It is OK to hit-and-run a bicyclist as long as you are rich and powerful. Here’s a petition to sign. Perhaps we should let this guy know what we think: District Attorney Mark Hurlbert: 970-328-6947. Please spread the word far and wide. UPDATE: From Huffington Post article linked above: District Attorney Mark Hurlbert told HuffPost on [...]
I had two stop sign twofers yesterday at 4-way stops. A stop sign twofer occurs when a bicyclist stops at a stop sign (yes, you’re supposed to stop) and the driver behind treats the situation as if the bicyclist doesn’t exist. Instead of stopping once behind the bicyclist and once at the sign — i.e. [...]
File this under WTF: Yesterday a Springfield police officer honked at my 16-year-old daughter and told her ride her bicycle on the sidewalk. She was riding to school on a road designated as a bicycle route. She was properly riding to right in a sharable lane — but NOT hugging the gutter (just as I [...]
I walked to my appointment with the eye doctor yesterday because it seemed the safest choice given that I would have my eyes dilated. The office is about 1.5 miles from my house — an easy walk on the sidewalk along National Ave. The large intersection at Sunshine and National has crossing lights for pedestrians. And [...]
One of the things I liked about graduate school was using critical theory to ask uncomfortable questions about social and cultural artifacts of various sorts. Another way to put it: It was fun learning to be an intellectual pain in the ass. Allow me to demonstrate… Consider this article (part of a series) in today’s [...]
Every time I head into traffic on my bicycle have both high and low expectations. I have high expectations for how I’ll generally be treated by my fellow road users — especially those driving cars. People hereabouts are very polite. That politeness translates into a high degree of tolerance for road users who are not driving [...]
Some politicians are willing to say anything to win. Check out this reporting about the proposed ban on bicycles on some state highways in St. Charles County: At a St. Charles County Council meeting last night, Councilman Joe Brazil came prepared with statistics in hand. In his push to ban bikes from certain rural two-lane [...]
No updates today on the proposed bicycle ban on some state highways in St. Charles County. Here’s a list of news articles about the ban from Google. Need to jump start the ol’ blood pressure this afternoon? Check out a few of the comments on this article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Technorati Tags: bicycle advocacy, bicycle [...]
Here’s a report from FOX2 in St. Louis. Question: If these roads are so dangerous, why are the speed limits 55 mph? Perhaps what needs to happen is to slow drivers rather than to ban bicyclists. The council tabled the bill in order to consider expanding the ban. More coverage from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch AP [...]
I’m just a little late on this news item because I’ve been traveling: Bicycle ban for shoulder-less highways proposed for SW St. Charles County. Roger Kramer has complete coverage on his blog here and here. Check out this press release for details on the proposed bill. Could such a bill pass and be upheld? Would [...]
My friend Keri Caffrey, of Commute Orlando, has been working on a new bicycling education program for many weeks. The results of her hard work may now be found at Cycling Savvy. If you want to learn to ride a bicycle in traffic with ease and confidence, this is a great place to start. I [...]
First, let me say that I think we have far too many stop signs. OK, so I’m heading south on Hammons Pkwy., and I stop at the 4-way stop and signal a left turn onto Cherry going east. A bicycle police officer is right in front of me going north on Hammons and signaling a [...]
STAR Team members David Hutchison, Coy Hart, and Valerie Griffen wrote an op-ed for the News-Leader to do a little myth-busting following Springfield’s earning a bronze-level bicycle-friendly community award. The chatter in the comments has been interesting so far — most concerned with bicyclists following traffic laws. I think it is clear that (in the [...]
Check out Keri Caffrey’s latest post about lane positioning and safety at Commute Orlando: A significant contributor in crashes between cars and bikes is poor lane positioning by the cyclist. Riding too far right makes the cyclist hard to see and encourages motorists to squeeze past—dangerously close—in narrow lanes. In an effort to increase cycling [...]
On the Carbon Trace blogroll you’ll find a link to ChipSeal (also mentioned in this post). The author, Reed Bates, is a bicycle blogger in Texas, and he’s recently had run-ins with the “law.” Those quotes indicate irony. Commute Orlando has a round-up of the events so far. And you can follow the story is [...]
