This page serves as an index of articles that provide important background knowledge and useful talking points for bicyclist and pedestrian advocates. Start with essential resources like our Advocacy Handbook and Policy Toolkit, to strengthen your advocacy efforts.
General Background Knowledge for Advocates
- Bicycling: Privilege or Right? – A historical background on the right to travel by walking and cycling
- Paying for Shared Roads – Tax revenues are not keeping up with the costs of building and maintaining a road systems.
Bicycling
- How to Pass a Bicyclist – Consistent messaging for motorists
- Using the Left Half of the Lane – Explains how defensive bicycling is sometimes counter-intuitive
- The Evolution of Stay-Right Laws – Understand what the law does – and doesn’t – require in NC and other states, and why
- Courteous Cycling – Establishing appropriate framing and expectations
- Get to Know the ITE Traffic Control Devices Handbook – Learn how to use this respected guide to advocate for better design practices
- Assured Clear Distance Ahead and Vision Zero – Traffic law requires drivers to limit their speed so that they can stop reliably within their sight distance
- Autonomous Driving and Collision Avoidance Systems – An in-depth analysis of current technology and implications for pedestrians, bicyclists, and public policy
HB232 Bicycle Safety Law Study (2016)
- HB232 Update – The latest on HB232
- NCDOT Releases Final Report to Legislature – Where to find the final report and appendices
- BikeWalk NC Feedback on H232 Study Report – A detailed discussion of BikeWalk NC’s response to NCDOT’s proposals to change traffic laws for bicyclists.
- Safe Passing Principles, Laws, and Recommendations – A report prepared by BikeWalk NC for the HB232 Committee
- The Evolution of Stay-Right Laws – A report prepared by BikeWalk NC for the HB232 Committee
- Interpretation of NC Stay Right Law – PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes prepared by BikeWalk NC for NCDOT (pdf version without notes here)
- Critical Mind Share – Evolving thinking on bicyclist lane use
Position Papers
Bicycle Detection
- BikeWalk NC Position on Bicycle Detection at Demand-Actuated Traffic Signals
- BikeWalk NC Background Paper on Sensors for Bicycle Detection
Safer Passing
- BikeWalk NC Position Paper on Safer Passing (Superseded by HB232 study recommendation and actual law change)
Police Education
Rumble Strips
Driver Education
