See update: Feb. 21, 2013 — Missouri legislator goes ahead and files bike ban bill
Here we are, less than two weeks after the Colorado Supreme Court overturned a bicycle ban in the town of Black Hawk, and the issue of banning bicycles from the roadway is back again — this time in Missouri.
The …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/02/19/proposal-for-bicycle-ban-raised-in-missouri/
Thanks to all those bicyclists who are heading to Olympia today for Transportation Advocacy Day.
One bicycle-friendly Senate bill that’s on tap for a hearing Tuesday would make it legal for motorists to cross over a double-yellow line to give safe passage to bicyclists or pedestrians. The bill defines safe passage as a 3-foot gap.
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/02/12/safe-passing-bill-hearing-in-olympia-today-supports-bicycling/
President Obama’s choice of REI CEO Sally Jewell as his nomination for Secretary of the Interior should be good news for bicycling.
If approved by Congress, the top exec of the Kent, Washington-based company will head up the department that oversees the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management. Bicycling issues — especially regarding …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/02/07/interior-deparment-nominee-understands-bicycling-issues-says-bike-industry/
Sometimes it’s worth fighting that ticket all the way to the Supreme Court.
Three Colorado bicyclists, supported by the advocacy group Bicycle Colorado, learned that on Monday.
Not only were their tickets thrown out, but a local law that might have had dire consequences as a precedent against bicyclists’ rights also was thrown out.
The …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/02/04/victory-colorado-supreme-court-overturns-black-hawk-bicycle-ban/
City planners for Bellevue, home to the BikingBis blog, are beginning to consider a vision for the future in an updated Comprehensive Plan.
That future should include the goal of making Bellevue a platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community.
Transportation always ranks as a big problem in Bellevue. Part of that stems from belonging to the Seattle …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/01/27/bicyclists-need-to-be-heard-in-bellevue-wa/
So many of the new products for bicycling seem like the same old thing updated — new styles of clothes, new styles of panniers, new styles of helmets, new styles of rain wear …
But this commuter in London has created something that I think could be truly useful — a bicycle barometer.
Essentially, Richard Pope developed a device that tells him whether its a better day to use his bicycle or the subway to get to work. ….
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/01/25/something-useful-for-commuters-a-bicycle-barometer/
It’s pretty obvious that the LAPD motorcycle cop in this video either doesn’t know the traffic laws regarding bicycles, or simply chooses not to refer to them.
The cop is filmed on a Venice bicycle path giving a speeding ticket to a bicyclist who minutes earlier had complained that the policeman’s motorcycle was blocking the path. The bicyclist is identified by NBCLosAngeles.com as Peter Jackson, 34, of Venice.
Jackson argues with the policeman, who tells him on camera: “The reason why I’m going to write you for unsafe speed is because you are arguing with me….”
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/01/22/just-what-are-the-laws-for-bicycles-in-your-state/
Two brothers are developing a horn that enables cyclists to be heard, if not seen, on their bicycles.
Called Loud Bicycle, the small horn is activated by a button on the handlebars and blares with the same loudness and pitch of a car horn.
Says Loud Bicycle developer Jonathan Landsey:
“Drivers react to car horns …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2013/01/07/bicycle-horn-gets-motorists-attention-in-a-hurry/
Bicycling deaths were on the rise in 2011.
A report issued by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration finds that 677 bicyclists died in traffic in 2011. That’s a 8.7% increase over 2010, when 623 bicyclists died.
That reverses a trend of two straight years of decreasing fatalities for bicyclists. The number of bicyclist deaths …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2012/12/11/bicycle-fatalities-increase-in-2011/
If it’s time for Republicans and Democrats to get along to avoid the fiscal cliff, maybe bicyclists and motorists should be working together as well.
That might be the message behind the League of American Bicyclists announcement that the keynote speaker for the 2013 National Bike Summit in Washington DC will be Yolanda Cade, national …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2012/12/10/surprising-keynote-speaker-for-2013-national-bike-summit/
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