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References & Further Reading
Effective Cycling, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262516945
Bicycle Transportation, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262560795
Davis, Californië: "The Bicycle Capital of the World"
https://fietsberaad.nl/CROWFietsberaad/media/Kennis/Bestanden/Davis_Californie.pdf
‘Bike Boom’: Lessons from the ’70s cycling craze that swept the U.S
https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/28/15886810/bike-transportation-cycling-urban-design-bike-boom
https://phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/lifestyle/70s.htm
America Could Have Been Building Protected Bike Lanes for the Last 40 Years
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/06/30/america-could-have-been-building-protected-bike-lanes-for-the-last-40-years
Vehicular Cycling – How Cyclists—Not Just Cars—Blocked Safer Bike Infrastructure
https://thehappyurbanist.substack.com/p/vehicular-cycling
Bikeway Planning Criteria and Guidelines
https://web.archive.org/web/20080216022317/http://drusilla.hsrc.unc.edu/cms/downloads/BikewayPlanningGuidelines1972.pdf
1976: BIG JIM’s Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar – BBC Archive
Four Types of Cyclists
https://www.portland.gov/transportation/walking-biking-transit-safety/documents/four-types-cyclists/download
2007.05.17 John Forester – Google Tech Talks
USA 1977: Chevrolet Impala/Caprice takes the lead
USA 1977: Chevrolet Impala/Caprice takes the lead, Ford F-Series now best-selling truck
The Marginalization of Bicyclists
Ontario Highway Traffic Act
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08#BK245
Road safety and perceived risk of cycle facilities in Copenhagen
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235358599_Road_safety_and_perceived_risk_of_cycle_facilities_in_Copenhagen
Ask the Experts: Søren Underlien Jensen and Dr. Lon D. Roberts, PhD.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214140518301488?via%3Dihub
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/
https://www.thetrace.org/2024/04/road-rage-shooting-gun-highway-deaths/
Bicycle Today – Automobile Tomorrow
https://archive.org/details/BicycleToday
The Racing Cyclist
https://archive.org/details/TheRacingCyclist
Oslo Street Design Manual – English translation
https://www.cyclescape.org/library/documents/124
Map of buildings in the Netherlands by year of construction
https://code.waag.org/buildings/
Velo-city 2025 in Gdańsk | Global Cycling Conference Highlights and Impressions – Bicycle Dutch
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:54 California tried to marginalise cycling
6:25 The birth of Vehicular Cycling
9:38 The MAMIL’s Manifesto
20:15 Just ride like a car, bro!
28:05 Bicycle lanes are … unsafe?
46:09 The second book is even worse?!
58:16 The actual problems with bike lanes
1:06:14 But what about the Netherlands?
1:13:30 Forester at Google
1:21:18 The Cult of the Vehicular Cyclist
1:26:16 Bicycles are not cars!?
1:31:29 Concluding thoughts
1:32:28 Acknowledgements & Nebula