By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 14, 2009
More motivation to attend today’s summit, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Seattle City Hall: BikePortland: Good links and commentary on Texas tandem mowdown. Yes it was an unfortunate accident, but hey, it’s vehicular manslaughter any way you cut it. SeattleLikesBikes is tracking bike deaths statistically. Even a casual glance shows that most bike deaths do [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged Advocacy, bicycle deaths
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 5, 2009
Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club, the nation’s largest local cycling club with more than 11,000 members, continues to do yeoman advocacy work on behalf of cyclists mowed down by careless— and uncaring — drivers. At City Hall from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, the club will host a traffic justice summit with city [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle deaths, cascade bicycle club, David Hiller, traffic justice summit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 5, 2009
In Portland, a hate crime against a cyclist: BikePortland.org is reporting additional details in the arrest for first-degree assault of Wayne Conrad Thompson, who viciously backed over Michael Luther, who was riding a bike. “he cyclist had been knocked out of his shoes and his helmet was a few feet from his head,” a bystander [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle accidents, bicycle deaths, bicycle hate crimes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 1, 2009
New York Times: A former attorney general for Ontario has been charged with killing a bicycle courier in a road rage incident that is simply hard to believe. Michael Bryant, apparently a tough enforcement official when he was in office, hit the cyclist, who apparently held onto Bryant’s car in an attempt to save himself [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle deaths, bicycle hate crimes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 31, 2009
The links are flying on a (supposedly) new study that (supposedly) found drivers are to blame for 9 out of 10 bike–car accidents. This situation cries out for journalistic followup, but for now let’s see if we can clear the air a bit. A Toronto study we reported on (along with Freakonomics, which was then [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle deaths, bicycle safety, cycling deaths, cycling safety
