Research Articles

Bikes vs. Bill 212: Ripping Out the Solution

Ontario tried to rip out Toronto's busiest bike lanes in the name of reducing gridlock. A 2025 court ruling found the removal would make people less safe without easing congestion—and struck it down as unconstitutional.

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Trash, Rats, and Parking: Why NYC and Boston Make Garbage Choices

How NYC and Boston's obsession with curbside parking keeps streets full of trash bags and rats, and why Amsterdam-style containerization is the obvious fix.

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When Fire Trucks Block Safer Streets

How oversized fire trucks and outdated rules quietly block safer street design—and what it would take for firefighters to become Vision Zero allies.

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Loud Cities, Quiet Streets

Urban noise pollution comes overwhelmingly from cars, not cities themselves—and we already know how to design quieter, healthier streets.

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The Fastest Way Around Boston: Bikes vs the T from Cleveland Circle

Using travel-time maps from Cleveland Circle, we compare cycling and the MBTA to see which is really faster for getting around Boston.

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Can a Car Horn Make Cyclists More Courteous?

Can a car-horn-loud bike horn make cyclists more courteous? Research on risk compensation plus real Loud Bicycle rider stories.

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When Bikes Honk Like Cars

What a podcast interview taught me about building a car-horn-loud bicycle horn, driver reflexes, and the gap in bike infrastructure.

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Use of auditory icons as emergency warnings in real cars and simulated worlds

What happens when you replace generic beeps with horn and tyre sounds in collision warnings, and what that tells us about safer in-vehicle alerts.

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Is a Car Horn the Best Horn For Bicycles?

Why familiar car-style horns from Loud Bicycle help drivers react faster than bells and sirens when seconds matter for people biking.

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You Are The Traffic

Why congestion always comes back, why private cars don't scale with growing cities, and what 80 years of transport research says you're really looking at when you're 'stuck in traffic'.

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