If you ever, heaven forbid, get injured in a traffic collision while riding your bike in Fort Collins, Colorado, at least you won’t have to leave your bicycle behind.
That’s because a hospital in the platinum-level bicycle-friendly community has equipped 14 ambulances with front-mounted bicycle racks.
Steve Main, director of emergency medical services for Poudre Valley …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/01/24/essential-ambulance-equipment-in-fort-collins-co-bicycle-racks/
State legislatures in Indiana, Wyoming and South Dakota are considering bills this year that would require that motorists give bicyclists a 3-foot gap when passing.
(March 19, 2015 — Other states considering passing laws — Alabama (SB 4 — 5 foot passing law passed Senate, goes to House; Massachusetts Bill H.3073 names bicyclists as vulnerable users and requires …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/01/22/2-states-consider-bicycle-bills-requiring-3-foot-passing/
A newly released economic study of outdoor recreation in Washington state finds that bicycling contributes $3.1 billion a year to the state’s economy.
That’s the fourth highest economic impact among the major outdoor pursuits listed in the study, following only Sightseeing and Nature (1), all types of Boating (2), and Hiking, Climbing, Camping (3).
And participation in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2015/01/20/bicycling-means-big-bucks-in-washington-state-ranks-3rd-in-outdoor-recreation-spending/
A jury in Houston, Texas, chose not to “blame the victim” in a hit-and-run fatality of a bicyclist and instead sentenced the motorist to 15 years in prison on Thursday.
The defense attorney for the motorist told the jurors that the collision would have been avoided if the bicyclist, Chelsea Norman, 24, had been riding elsewhere.
“If …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/12/11/driver-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-hit-n-run-cyclist-fatality/
Thanks to the bike advocates and city officials in places as different as Honolulu and Fargo, there are now bicycle friendly communities in all 50 states.
The League of American Bicyclists announced its newest round of 23 communities that earned bike-friendly status last week. That makes a grand total of 325 communities across the US …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/11/24/you-can-find-a-bike-friendly-community-in-all-50-states/
A report by a national highway safety association is shining a spotlight on the increase in bicyclist deaths in traffic.
Newspapers and other media outlets are reporting that bicycle traffic deaths have been on the rise since hitting a 10-year-low in 2009, a fact that many bicycle advocates already have been tracking. Reports from California and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/10/29/traffic-related-bicycling-deaths-on-the-rise-in-many-states/
Twenty-five institutions of higher learning earned passing grades to achieve a spot on the League of American Bicyclists list of Bicycle Friendly Universities this fall.
In addition, eight universities renewed their membership in the program; in seven of those renewals, the universities moved up on the list to either silver or gold level. The University of Washington …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/10/24/universities-pass-the-test-for-bicycle-friendly-status-uw-moves-up-to-gold-level/
Oct. 3, 2014 — The St. Louis County Police Department has Sunset Hills Mayor Mark Furrer with 2 felonies in connection with allegations that he intentionally ran a bicyclist off the road with his car.
Furrer was charged with one count of second-degree assault and one count of first-degree property damage, according to reports in the Call …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/10/03/did-missouri-mayor-intentionally-hit-cyclist/
Twenty-eight businesses in West Coast and Pacific Northwest states joined or moved up on the League of American Bicyclists’ newest list of Bicycle Friendly Businesses.
One-hundred-and-fifty new and renewing businesses in 39 states and the District of Columbia made the list this fall — the most ever. The overall list of Bicycle Friendly Businesses contains 800 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/09/24/new-bicycle-friendly-businesses-in-california-idaho-oregon-and-washington/
A deaf and blind bicyclist touring in the United States has returned to his home country of Norway to recover after being struck from behind by a motorist.
The cyclist — Harald Vik, 71 — was riding in the stoker position on a tandem bicycle when the collision occurred near Sioux Falls, Iowa South Dakota, last …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/09/23/deaf-and-blind-tandem-cyclist-ends-bike-tour-after-traffic-collision/
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