cycle sensibly and assertively to help yourself stay safe, especially at traffic lights and junctions.
- Recognise that lorry drivers may not be able to see you
- Never cycle up the left side of a lorry stopped at a junction
- Look out for lorries turning left from beside or behind you
- Don’t stop too close to the front of a stopped lorry and stay away from the lorry’s front near side. If a lorry comes up behind you, move forward enough to ensure you are in the driver’s field of vision
- Take up a visible position at lights or advanced stop lines: three metres out in front and not by the left kerb or very close to the lorry
- Behind a lorry is often the safest place to be. When you need to overtake a large lorry, do so on the right-hand side, so that the driver can see you
TfL links to London Cycling Campaign’s advice for staying out of the lorry risk zone.
They also link to our Safer Cycling Code and the See Me, Save Me campaign for reducing lorry danger.
Lorry Drivers also targeted
Transport for London is keen to point out that it is also targeting lorry drivers. – The HK Government does not even target car drivers, but it would be a great and necessary step for them to also target lorry drivers.
There are press campaigns in the truckers’ magazines, as well as a webpage for drivers.
They will be putting on information events at channel ports and lorry service areas, aimed at drivers heading for London. – This kind of informational event is perfectly possible on Hong Kong also, around the container ports and at the road crossings from mainland china.
Rethinking the Automobile (with Mark Gorton) on Vimeo
March 9th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | general cycling - (0 Comments)It’s a bit long, but worth watching if you want to imagine what Hong Kong streets could be like..!
最新一期有關啟德發展的｢啟德新里程｣的第八期通訊 (2012年3月)中，提出使用高架單軌列車作為區內的主要連接交通工具，也提到路面環保公共交通工具，包括超低硫柴油巴士（歐盟五期排放標準）和液化石油氣小巴，可是對早前和團體討論過會在區內建單車徑以方便踏單車在區內作連接的方案仍然是隻字不提。
啟德作為全新發展的區域，完全可以在開始規劃時便把單車這環保交通工具放在規劃圖之上，可是現在的發展看不到是這樣。
香港一定不可以錯失這個在巿區建設環保單車徑的黃金機會，在啟德這小區內，單車的效率完全可以比得上甚至遠超過任何一種交通工具。其環保表現，使任何用超低硫柴油、液化石油氣及電力的交通工具自慚形穢，其在不應忽略它在交通上的作用及貢獻。
Buses must carry folding bikes
February 28th, 2012 | Posted by in transport | transport | Transport Department | uncategorised - (1 Comments)Under renewal terms for franchises beginning 2013, currently held by New World First Bus, Long Win Bus and Citybus on the airport and North Lantau network, passengers must be allowed to bring foldable bicycles on board.
(Reported in SCMP, 28 Feb 2012. But we are not sure where that news came from. Will post here when we find it.)
Amen! … – This Big City + 城事
February 28th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | transport | transport - (0 Comments)
“climate does not always deter cyclists”
February 22nd, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | transport - (0 Comments)There’s a interesting short post on the Cityfix blog about what factors encourage people to walk and cycle more, and it turns out that climate and geography have less of an effect than supportive bike culture and bike education.
They go on to say that people are also willing to walk and bike longer than planners generally assume, and that while aesthetics along a route sometimes get more focus from planners, these considerations are actually secondary for everyday users, where distance to key destinations, connections and lack of barriers matter the most for everyday users.
In Hong Kong, we have been pushing the government for a long time to directly support cycling as a mode of transport and to properly educate drivers in particular, so as to promote a better and more healthy bike culture. With the more recent discussions about allowing more mainland cars into Hong Kong, having a thoughtful and coordinated urban plan for Hong Kong that includes pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure considerations is more essential now than ever before.
Sunday 19 Feb – action against scheme to welcome more cars
February 16th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | events - (0 Comments)This Sunday (19th February) HKCAll will support the march calling for the Government to halt the ‘Ad Hoc Quota Trial Scheme for Cross Boundary Private Cars’, which will bring more cars on to our road network, when what is needed is a thorough review of the way we use our urban space and a shift towards individual mobility – on foot and by bike. Why should 80-90% of the width between buildings be dedicated to motor vehicles, while pedestrians are squeezed into rat-alley pavements and cyclists are despised?
Hope you can join us at 3pm, outside Sogo / Great George Street in Causeway Bay. If you bring your bike, we’ll walk with the group as far as Wanchai, and then ride through Central to meet them at Tamar, to deliver our message to the government.
Event cycling details: http://www.facebook.com/events/131173233671666/
Main event FB page: http://www.facebook.com/events/383580341668077/
The march/ride is organised by Land Justice League and supported by many other groups, including Clean Air Network and Designing Hong Kong. Over the weekend, others, including Civic Party, the Democratic Party, the League of Social Democrats and the Liberal Party are taking action against this impending scheme, and highlighting the lack of sustainable urban planning, and the secretive and high-handed way it has been foisted on us.
See you on Sunday!
New threat to NT Cycle Track Network 新界單車徑網絡新威脅
January 25th, 2012 | Posted by in advocacy | cycle tracks - (1 Comments)The section of the New Territories Cycle Track Network alongside Sai Sha Road (between Sai Kung and Ma On Shan) is now scheduled for completion in 2015 (the timetable has slipped). It is one of the most anticipated, as this road is a critical link for Sai Kung residents and visitors and – notoriously – is closed to cyclists (from the Tai Mong Tsai roundabout to the restaurants in Nai Chung) on Sundays and public holidays. (It is narrow too, which in the absence of a culture of road sharing, means it can be less than pleasant to ride.)
But in worrying news, CEDD has apparently decided (or is considering) to delegate construction of a one-kilometre stretch of the cycle track, from Nai Chung to Tai Tung (map), to a developer, Sun Hung Kai, that is building in that area.
What assurances do we have about when this section will open? And about the track specification? Why is CEDD not able to retain control?
幾經推遲，政府現計劃於2015年完成沿西沙公路的新界單車網絡
同時令人擔憂的是，土木工程署已顯然決定(或考慮)將南涌與大洞(地圖)之間一公里的單車徑外判與已在該區域發展中的新鴻基。
試問誰來保證這段路段何時可以開放使用？誰來保證單車徑的建築標準？為甚麼土木工程署總要假手於人、不能保留控制權？
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