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Commuting to work on a bike sounds good
in theory — get some exercise, save gas money, enjoy the great outdoors — but for many
people, the fear outweighs the benefits.
The main reason people don’t ride bikes
in New Hampshire is that certain roads are
beyond their comfort level, said Tim Blagden, executive director of Bike-Walk Alliance
of New Hampshire. “Traffic stress” can limit
where people are willing to ride.
“There might be a nice neighborhood street
that leads to a big, wide scary street they don’t
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want to cross,” he said. “That might get people to take their car instead.”
Bike-Walk Alliance and the New Hampshire Department of Transportation are taking
the first steps toward alleviating the scariness.
They are “stress mapping” the streets in five
pilot cities — Manchester, Concord, Nashua,
Keene and Portsmouth — in order to determine how to most effectively make cities
more bike-friendly.
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better, and one of the big things is they are
saving money.”
But more often than not, the cessation
technique falls short of helping people get off
nicotine altogether, which is the ultimate goal
for cessation specialists.
“When you speak with users they will tell
you how well they’ve done in reducing cigarette use … ,” Tanski said. “But I have not
yet met a person who completely quit. Most
were dual using — they were still smoking
the occasional cigarette.”
Additionally, the majority of vaping devices don’t regulate how much nicotine people
are getting — how big a drag is, how much
is in each drag, or the frequency of use
— which makes it difficult for cessation
specialists to do their job. Most quitting techniques, like the patch or the gum, involve
gradually ratcheting down the amount of nicotine people get.
“I’m at a loss as a provider,” McNally said.
“I can’t really help them to make sure they
are getting the doses they need.”
Vaping technology is changing fast, Tanski said, and it seems there could be ways to
design devices that control a person’s intake
of nicotine in order to truly help people kick
nicotine addictions.
Until that happens, cessation specialists
agree that speaking with a doctor and using
research-based quitting methods are still the
best ways to quit.
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Disclosing ingredients is essential, Tanski said, because currently there’s no way to
know what’s in the nicotine liquids or how
much nicotine people get when they puff.
“That’s a huge, huge issue because there’s
no quality control,” she said.
What smoking cessation advocates and
Boutin disagree is on points related to flavoring. The FDA proposal doesn’t mention
restricting companies from offering piña
colada, cotton candy and a variety of other
sweet flavors.
“You’ve got to wonder what these companies are intending when you see marketing
for gummi bear flavor. Let’s face it — it’s not
the old guys like me,” Fortin said. “Most people start smoking between the ages of 18 and
26, so you’ve got to assume that’s the target
audience as well.”
But imposing regulations on flavors could
be detrimental to those who are looking to
replace cigarettes with vaping, Boutin said.
It gives his customers (the vast majority of
whom have been cigarette smokers) the
option to get off the nicotine taste.
“Who wants to go from cigarettes to a
tobacco-flavored thing? They want to get
away from that tobacco. Flavors are a must,”
he said. “If you are over 18, you should have
the choice, I believe.”
Marketing for e-cigarette products is common now, too. Ads ran during the Superbowl,
and samples were given out in party favor
packets at the Oscars. While advertisements
for cigarette and smokeless tobacco products
have been banned from television and radio
since 1971, the FDA has been silent about
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The calculation considers factors like
speed limit, number of lanes, intersection
configuration and whether there’s on-street
parking (where parked car doors can fly open
in their path).
It also considers census information that
tracks where people live and where they
might want to go. When all the data is
crunched, each street gets a score, and it can
be used to determine the most cost-effective
and productive ways to eliminate specific
problem spots and connect pockets of lowstress streets.
“The objective is, how do we build connections within these comfortable streets,
and where would we get bang for the buck?”
Blagden said. “We will be able to say, if we
build a nice wide shoulder over here, we
might double our cyclers, but if we do the
same type of treatment in another part of
town, we might get three times as much.”
Concord already has some bicycling infrastructure, and Portsmouth and Keene have
passed Complete Streets ordinances, which
aim to design streets for all users.
Last week in Concord, the New Hampshire Cycling Club donated $17,000 to the
city to build bike lanes from the town line
of Boscawen to the downtown area so the
whole 5-mile route will have lanes in both
directions. The project will create the state’s
longest bike lane.
There are plans, too, to redesign the fourlane Loudon Road to have one motorist lane
and a bike lane in each direction.
“It’s one of the more unsafe roads in the
state and a major connection from downtown
to the mall,” said Nicholas Coates, founder of
the Central New Hampshire bicycling coalition and chair of the State of New Hampshire
Bicycle Pedestrian Transportation Advisory
Committee. “Every bicyclist I talked to and
person I know in that neighborhood has wel-
comed it with open arms.”
Manchester doesn’t yet have plans to make
the city more bikeable, but that’s something
Bike Manchester, the city’s new advocacy
group, is trying to change.
“Our ultimate goal is getting more people
riding more often, but a challenge is people
don’t feel safe,” said Will Stewart of Bike
Manchester. “Frankly I’m a little jealous
when I go to places like Concord and Keene.
We are the state’s largest city, and we hope to
see [infrastructure] here. It’s one of our longterm goals.”
To help out, Bike Manchester is doing
some stress mapping of its own. It has divided the city into sections, and throughout the
month of May volunteers are grading city
streets on a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being
streets people can take their kids on and 4
being extremely high traffic roads, like South
Willow Street.
It’s a qualitative, subjective approach and
the group hopes to reach a consensus about
the streets during its June meeting, then publish it for public use.
Bike Manchester’s findings will be a
useful supplement to Bike-Walk New Hampshire’s quantitative approach, Blagden said.
“They are very eager to start to put a
human touch on it,” he said. “This will give
another check as to whether … the computer
analysis makes sense or not.”
The stress mapping system, created by a
Northeastern University professor and two
colleagues, has been used to make a number
of cities more bikeable across the country.
New Hampshire is starting with five bigger
cities because that’s where the method has
been shown to work, Blagden said.
Bike-Walk Alliance was hoping to get its
initial data to the state by May 10 and will
continue to work over the summer to fill in
any holes in the data.