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--- transportation:bikes [2025/07/21 03:29] – [Maintenance / Repair] timb
+++ transportation:bikes [2026/07/28 02:29] (current) – [Emergency Vehicles] timb
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 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/07/ambulances-arent-slowed-by-bike-lanes-and-traffic-calming-measures/
+==== Government ====
+== DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites ==
+July 23, 20265:00 AM ET - Joel Rose (Heard on Morning Edition)
+WASHINGTON — In the two weeks since Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy vowed to end support for "DEI bike lanes," a growing list of bike-related safety materials have disappeared from the Federal Highway Administration's website.
+Even agency staff have been left guessing about why, said a person who works in web support for agencies at the Department of Transportation. They requested anonymity because they fear retribution for speaking publicly.
+The person said FHWA staff have been asked to find, and in some cases take down, any references to bikes and bike lanes.
+"Why do you need to take down bicycle safety, of all things?" they told NPR.
+"We're not making the sites better, faster or quicker, you know, able to provide real information to the communities that use these resources," they said. "It's asinine."
+https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5900901/bike-lanes-dot-websites
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 https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a46651907/paris-closed-100-streets-to-cars-for-good/
+===== Folding Bike =====
+==The Joy of Folding Bikes
+Korny Sietsma - April 19, 2026
+I was chatting to a friend about my folding bike and I had the urge to write about it - because this falls in the category of “Things I wish I’d had decades ago”. And maybe I can encourage some others to try these wonderful devices.
+Note: I’m 3 months into a new job so blogging has taken a back seat to drinking from a firehose of new domain knowledge, new people, new tech. I’m still playing with AI-assisted coding, but at a slower pace - I do hope to blog more about this when things calm down.
+years ago I started cycling in London, commuting by train, and I used the bicycle hire scheme mis-named at the time “Boris Bikes”. It was OK but a bit of a hassle - bikes were heavy, payment was fiddly, and often the hire racks would be empty in the morning and full in the evening.
+So I followed the advice of other commuters and got this beautiful device - it cost £1000 at the time, a fair bit of money, but on a Ride to Work scheme I could pay this weekly over a year, so it was £4 a week, pre-tax, which made it quite affordable.
+https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes