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	Land-Use, Demographic, Climate, and Cultural Issues Affecting Utilitarian Bicycle Travel in Cary, North Carolina
		Because the vast majority of cycling transportation in the future will be done by cyclists similar to those who cycle in the United States today, the best way to either predict or encourage bicycle transportation is to understand the habits of today’s transportation cyclists and the factors that influence their decisions.
		Cycling as the driver of a vehicle in compliance with this concept is known as vehicular cycling, and is the safest way known for cycling on any roadway.
		Members of recreational road cycling organizations are experienced users of roadways, are often interested in promoting cycling and cycling safety, and have substantial economic power, but often find themselves put on the defensive regarding their legal right to cycle on public roads.
	www.humantransport.org /bicycledriving/cyclinguse.htm (7569 words)

	Vehicular_cycling LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Vehicular cycling, or VC, is the practice of driving bicycles on roads in a manner which is visible, predictable, and in accordance with the principles for driving a vehicle in traffic.
		Cycling in the door zone (many cyclists track their tires just outside of the door zone, apparently not realizing that their elbows or even handlebars are close enough to be struck by a suddenly opening door, possibly forcing the cyclist into traffic with little to no warning).
		To understand vehicular cycling, it is important to fully comprehend the subtle but significant distinction between the principles for driving a vehicle in traffic and the laws which regulate driving in a given jurisdiction.
	language.school-explorer.com /info/Vehicular_cycling (3539 words)

	Bicycle Sport Shop - Austin, Texas - What Is Safe Bicycling? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vehicular Cycling is the only national standard for safe bicycling that is based upon long-term analysis of traffic and safety; studies of common bicycle and car/bike crashes, and studies of how experienced cyclists avoid crashes, riding year after year without one.
		Vehicular rules allow people to safely share the road with each other, and to compensate for the common mistakes of others.
		Vehicular Cycling public awareness campaigns are the single most effective method for changing motorist and bicyclist behaviours.
	www.bicyclesportshop.com /page.cfm?PageID=68 (1149 words)

	Chapter 4: Bicyclist Behavior 1--The Ideal: Vehicular Cycling
		Although vehicular cycling is fairly simple in principle, it can get confusing and frightening for novices faced with complicated intersections or with having to make left turns in heavy traffic.
		There are plenty of stories told in cycling circles of cyclists who become more confident and comfortable in traffic, who ride more often to places they would not have dared go before, and who have fewer conflicts with motorists—all because they learned vehicular cycling techniques.
		The only sure way to find out if vehicular cycling is significantly safer than other riding styles would be to give diaries to a very large population of cyclists and have them log their miles and crashes over the course of several years.
	www.wright.edu /~jeffrey.hiles/essays/listening/ch4.html (6196 words)

	Bicycle Fixation: Offer Your Articles
		While these are negotiable for cyclists using vehicular cycling principles, I believe they encourage higher speeds and an expectation of priority in motorists' minds.
		Now is the time to develop strategies that team vehicular cycling concepts with those that curtail encouragement of unnecessary single-occupant motor vehicle trips.
		I'm a very confident vehicular cyclist, and think I can handle any situation the engineers throw at me, but I would prefer that my trips by bike be on roads with slower speeds, shade trees (especially important here in Florida), and intersections that are simple and straightforward to negotiate.
	www.living-room.org /mega.htm (1411 words)

	Organization
		Cycling according to the vehicular-cycling principle is best on good roads, but is prohibited or discouraged (at least) by the special bicycle facilities (bike paths and bike lanes) that are falsely supposed to make cycling safe for beginners.
		However, at this time there were cycling spokesmen able to make scientific challenges to their designs, to demonstrate how dangerous these designs are and how much safer vehicular cycling is. This was the start of the American bikeway debate.
		Vehicular cycling is no more an elite skill than is driving a car, which we expect practically everybody to be able to do.
	www.johnforester.com /BTEO/Organization.htm (5338 words)

	Vehicular Cycling Information - Articles Free (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sometimes vehicular cycling is referred to as integrated cycling (i.e.
		Vehicular cycling is based on the principles, not the laws.
		An alternative to vehicular cycling is pedestrian cycling, or cycling according to the pedestrian rules of the road.
	www.articlesfree.com /index.php?title=Vehicular_Cycling (3539 words)

	Vehicular Cycling
		Advocates of vehicular cycling—such as John Forester, John Franklin and John S. Allen—argue that cycling in accordance to the vehicular rules of the road is the safest and most effective means to use a bicycle for transportation.
		Some VC advocates oppose segregated cycling facilities like bike lanes because they inhibit and discourage cycling integrated with other vehicular traffic, and because they encourage motorists not to expect bicycles where it is reasonable to expect them and even where they are forced to be.
		To understand vehicular cycling, it is important to fully comprehend the subtle but significant distinction between the principles for driving a vehicle in traffic and the laws which regulate driving in a given jurisdiction.
	vehicular-cycling.com (1343 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Effective Cycling"
		Effective Cycling is a trademarked cycling educational program designed by John Forester, which was the national education program of the League of American Wheelmen for a number of years.
		Forester sums up Effective Cycling with what he calls the vehicular cycling (VC) principle: "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles." This injunction is consistent with the rules of the road, which generally apply to all types of drivers of vehicles.
		Forester generally opposes facilities (such as bicycle lanes) which he contends encourage behavior that is contrary to the vehicular cycling practices.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=effective_%43ycling (406 words)

	Bicycle Fixation: Offer Your Articles
		Now is the time to develop strategies that team vehicular cycling concepts with those that curtail encouragement of unnecessary single-occupant motor vehicle trips.
		We need to show them that we are neither; that vehicular cycling is relatively simple, using straightforward techniques and, for the most part, easily acquired skills.
		I'm a very confident vehicular cyclist, and think I can handle any situation the engineers throw at me, but I would prefer that my trips by bike be on roads with slower speeds, shade trees (especially important here in Florida), and intersections that are simple and straightforward to negotiate.
	www.bicyclefixation.com /mega.htm (1411 words)

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		I (John Forester) am the founder of cycling transportation engineering (which is the scientific study of all aspects of bicycle operation), author of Effective Cycling and Bicycle Transportation, founder of the Effective Cycling Program of the League of American Wheelmen, former director and president of that League.
		The other is the hypothesis that cycling in narrow lanes is actually a very dangerous activity but that the number of accidents so caused is very small because only a very small number of cyclists expose themselves to the risk.
		That is arguing that cycling and the roads are dangerous largely because of the hazard of the overtaking motorist and that cyclists should therefore be accommodated on bikeways.
	www.sandiego.edu /freshair/bicycles/archive/John%20Forester/Proper%20Strategy%20for%20Cyclists (3252 words)

	Danger of Anti-Car Advocacy
		Vehicular Cycling means operating a bicycle according to the standard rules for drivers of vehicles, on the same roads and with the same rights.
		The risk of damage does not result from conflicting goals: Vehicular Cycling is compatible with both conventional middle-class and countercultural lifestyles and, with certain qualifications, both anti-car ideology and indifference to widespread auto use.
		The reason I see for not mixing Vehicular Cycling advocacy with anti-car ideology in the same organization is that because the anti-car fervor eventually captures the organization.
	www.labreform.org /anti-car.html (762 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		Cycling on the side of a lane that is too narrow to be safely shared side by side with other vehicles, thus inviting drivers of vehicles to try to squeeze into the narrow lane unsafely.
		This is an important vehicular cycling skill because it alleviates the cyclist from having to execute a pedestrian style left turn, which involves switching modes to pedestrian and then back to vehicular again.
		Advocates of vehicular cycling, like Forester, Franklin and Allen, argue that cycling in accordance to the vehicular rules of the road is the safest and most effective means to use a bicycle for transportation.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Vehicular_cycling (2535 words)

	Effective Cycling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Effective Cycling is a trademarked cycling educational program designed by John Forester, which was the national education program of the League of American Wheelmen for a number of years.
		Forester sums up Effective Cycling with what he calls the vehicular cycling (VC) principle: "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles." This injunction is consistent with the rules of the road, which generally apply to all types of drivers of vehicles.
		Forester generally opposes facilities (such as bicycle lanes) which he contends encourage behavior that is contrary to the vehicular cycling practices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Effective_Cycling (421 words)

	Is Cycling Dangerous? -- The Risk of Bicycle Use -- Accidents, Fatalities, Injuries, and Benefits
		Fearmongering discourages vehicular cycling and by doing so increases the number of deaths; bicycling is at the worst no more dangerous than driving an automobile and has compensatory health benefits that greatly overshadow the risks.
		And cycling magazines and brochures no longer explained how to behave in traffic but started preaching, "Wear a helmet at all times!" This new message did not teach the newcomers how to avoid accidents, and it emphasized how dangerous cycling was.
		But no matter whether people start exercising early or late, cycling has the ability to regenerate their bodies and to keep them from joining the million lives lost a year, and that is a lifetime risk of not 1/256 or 1/133 but of 1/3.
	kenkifer.com /bikepages/health/risks.htm (8483 words)

