Links: Bikes, transit and death on America’s roads

Posted on July 24th, 2007 – 11:49 PM
By Roadguy
  • You can’t bike to the Lindbergh terminal at the airport, but if you do, there’ll be a bike rack waiting for you starting next month. For a Strib story on MSP and bikes, including a visit with the airport bicyclist who ended up in court, click here. (And to see what the new racks will look like, click here.)
  • Doom on the Greenway? Alert reader Mary points us to this forum thread on the 28th Street crossing that will exist once the bridge over Hiawatha opens. Mary writes: Getting ready for the Midtown Greenway Slaughter at the new 28th Street crossing, we have a thread running on Mpls Bike Love. The idea is that we need a “Pre-Memorial” fund for the dead cyclists, that could be used to buy a decent traffic light system, so that the dead cyclists wouldn’t actually have to be dead to get their safe crossing.
  • Behind on transit? A former Strib writer who’s now at a think tank says Minnesota should do more; click here.
  • Doom on America’s roads? The United States is “becoming comparatively one of the most dangerous places to drive in the industrialized world,” according to a New York Times story. Click here for the cheery news.

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