The Monday Roundup: A cycling revolution, bike fashion sense, order versus safety, and more

Welcome to Monday.

Here are the best stories we came across last week…

Bikes will rule the world: And cars will be the biggest losers. Seriously. So says a, “a prominent analyst of disruptive technologies, who has spent the past three and a half years researching the future of transportation.”

Order — not safety or livability — is the priority: Doug Gordon at Brooklyn Spoke explains why people on foot and bikes in cities is so unsettling to law enforcement and the (mostly driving) public in general.

Mr. Trek speaks: Trek Bicycles President John Burke dishes on products, sales figures, the “Lance Effect”, advocacy, Trump, and a lot more in this interview with Business Insider.

Bike fashion opinions: The head of Rapha, a high-end cycling apparel brand, told The Guardian that most people look “appalling” on a bike.

Ride into office: Jared Fisher, a bike shop owner in Las Vegas, wants to be the next republican governor of Nevada.

How walking helps us think: You have probably experienced this while biking too: The act of moving your body with your own power — especially while walking — puts your mind and body in a state of optiminum output.

Safer streets for all?: Streetsblog Chicago looks into the data to show that while streets are safer for people inside cars and trucks, they are more dangerous for everyone else.

It’s Oregon’s time: T4 America has the analysis of the 27 states that have recently passed major transportation funding measures.

Faster and faster: Organizers of the famous Giro d’ Italia stage will maintain a leaderboard of the fastest descenders. Some are worried it will incentivize risk and lead to crashes.

Culture shifting in London: British MPs are using words like “privilege” when it comes to driving and saying that in a perfect world vulnerable road users should have highest priority.

The state of suburbia: Richard Florida makes the case that American suburbs are in “crisis” as demographic and economic shifts now favor urban areas and outlying rural zones.

Transit vs cars in L.A.: The Economist shines on a light on the status of Los Angeles’s efforts to tame auto traffic with better transit.

Drive less, save more (lives): Streetsblog says what the mainstream media and road safety groups will never say: The key to less road deaths and injuries is to simply stop driving so damn much.

Let them drink!: The American Beverage Institute is very unhappy that Utah has lowered its drunk driving threshold to .05% BAC.

Mandatory helmet laws don’t work: Can we be done with this debate already? Please?!

Common question, uncommon answer: The Willamette Week did a bang-up job answering a readers question about why bicycle riders don’t have to have insurance.

Thanks to everyone who flagged articles for us this week!

— Jonathan Maus: (503) 706-8804, @jonathan_maus on Twitter and jonathan@bikeportland.org

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