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Portland installs their first bike box
Portland has always been an extremely bike-friendly city. It looks to me like they're taking new steps to implement a project called bike boxes. These "boxes" look like color-coded areas within car lanes that add a good bit of padding to the area directly before intersections. Check out this photo for a good illustration (more photos): Flickr photo by BikePortland.org PortlandOnline describes them thusly: The bike box is an intersection safety design to prevent bicycle/car collisions, especially those between drivers turning right and bicyclists going straight. It is a green box on the road with a white bicycle symbol inside. ...
Officially an Illinois driver
Jacqui and I went to the DMV on Friday in a crazy March blizzard. I'm not kidding guys, this was probably the worst snow conditions I've been in all winter. The snow was thick and the wind was blowing HARD. We did, however, get in and out of the DMV in only about an hour, which was nice. With no studying, we were both missed a single question and walked out with our new licenses:
by Clint Ecker
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