Out of the Web and back to the real world.

      It's been a while because the stats on this blog have been a little strange.  For many weeks I was getting four to five thousand hits a week, from one device in Singapore over the first 3 days of each week.  It looked like some kind of bizarre web crawling robotic program looking to create trouble.  So I stopped posting to eliminate real new activity it might be searching for.  The activity has stopped and I'm sure it has crawled off to find better prey on the web.

     In the real world, developments keep happening.  The city has completed it's creation of a two way cycle track through downtown Kalamazoo.  Signaling has been installed give the intersections to cyclists for safe crossing amid all the traffic crossing the lanes. 

                                 

The signals are very noticeable and motorists seem compliant, but the sequencing of the lights will need to be tweaked as traffic develops over time.  Right now, it seems to be "pedal a block and wait" if you stick strictly with the lights.  This cycle track is only 6 or 7 blocks long, not a couple of miles, so we will probably never see anything like the "green wave"  they've developed in Chicago. where the sequence is refined to allow constant bike flow at 12 MPH. 

But it's a start, and the public seems to be behind the development.