Category: Biking Elsewhere

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Bad drivers, dead bicyclists

Let’s save for another time the argument about reckless bicyclists, the crazies who blow through stop signs, ride the wrong way and act like they own the road.
Timothy O’Donnell wasn’t one of those cyclists.
He was a 66-year-old cyclist properly signaling a left turn on Cornelius-Schefflin Road on Saturday when he was struck and killed by a car driven by a woman with a suspended license. She hit O’Donnell when she tried to pass him and four other riders.
This case has nothing to do with cycling behavior. It has everything to do with how Oregon law treats cyclists like roadkill, even when they are run over by careless motorists.
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Numbers State The Obvious, Portlanders Love Bikes And Busses

By Andrew Theen – OPB
The percentage of Portlanders who bike to work is 8 times the national average. That’s according to data from the 2005 American Community Survey, or ACS.
The ACS is an annual, and census officials say, more thorough version of the once-a-decade census.
Portland City Auditor Gary Blackmer says having so much accurate yearly data allows policy-makers to raise up to date questions with city leaders.
Gary Blackmer: "There’s been huge growth in bicycling, in walking. Let’s focus on multi-modal transportation. Let’s not say it’s either cars or mass transit. What are the other ways that we can get people to their jobs."
Portland and Multnomah County were original test areas for the American Community Survey a decade ago. The ACS will officially replace the long-form census in 2010.
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Ecotour to Germany 2007

Baltimore-Towson, Maryland, 28.May.2007: Green Harmony Tours has organized a
unique summer ecotour to Germany titled “Adventure Ecotour of Germany 2007:
Discovering Saxony’s Secret Green Architecture and Gardens”, which occurs
August 24 – September 5, 2007.

The tour director, Roland Oehme, his wife Naoko Oehme, and Achim Muller will
be your personal tour guides on this unique tour. Roland’s father, Wolfgang
Oehme, the world renowned, German-born landscape architect, will also make
appearances on the tour. Roland, his father Wolfgang, and Achim have gained
special insights from years of practice in landscape architecture and garden
design, and from many years of travel to Germany visiting its significant
buildings, parks, gardens, and unique garden shows.

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Kid

Prosecutors in Lewis County, W.Va., are reviewing a bicycle accident last week that killed a 58-year-old newspaper publisher to determine if a teenager’s prank amounted to criminal liability in the death.
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Driving ourselves SICK

By Eric M. Weiss, Washington Post
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"You tell someone they need to exercise or go to physical therapy, but how can they? They leave at 5 a.m. and get home at 7 or 8 p.m. at night," said Robert Squillante, an orthopedic surgeon in Fredericksburg, Va., who has treated patients for back pain and other commuting-related problems.
Constant road vibrations and sitting in the same position for a long time are bad for the neck and spine, he said, and put special pressure on the bottom disc in the lower back, the one most likely to deteriorate over time.
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