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Here are the great bike links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:
Automatic lifesaving: Street-scanning, self-braking technology is already saving lives. So why isn’t it required in every car yet?
Handlebar cam: The Fly12 is a combination headlight/video camera.
The other drug war: Colorado’s governor wants to make someone’s fourth drunk-driving offense a felony, but some state officials worry that all that jail time would cost too much.
Flashy bike: A British cop has brought this memorable customized bike with him from post to post over the years.
Bike tunnel: It snowed a lot in Boston last week:
There's so much snow piled up at #MBTA Wellington that there's snow tunnel a biker can clear! (via @BostonBikeParty) pic.twitter.com/lTkm1QD98n
— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) February 19, 2015
Icy riding: Next year, the Twin Cities will be the first U.S. city to host the International Winter Cycling Conference.
Designs for speed: Why do wider auto lanes decrease safety? Because according to the Transportation Research Board, “drivers’ primary basis for estimating their speed is the visual sensation provided by the highway geometrics.”
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Local control: In the UK, there’s a rising movement to devolve more political power to city and metro-area governments.
Lane switch: A soon-to-be parking-protected bike lane will Bay Area city Alameda “our first complete street.”
Armstrong perjury: Lance’s new $10 million penalty for lying under oath about his use of performance drugs is “believed to be the largest such sanction against an individual in American judicial history.”
Bike holiday: Presidents’ Day, founded at the start of the 1880s bike boom, started its life largely as a holiday to enjoy bicycling.
Public space: Why exactly did we illegalize having parties in the street? asks Angie Schmitt.
Reconnected college: With 850 students, staff and faculty near the west landing of the Ross Island Bridge, the Northwest College of Natural Medicine has been trapped for decades on a big traffic island. NCNM is hoping that a rail or rapid bus line down Naito will tie it to the rest of South Portland.
Steely White style: When New York City’s top bike advocate races, he wears the kit of “an Icelandic yogurt company.”
Just do it: “We are our own heroes,” said Oboi Reed of Slow Roll Chicago in one of a series of short keynotes from last weekend’s Youth Bike Summit in Seattle. “Nobody’s coming to save the day except for us.”
If you come across a noteworthy bicycle story, send it in via email, Tweet @bikeportland, or whatever else and we’ll consider adding it to next Monday’s roundup.