News: July 2012

The pockmarked streets of downtown Havana aren't very bike friendly, but that isn't stopping Felix Guirola from trying to ride into the record books. The 48-year-old Cuban said he's built an 18-foot-high bike - taller than a one-story building - and has asked Guinness World Records to recognize his feat. Franklin Reyes/AP Felix Guirola welds a piece for his home-made bike. Guirola has been riding tall since 1983, when seeing a tandem bike inspired him to build up instead of out. "I've never been much of a cyclist, but I really like riding tall bikes," Guirola told the AFP newswire this week. "I don't know if this interests Cubans, but it interests me. This is my hobby." From Daily News

In approximately 1975, the then Christchurch City Council, in conjunction with the National Roads Board, marked a cycle lane up to the intersection limit lines on the Kilmarnock Street approach to the Deans/Kilmarnock intersection in Christchurch.  In 1978 the Ministry of Transport produced a draft standard for the design of cycle facilities. The draft was approved by the National Roads Board for a trial that was conducted by the Traffic Committee of the Road Research Unit, in 1980.The trial involved an investigation into the operating and attitude effects of mid-block cycle lane markings, cycle symbols and cycle route signage.  Although the cycle lane at the Deans/Kilmarnock intersection was part of the overall package of cycle facilities under investigation, it was not specifically studied for behavioural, safety or attitude effects. The report simply stated “the provision of a...

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