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Comic Piccini opera, Redux, Ontario auditor general Env Report, Globe & Mail, May 18, 2023 |
Venal or Venial? letter to Globe, May 16, 2023 |
"Cry me a river over a few bats", Redux, Globe & Mail, May 12,2023 |
Greenbelt "Scam": Barbarian Ford invasions, Globe & Mail, May 12, 2023 |
Barbarian Ford invasions case: City of Belleville Bell Creek dvlpt, Intelligencer, April 25, 2023 |
Road building projects in Wales, UK, cancelled as climate clangers, the Guardian, Feb 14, 2023 |
Unpublshed letter to Globe, 1996 opioids revisited, February 6, 2023 |
Cathal Kelly on climate charade, Globe & Mail, January 27, 2023 |
Ontario Bill 23, letter to the Premier, and Todd Smith MPP, Nov 24, 2022 |
Canola conundrum, letter to Globe & Mail, October 2022 |
3rd (Canadian) arm of U.S. Air Pollution Health Effects Study, the Guardian, Aug 12, 2022 |
Atomic awe and Boris blight, letter to Globe, July 11, 2022 |
Your !!*^%! car, Part II, Globe and Mail editorial, July 16, 2022 |
Your !!*^%! car, Part I, Globe and Mail, June 20, 2022 |
CAPE report on fossil fuels, Globe and Mail, June 9, 2022 |
Traffic Air Pollution Health Effects report, CAPE, April 2022 |
EU Bans Toxics, the Guardian, April 2022 |
Comic Piccini opera: Ontario Auditor General Environment Report, November 2021 |
......RIP Trillium...... November 16, 2021 |
Covid-19 Parlour Sessions 2020/2021, April 1, 2021 |
Mitch Podoluk, Obituary, Globe and Mail, September 2019 |
Notice to (Big Bay) Mariners, August 2019 |
Air Head, Globe and Mail, August 2019 |
Leon Redbone, RIP, June 2019 |
Ontario Endangered Species Act at risk, letter to Rod Phillips, April 2019 |
Slide to Extinction, Chris Humphrey, letter to Globe, October 31, 2018 |
Peter Galbraith, FRCP, obituary, October 2017 |
White Pines on Death Bed, Bruce Bell, Intelligencer, July 17,2018 |
Thucydides Trap, letter to Globe, May 2018 |
Great Lakes toxics down, SUNY Oswego/Clarkson U, April 2018 |
Machine subversion of democracy, letter to Globe, April 2018 |
Air Pollution overrides Ancestral Genes, Globe, March 2018 |
Olympian Cathal Kelly, letter to Globe, March 2018 |
Environmentalists seeking unemployment, letter to Globe, February 2018 |
Less is more on Bike Lanes, National Post, January 2018 |
Tramadol, 10 years on, Globe and Mail, November 2017 |
White Stripes: Belleville bicycle lanes, letters, November 2017 |
Occupational Cancers, CCO research results, Globe and Mail, October 2017 |
Big Pharmoney and Canadian Drug Use Guidelines, Globe and Mail, June 21, 2017, Kelly Grant |
Oxycontin, 20 years on, letter to Globe, May 2017 |
Lake Ontario wind turbines to remain on hold? Feb 2017 |
Obituary, Raold Serebrin, September 2016 |
Sartorial slip or signal? letter to Globe editor, October 2016 |
Weapons of mass distraction, letter to Globe editor, Oct 2016 |
Point O turbines 99% Down the Drain, CCSAGE, July 7, 2016 |
Point O turbines Dead and Damned, PECFN, July 6, 2016 |
Rabid diplomat, letter to Globe, May, 2016 |
More on bats: rabid rocker? letter to Globe, January 2016 |
Lighthouses of eastern Lake Ontario, new book by Marc Seguin, March 2016 |
Continuing corporate windpower malfeasance: Windstream and Trillium Corp, Feb 2016 |
Amherst Island: the next fine mess, Feb 2016 |
Valerie Langer: Thirty years of effort pays off on the B.C. coast, Feb 1,2016 |
Trillium log, 6th annual ELO expedtion, September 2015 |
Trillium Wind Corp intent on Spoliation of eastern Lake Ontario and Main Duck Isle, June 2015 |
Turtles rule? Ontario Court of Appeal Decision: Turtlegate, April 2015 |
Obituaries, Mary Terrance (Luke) Hill, January 2015; Valerie Ingrid (Hill) Kaldes, July 2015 |
Ontario Court of Appeal turtle hearing, December 2014 |
Trillium Log, 5th annual ELO expedition, September 2014 |
Planetary public health manifesto, The Lancet, March 2014 |
Ostrander Bioblitz, butterfly inventory walk, August 10, 2014 |
Victory at Cape Vincent: British Petroleum withdraws turbine proposal, February 2014 |
Stay of execution granted by Ontario Court of Appeal, March 2014 |
Never say die: Will the Court of Appeal let the Ostrander Phoenix fly free again? March 2014 |
Divisional Court ruling in Ostrander: turtles belly up, Trojan horses win, February 2014 |
