Category: Bicycle Advocacy
Bike Colorado is hosting a rally next Tuesday to protest the bicycle ban imposed earlier this month in the tiny gambling town of Black Hawk.
The Rally to End Bike Bans is scheduled from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver. Everyone is welcome to attend. Check the Facebook page for more details.
The statewide bicycle advocacy group is fighting the ban because they fear it may set a precedent for other cities that take the wrong-headed approach to impose a bicycle ban to “promote safety.” That's how Black Hawk City Manager Bill Copp explained the ban a couple of weeks ago …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/25/colorado-bicyclists-to-protest-black-hawks-bike-ban/
Bike lanes in Florida are no longer places for bicyclists to ride based on their own judgment of conditions at the time.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill into law that requires bicyclists to use the bike lanes if they are painted on a road. Failure to do so will lead to a ticket.
There are exceptions, such as when the bicyclist is making a left turn, or if there are potholes, or tire-trapping storm grates, or glass, or fallen tree limbs, or parked cars, or road construction signs, or a dead armadillo or whatever other kind of crap finds a home for itself in a bike lane in Florida.
But what bicyclist wants to explain those exceptions to a traffic cop or to an upset motorist who feels ownership of the road, the whole road, and everything on the road…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/22/if-theres-a-bike-lane-bicyclists-in-florida-must-use-it/
Bicycling advocates reacted with outrage this past week to news of Black Hawk, Colorado's ban on bicycling on most streets in town.
Bicycle Colorado, Adventure Cycling Association and the League of American Bicyclists are all asking their thousands of members to contact city officials to rescind the ban.
Perhaps the tiny gambling town west of Denver should have folded instead of playing its hand to prohibit bicycles from most city streets last January. Now the city is the target of some unwanted publicity, at least from bicyclists.
Word about the ban got out last week when some bicyclists complained about $68 tickets ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/13/bad-days-in-black-hawk-colorado/
The newest and largest bike-sharing program in the U.S. begins operation on Thursday as Nice Ride Minnesota puts 700 bicycles on the streets of Minneapolis at 65 kiosks.
Phase 1 plans call for 1,000 of the distinctive lime-green bikes parked at 75 kiosks around town, including 10 kiosks on the University of Minnesota campus. Long-range plans call for spreading the system to St. Paul as well.
The Nice Ride Minnesota launch follows the Denver B-cycle launch in mid-April; it's now operating with 400 bicycles at 42 stations. Boston will be the next bike-share system to roll out in the U.S. later in 2010, followed by a second bike-share program for the Washington DC-Arlington ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/09/newest-bike-sharing-system-nice-ride-minnesota-launches-thursday/
Riding a bicycle is banned on many streets in Black Hawk, Colorado, and police are enforcing the law by ticketing violators.
The old mining town west of Denver created the bike-free zones in January.
While many cities in Colorado and the US are working to make streets safer and more accessible to residents who choose bicycles over motor vehicles, Black Hawk simply made bicycling illegal on most streets.
Black Hawk City Manager Bill Copp told TheDenverChannel.com.
“If you go down Main Street there is not much room for a bicyclist, a bus or a car, a truck. We are trying to promote safety. … It's a choice. We made our choice and now the bicyclist needs to make his or her choice.” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/08/banned-in-black-hawk-bicycles-off-limits-on-most-roads-in-colorado-town/
Four Los Angeles policemen got starring roles in a video shot in Hollywood on Friday night, but their actions earned them desk jobs while the department investigates their clash with bicyclists.
This video shot by a witness shows police officers making an arrest during a critical mass ride on Friday night, then one of the policemen kicking at a passing bicycle.
Several policemen then go to the witness. The camera falls but continues filming while police, carrying nightsticks, order the man to “Get down” and “Get up!”
The video has been viewed more than 91,000 times at YouTube and is reminiscent of a video …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/03/internal-probe-of-cops-actions-during-critical-mass-bike-ride/
Six bicyclists injured a few years ago on the newly laid South Lake Union Trolley (S.L.U.T.) tracks are suing Seattle.
The Seattle Times reports that the lawsuit claims that the city was warned about the unsafe conditions before the December 2007 opening of the trolley line, but it went ahead with its plans anyway.
The tracks were installed in a groove in the pavement that can catch narrow road-bike tires and flip a bike. Dozens of cyclists fell victim to the tracks.
Since the opening of the 1.3-mile trolley line, the city has installed warning signs …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/02/bicyclists-sue-seattle-for-slut-injuries/
A judge sentenced an Illinois man to 9 years in prison for running down a 65-year-old California man on a coast-to-coast bicycle tour last summer.
Jim Gafney, left, of Chula Vista, California, was more than half way along on his “Mad As Hell Bike Ride Across the US” to deliver a petition to Washington DC when he was struck down on an Illinois highway.
Gafney had taken to riding his bicycle at night because of an oppressive hot spell sweeping the midwest. The driver later told police that he saw Gafney when he crested a hill on US 50 but was unable to stop his 1997 Nissan Altima in time. He was arrested later by police ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/27/9-year-sentence-in-hit-run-death-of-california-bike-traveler/
Bicycle City sounds like a mythical Valhalla where bicycling enthusiasts go when they pass away.
In reality, a group of environmentally friendly developers are creating a Bicycle City in the countryside south of Columbia, South Carolina, where cars will be verboten and residents will ride their bikes or walk to get around.
The community is the idea of Joe Mellett, a Internet marketer who sold Education.org to Monster.com about four years ago to get the seed money for the project. But the project is far past the idea phase. Mellett and his co-developers are presenting their plans to the Lexington County Council this week and hope to get started in the fall.
The Bicycle City group already has bought 150 acres near the town of Gaston …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/25/bicycle-only-community-underway-in-south-carolina/
For the third year in a row, the League of American Bicyclists has ranked Washington state at the top of its list of Bicycle Friendly States.
That's quite an honor for bicycle advocates and state officials in the Emerald State, which has led the list ever since it was conceived in 2008.
Wisconsin and Maine follow in 2nd and 3rd place, according to the rankings announced Wednesday. Oregon dropped for the first time from 4th to 5th, supplanted by Minnesota.
Alabama held a firm grip on last place for the second year in a row. Other bottom feeders were New Mexico (46), West Virginia (47), Montana (48) and North Dakota (49). ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/19/washington-is-the-no-1-bicycle-friendly-state-in-2010/
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