A million-and-a-half cyclists, 67 turnouts, 10 years: How Mt. Diablo embraced safety and made history
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from eastbaytimes.com7 months ago
"A decade ago, Alan Kalin rallied a working group within the Mount Diablo Cyclists club to craft a solution that could help ease tensions between people traveling on both two and four wheels."
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"Their first blueprints for bike turnouts were drafted in 2014, featuring a pioneering design that allowed bicyclists, who pedal uphill at slower speeds, to pull into their own paved lane so that vehicles can pass safely."
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"Mount Diablo State Park's roads are the only documented location that has implemented bike turnout infrastructure on a significant scale. They don't exist anywhere else in the world, Kalin said in an interview."
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"It's not going to eliminate a collision, but we have saved the lives of people that we'll never know."
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