Lafarge 2020, pushing the air envelope again, Hazardous waste as cement kiln fuel proposal, Jan2014 |
Another fine mess in Port Hope: municipal waste incinerator proposal, January 2014 |
Ostrander: fiasco, or snafu? you decide, December 2013 |
Ostrander rises again, Noli illegitimi carborundum, December 2013 |
British Petroleum backing off Cape Vincent after a decade of aggression? December 2013 |
Turbines best Bald Eagles in U.S law, December 2013 |
SARStock 10 years after, letter to Globe, August 2003 |
Trillium log September 2013: Surfin' USA: Hanging Ten in a Hughes 29 |
ERT Post mortem: Garth Manning lets it all hang out, August 2013 |
ERT post mortem: Cheryl Anderson lets it all hang out, August 2013 |
ERT Post Mortem: Ian Dubin lets it all hang out, August 2013 |
Great Lakes United turns thirty, goes down, RIP GLU, July 29, 2013 |
ERT decision, Ostrander turns turtle, goes down, July 3, 2013 |
PECFN Thankyou, and Appeal for funds, July 6, 2013 |
Minister of Env on Lake Ontario Off shore wind turbine status, June 2013 |
Lake Ontario water level control plan, June 2013 |
Play by Play, Part II, APPEC Ostrander ERT Appeal, June 2013 |
Ostrander ERT June 2013, Appendix VI, an indirect cause of human morbidity and mortality ? |
ELOERG Presentation to Ostrander ERT, Part II, Human Health, May 2013 |
The Dirty E-Word, Terry Sprague, Picton Gazette, April 2013 |
Toxics in Great Lakes Plastic Pollution, April 2013 |
Bill Evans on Birds and Wind farms, April 2013 |
Mayday, Naval Marine Archive, April 2013 |
Experimental Lakes Area, Kenora, Closing by Federal Gov't, March 2013 |
Fishing Lease Phase out on Prince Edward Point, March 2013 |
Windstream makes $1/2 Billion NAFTA claim, March 2013 |
Play by Play, PECFN Ostrander ERT Appeal, March 2013 |
Offshore Wind turbine moratorium 2 years later, The Star, Feb 2013 |
ELOERG ERT submission on Ostrander: Appendix V: Pushing the Envelope of the MoE SEV, Feb 2013 |
Wente on Wind and Bald Eagle mugging, Globe and Mail, February 2, 2013 |
Sprague on Wind and Bald Eagle mugging, Picton Gazette, Jan 25, 2013 |
Cry Me a River over a Few Bats: Submission to Env Review Tribunal, ELOERG, January 2013 |
Lake Ontario's Troubled Waters: U of Michigan GLEAM, January 2013 |
Letter to Minister of Environment re: Ostrander, January 2013 |
No Balm in Gilead: Ostrander IWT's as Trojan Horses, January 2013 |
Ostrander Turbines: another Christmas gift by the MoE, Dec 2012 |
Occupational carcinogens: Ontario Blue Collar breast cancer study, November 2012 |
Fresh water fish Extinctions, Scientific American,November 2012 |
Great Lakes Toxics revisited, November 2012 |
Frack the What ? November 2012 |
$ 2 1/4 Billion Trillium Power lawsuit knockback Appeal, November 2012 |
Canada Centre for Inland Waters decimated, October 2012 |
Birds, Bats, Turbines, and the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, October 2012 |
Ecological public health, the 21st centurys big idea? British MedicalJournal Sept1,2012 |
Trillium log, Sept 2012 |
George Prevost, Saviour of the Canadas, 1812 - 1814. June 2012 |
The Victory at Picton: Bicentennial Conference on War of 1812-1814, Differing Perspectives, May 2012 |
Carleton Island and the 1812, letter to the Globe, October 2011 |
Queen's Fine Arts Department Succumbs, letter to Principal, December 2011 |
Mr. Kumar and the Super 30, November 2011 |
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NATIONAL POST Lawrence Solomon: Rip out the bike lanes before more innocent people get hurt With their false promise
of safety, bike lanes lure the inexperienced onto dangerous roads Bike lanes can give cyclists a false sense of safety.Tony
Caldwell
LAWRENCE SOLOMON January 2, 2018
Cyclists are at high risk when they're on the road: accident
rates per kilometer are 26 to 48 times higher for bikes than for automobiles, according to Ontario's Share the Road Cycling
Coalition. The culprits are many, but three in particular stand out: careless motorists who are oblivious to those with whom
they share the road, inexperienced cyclists who have no business being on the road, and reckless politicians and planners
who build bike lanes as vanity projects.
