new car blogg's sport: September 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

2009 Toyota Camry Wallpaper

2009 Toyota Camry Interior

2009 Toyota Yaris Wallpapers

2009 Toyota Yaris Wallpaper

2009 Toyota Yaris Interior

2009 Toyota Yaris Engine

Aston Martin DB9 wallpaper

Aston Martin DB9 Wallpaper

Aston Martin DB9 Photo

Aston Martin DB9 Picture

Aston Martin Vantage Wallpapers

Aston Martin Vantage Wallpaper

Aston Martin Vantage Picture

Aston Martin Vantage Side View

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

What is National Complete Streets Coalition and why does our Mayor not know about it.

I was recently (a couple of months ago) at a town hall style meeting in Kansas City with the Mayor. It was sponsored by a pedestrian and cyling advocay group. Toward the end of the meeting someone asked what type of Complete Streets program was in place for KC. The Mayor replied,

"Complete streets? I don't know what that is, what is that?"

Being fairly new to advocacy myself I realized even I did not understand complete streets or the history of it. I thought I would share with you all.

Borrowed from the Complete Streets site:

The National Complete Streets Coalition

"The streets of our cities and towns are an important part of the livability of our communities. They ought to be for everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of our streets are designed only for speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic jams.

Now, in communities across the country, a movement is growing to complete the streets. States, cities and towns are asking their planners and engineers to build road networks that are safer, more livable, and welcoming to everyone.

Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities."

The sight itself is very easy to navigate and host a wealth of information that is relevant to the cause.

Additionally they have a great blog too
http://www.completestreets.org/news-blog/blog/

I would like to encourage anyone interested in learning more about alternative transportation and/or wanting to be involved to check out their site and join.

See you on the road!
Peace, Bill

Lamborghini Reventon Wallpaper

Lamborghini Reventon Test Drive

Lamborghini Reventon Wallpaper

Lamborghini Reventon Interior

Bentley Limousine Picture

Bentley Limousine Classic Car

Bentley Limousine Picture

Bentley Limousine Photo

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Volkswagen Beetles at the 2010 Fast Fours & Rotaries Jamboree...

Here are some of the Beetles that were racing at this year's Fast Fours & Rotaries Jamboree drag racing event hosted at Queensland's Willowbank Raceway in Australia:

Volkswagen Beetles at the 2010 Fast Fours & Rotaries Jamboree...

Here are some of the Beetles that were racing at this year's Fast Fours & Rotaries Jamboree drag racing event hosted at Queensland's Willowbank Raceway in Australia:

Monday, September 27, 2010

2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid Wallpapers

2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid Photo

2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid Test Drive

Lamborghini Estoque Wallpapers

Lamborghini Estoque Wallpaper

Lamborghini Estoque Photo

Cyclists are inferior to motorists?

Inferiority Complex : many pedestrians and cyclists sometimes feel and act like they are inferior to drivers.

Comments by John Forester, P.E.

"I have used the term "cyclist-inferiority" in several applications, but these application all serve to describe aspects of the false concept that cyclists are inferior to motorists.

The political application is that it serves the motoring organizations, and therefore the highway organizations that they control, and in addition many politicians, to consider cyclists as inferior to motorists. By considering cyclists inferior to motorists, government can deny to cyclists some of the important rights that apply, in legal terms, to drivers of vehicles, but which are commonly supposed to apply to motorists, because cyclists and motorists are the only significant users of the nation's roadways. The rights denied are denied purely for the convenience of motorists. The most important of these are the right to use most of the width of the roadway, and the right to use roadways at all when bike lanes or bike paths have been produced, or those roadways which cannot be reached by driveways. The only reason for these restriction s that stands up to scientific analysis is the belief, on the part of motorists, that cyclists delay motorists.

