Online voting is now open for the People Powered Movement Photo Contest by the Alliance for Biking and Walking. Cast your vote now for the best photos of people using bike-ped infrastructure, and enjoying the benefits of biking and walking.
The purpose of the contest is to help build the Alliance’s online photo library, a repository of free, high-quality images for grassroots organizations to use on their websites, etc. Anyone who produces good communications materials knows how hard it is to find exactly the right picture to illustrate their web articles, newsletters, flyers, etc. Flickr and Creative Commons licensing are great, but unless photos are created with a purpose in mind, they’re rarely optimal for serving that purpose.
Need a great photo of some properly placed sharrows? A road diet treatment of an arterial road? A well-designed, well-lit crosswalk? Some kids walking to school in a “walking school bus?” Hopefully you’ll be able to find it here. Cast your vote, and help The Alliance pick the best ones.
The study assumed a fully loaded tractor-trailer at 80,000 pounds, and a typical passenger car at 4,000 pounds. That’s 20 times difference in weight, but the wear and tear caused by the truck is exponentially greater.
Food for thought: a bicycle and rider at 200 pounds is the same 20 times less heavy than a 4000 pound passenger car. Similarly, the wear and tear caused by that bike and rider would be exponentially less than a passenger car’s.
Virginia has already figured out that it’s cheaper to move trucks off our highways and onto trains, than to support those trucks on our roads. Let’s also think about getting motorists out of their cars. Wide shoulders, wide outer lanes and bike lanes, and off-road paths and trails for bicyclists may seem like extra expense, but they’re cheaper than supporting the car trips they can eliminate.
The League of American Bicyclists (aka Bikeleague, LAB) has announced the addition of Jeffrey Lynne of Boca Raton, FL, to its board of directors. We assume this is to replace Region 3 representative Bruce Rosar of Cary, NC, who died tragically in a bike crash last July. Region 3 includes AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN, and VA. (That’s us!)
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