Politicians promote bike lanes largely because inexperienced cyclists feel
safer on them. Feeling safer, they are likelier to attempt commuting by bike. But there is a difference between feeling safer
and being safer. Many if not most bike lanes increase the odds of an accident, particularly since inexperienced cyclists are
ill-equipped to understand the hazards they face. Bike lanes, with their false promise of safety, lure the inexperienced onto
roads, and some inevitably to their death.
With their false promise of safety, bike lanes lure the inexperienced onto
dangerous roads
Over the decades, experienced cyclists and cycling advocacy organizations have often argued against
dedicated cycling paths. In one study, the German Cyclists Union, ADFC, noted that cyclists in the Netherlands are involved
in 40 per cent of all traffic accidents while accounting for only 27 per cent of travel, despite a proliferation of bicycle
lanes; in Germany, which has far fewer bike lanes, the proportion of accidents was lower. The ADFC's position, like that of
many others, is that cyclists who know what they are doing are safer in traffic among cars than in bike lanes alongside them.
That
message is no longer a commonplace, however: Many cycling advocacy organizations are now captive to government funding and
the cycling industry, which rightly understands that bicycle lanes benefit its bottom line. A case in point is the League
of American Bicyclists, a venerable cycling NGO, which a decade ago purged its board of bike-lane dissenters and now more
represents the interests of bicycle sellers and planners.
Lawrence Solomon: Ban the bike! How cities made a huge mistake
in promoting cycling Bicycles kill. How urban cycling policies made city streets more lethal Lawrence Solomon: How road
diets are making our car commutes even more painful
Unbundling the stats shows why, all else being equal,it is a no-brainer
that cyclists should share the same lanes as motorized vehicles. Relatively few accidents occur when impatient motorists overtake
slower-moving bicycles in their lane: just seven per cent of bike-car collisions occur this way.
ACCIDENTS In contrast,
the overwhelming proportion of bike-car accidents ,89 per cent in one study, occur during turning or crossing, generally at
intersections. If the bicycle is in its own lane, it faces additional threats from automobiles turning right across the bicycle
lane.
An additional threat also occurs mid-block, at driveways, when autos pulling into traffic making left-hand turns
must dart across the bike lane and the adjacent car lane to turn left into the far lane, requiring the driver to judge traffic
coming from two directions in three lanes.
Put another way, by some measures, bike lanes make cycling safer in seven
per cent of car-bike situations but more dangerous in 89 per cent. Not a good ratio.
Yet, because bike paths are fashionable,
municipal politicians compete with each other to remake their cities as world-class cycling cities, often at great expense,
to serve a small segment of the population (typically just one or two per cent of commuters cycle) that for the most part
lacks the ability to ride safely.
According to the Bicycle Federation of America, fewer than five per cent of cyclists
would qualify as experienced or highly skilled bicyclists. In effect, municipal cycling policy is being driven by cycling
incompetents, leading to increased risks and limited freedom for the road-worthy cyclist since many jurisdictions with bike
lanes require cyclists to keep off car lanes.
LICENSING Cycling is serious, life-and-death business, and is becoming
more so as cycling ridership expands. It should be treated as such: by licensing cyclists after they have learned the rules
of the road and demonstrated their on-road competence, just as other vehicle owners must; by requiring their vehicles to be
insured and roadworthy through headlamps, reflectors and brakes; and by strictly policing their behaviour. There is no substitute
for cycling competence; competence reduces the cyclist accident rate by about 75 per cent, states John Forester, a leading
American authority on cycling safety.
Cyclists are not alone in needing discipline. For them to share the road, those
they are sharing it with motorists need discipline as well, to accept cyclists as equally entitled to the road. Police should
crack down on unruly motorists, including those who display impatience at cyclists they perceive to be slowing them down.
Politicians
and planners need discipline, too, to focus on real rather than perceived safety needs. Bike lane budgets should be redirected
to safety at intersections, including through technology that identifies unfit motorists and enforcement that chastens them.
44 per cent of intersection accidents are caused by the driver's carelessness.
Because cycling is inherently more
dangerous than driving, anyone who decides to cycle rather than drive faces an elevated risk. Bike-lane propaganda by politicians
and planners won't reduce that risk. Education and enforcement, for cyclists and motorists alike, will.
Lawrence Solomon
is executive director of Urban Renaissance Institute, a division of Energy Probe Research Foundation. LawrenceSolomon@nextcity.com
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in a series. For part one, click here.
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