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References & Further Reading
Effective Cycling, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262516945
Bicycle Transportation, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262560795
‘Bike Boom’: Lessons from the ’70s cycling craze that swept the U.S
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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
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
What the data says about dangerous driving and road rage in the U.S.
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 | Bicycle Dutch
Comments by John Forester under a Bicycle Dutch blog in 2016:
The footage in this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, with some images licensed from Getty Images and other sources.
Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter
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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
Corrections
1:18:49 It makes no material change to this video, but apparently John Forester was invited to a bicycle safety conference in the Netherlands in 2013. He was openly ridiculed by the experts there.
