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Posted by Elly Blue on June 15th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
What does the word accident mean?
A mistake, but not just any mistake
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
By Terry Judd
He was taking in the early morning air as he rode his bicycle down Grand Haven’s Washington Avenue early Memorial Day morning to catch a 65-mile group bike ride to Allendale and back.
But as he approached Beacon Boulevard, the driver of a pickup truck yelled for him to get off the street and onto the sidewalk. The cyclist yelled back that he had every right to be on the street.
Then it got ugly, according to the cyclist, who asked that his name not be used because of safety concerns.
The truck screeched to a stop and seconds later the two were standing face to face exchanging words and expletives. Then, without warning, the driver slugged the cyclist in the face. The cyclist hit back, knocking the driver to the ground.
"You’re lucky I didn’t have a gun," the motorist said as he got back into his truck and the cyclist rode off.
Welcome to the latest version of road rage — car-bike style.
Continue reading “Driver-cyclist road rage seems to be on rise”

I was rudely accosted, assaulted with battery, and tased at Minneapolis St Paul USA international airport by Airport Police, simply for choosing to leave the airport by bicycle. I had broken no laws. I use a bicycle as a significant part of my daily mode of travel. I have legally cycled to and from airports internationally including 3 of the 4 major London airports, with no problems. I was using my bicycle completely in accord with MN Statutes and Metropolitan Airport Commission Ordinances.

But the police say he failed to obey the sign “NO PEDS BY ORDER OF AIRPORT POLICE”

Continue reading “Cyclist tased while leaving an airport by bike”

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.
Continue reading “Bad drivers, dead bicyclists”

By AARON CLARK / Associated Press
Drivers who pass dangerously close to cyclists on Oregon’s roads could be slapped with a $360 traffic violation under a bill passed in the House Wednesday.
Continue reading “Lawmakers advance bill to protect cyclists on Oregon roads”

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.
Continue reading “Numbers State The Obvious, Portlanders Love Bikes And Busses”