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		(Vehicular cycling is the type advocated by courses such as Canbike, invovling a disdain for bike lanes and a call for education of cyclists so they feel empowered to "take the lane.")
		"Vehicular cycling has its place as a solution for increasing cyclist safety--but just as bike lanes are not--it is not and can not be the only solution that we advocate for.
		Not only is it insufficient alone, the principles of vehicular cycling are unknown by the majority of cyclists (the minority that advocate for them are extremely vocal!) and even if they more well known are difficult for most people to adhere to.
	www.digitalmediatree.com /sallymckay/bike/?25471 (199 words)

	Test Marketing
		The major points it addresses are vehicular principles which our research indicates are most commonly misunder-stood, and even unknown to many motorists and bicyclists.
		Vehicular Cycling is the only national standard for safe bicycling that is based upon normal vehicular behaviour; correlated with long-term analysis of traffic and safety, studies of common bicycle and car/bike crashes, and studies of how the most experienced cyclists ride year after year, their entire lives, without one.
		Vehicular Cycling education benefits the bicyclist on every road, in every situation, every-where they go.
	cyclemedia.org /ercc/tmarket.htm (1216 words)

	fract.de ODP++
		John Forester, M.S., P.E. Forester is the father of the vehicular cycling concept.
		Cycling Advocacy Works by Fred Oswald - An interesting and insightful collection of original articles addressing the topic of vehicular cycling.
		John Forester, M.S., P.E. - Forester is the father of the vehicular cycling concept.
	www.fract.de /cgi-bin/odp/index.cgi?base=%2F%53%70%6F%72%74%73%2F%43%79%63%6C%69%6E%67%2F%43%6F%6D%6D%75%74%69%6E%67%5F%61%6E%64%5F%41%64%76%6F%63%61%63%79%2F (3477 words)

	Cyclists Don't Buy Vehicular Cycling \| I Bike T.O.
		Vehicular cycling may be promoted by cities and provinces as the self defense class for the roads, as has been done for decades now, but it is clear from this study that people will not be convinced.
		The problem with vehicular cycling is encounters with ignorant motorists unwilling to accept bicycles are vehicles and bicyclists have any entitlement to roadspace.
		Vehicular cycling is great until ones first encounter with a motorist who refuses to accept bicycles are vehicles and bicyclists have any entitlement to roadspace.
	www.ibiketo.ca /node/1796 (5363 words)

	[CycleON] Cycle Network in Ontario
		Vehicular cycling places cyclists in road positions where motorists are already going to look -- for other motorists.
		When there aren't enough off-road cyclists to attract the attention of motorists, vehicular cycling as a tactic that cyclists can use to essentially co-opt some of the attention that motorists pay to other motorists.
		That way cycling can be commonly perceived as safe enough to attract the cyclists we need.
	www.cycleontario.ca /pipermail/discuss/2005-July/000689.html (479 words)

	Vehicular_cycling - SiteTracer.com
		Vehicular cycling (VC) is the practice of driving bicycles on public roads in a manner which is visible, predictable, and in accordance with the rules of the road for operating a vehicle.
		Forester sums up Effective Cycling with what he calls the vehicular cycling (VC) principle: "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles.
		Vehicular cycling techniques may not reduce collisions as much as some advocates claim.
	www.sitetracer.com /search/Vehicular_cycling (415 words)

	TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES: Other Materials: Cycling Safety on Bikeways vs. Roads
		Cycling at the rapid speed he was accustomed to (from cycling on roadways), Forester estimates that the "risk rate was at least a 1,000 times greater on the sidepath than on the roadway."
		In fact, the overwhelming evidence is that cycling is much safer and more popular precisely in those countries where bikeways, bike lanes, special intersection modifications, and priority traffic signals are the key to their bicycling policies.
		Vehicular cycling, as Forester points out, is already possible on most urban roads (except limited access highways).
	www.transalt.org /info/other/010901cyclingsafety.html (1388 words)

	Forester
		There are many skills associated with cycling, some having to do with the bicycle itself, others with the match between you and your bicycle, others explaining how to ride with least fatigue, others with how to handle the environmental conditions of heat and cold, rain, darkness, winds, and hills.
		Vehicular cycling, so named because you are acting as the driver of a vehicle, just as the traffic laws require, is faster and more enjoyable, so that the plain joy of cycling overrides the annoyance of even heavy traffic.
		The greatest defect in American bicycling is the predominance of incompetent, unlawful, fearful, and superstitious cycling behaviors and beliefs among the population, both bicycling and general, and the corresponding paucity of lawful, competent, and confident cyclists.
	www.johnforester.com (1207 words)

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