The social application is the extension of the above political excuse to characterize cyclists. The official view is that 95% of cyclists are unable to learn how to obey the traffic laws. Of course, they conceal this behind propagandist jargon, terming the ability to obey the traffic laws "expert skill" and those with it the "elite." Since cyclists are very little different from the population at large, that means that, supposedly, 95% of motorists must be incapable of driving properly. However, the meanness of that attitude is demonstrated immediately by the obvious reluctance of the same motoring organizations and motorists to restrict motor-vehicle driving privilege to those who demonstrate an expert, elite, level of skill. No, as long as you drive a car, only considerably below average skill is required to receive a driving license. It is absurd to consider that most adult cyclists are incapable of knowing how to obey the traffic laws when most adult cyclists, in the USA at least, have been certified by the government as having that knowledge and skill. The only excuse for this absurdity has to be the false idea that riding a bicycle makes you temporarily incompetent, an incompetence from which you recover the moment you get behind the steering wheel of a motor vehicle.

The superstitious application of the phrase cyclist-inferiority refers to the feelings induced in people by the propaganda which has been used to promote motorists' interests. These feelings include the ones that cars own the roads, that cars don't look out for me, that I, when on a bicycle, am an intruder onto their range, from which they will eject me by either threats or death. One pervasive and effective form of that propaganda has been the traditional bike-safety propaganda program (it never was safe cycling instruction and cannot be called that), which taught cyclist-inferiority superstition, no matter how dangerous that was for cyclists. Thirty percent of car-bike collisions in the Cross study (mid 1970s) are caused by the cyclist obeying the precepts of bike-safety education.

The psychological application of the phrase cyclist inferiority refers to the cyclist-inferiority phobia, complex, or superstition, depending on severity of the case. This is the sense that:

"I, the cyclist, don't really belong on the road, which is owned by the cars, and that I am unable to follow the traffic laws for drivers of vehicles, or that if I did I would quickly be smashed."

"The roads are very dangerous places where everybody is against me, and where I have no place that I can call my own to which I could retreat as a place of safety. Since the greatest danger is from cars, which operate to my danger, obviously the greatest danger to me is the same-direction traffic that comes from behind. To protect myself from this great danger, I must do all that I can to avoid same-direction motor traffic, to defer to it when it is present, to always give it the right of way, etc., including promoting bike lanes and bike paths to protect myself from this danger."It suits motorists, which means most people in the USA, and therefore the various governments of the USA, to have cyclists considered inferior to motorists. That provides the excuse for doing things that clear the roads of cyclists for motorists' convenience. And it assists them a whole lot if cyclists cooperate by considering themselves to be inferior to motorists.

For all of these reasons (and there are probably more), it is accurate to apply the name of "cyclist inferiority" to the type of cycling and the associated feelings, superstitions, and political urges that carry out this program of motorist superiority"

John Forester, P.E.

Walk, bike, have fun! Peace, Bill

Bugatti Veyron Wallpaper

Bugatti Veyron Test Drive

Bugatti Veyron Photo

Lamborghini Gallardo Best Wallpaper

Lamborghini Gallardo Wallpaper

Lamborghini Gallardo Photo

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Luxury Car Modifications

Spyker Car Modification│2010 Trend Modification

Expect to see some abashing orange on the alley actual anon as Dutch car makers Spyker accept appear that a limited-edition LM85 will anon hit the anchorage and this one will be a street-legal adaptation of the acclaimed chase car. A Street-Legal adaptation of C8 Laviolette GT2-R racecar, accepted as the C8 Laviolette LM85 will anon be accessible but will be bound to absolute 24 cartage that will booty shape.
Spyker additionally appear that it will be assuming a pre-production archetypal of its accessible C8 Aileron sports car at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. The car will accept a 4.2L agent laying bottomward 400 hp and 354 lb-ft. of torque. It tips the scales at 3,142 lbs. and should additionally top out at 187 mph. The Aileron should do 0 to 62 mph in a hardly beneath extreme, but still absorbing 4.5 seconds.
While no added capacity accept been accustomed apropos the LM85’s latest alley version, it will be added than account the delay back it absolutely hits the road. Keep an eye out for this babyish back it rolls out but additionally be assured that it will bake a aperture through your abridged and more!