Category: Bicycle Advocacy
I'm trying to hammer through our 2005 federal tax return before the mid-April deadline, and I come across a tax break reminder for hybrid car owners. I started thinking, “Why not bike commuters?”
The owners of fuel-efficient hybrids are being reminded to report their $2,000 tax deduction if they bought their hybrid before the end of 2005. Anyone who buys one this year might be eligible for up to a $3,400 tax credit, depending on the make and model, when they file in 2007.
But how about bicyclists? Don't they reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels to a big fat ZERO? …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/29/hybrid-cars-sure-but-wheres-that-tax-incentive-for-bicycle-commuters/
Moses Mathis, known as “The Bicycle Man” throughout the Sand Hills of North Carolina, might have to saddle up and move out over a lease dispute with the owner of the warehouse.
Mathis has been repairing children's bicycles and giving them away since 1991. The Tiffany Pines Community Outreach Center, which he founded in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has given away more than 8,000 bicycles to area children; 700 this past Christmas alone. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/25/center-for-donated-bicycles-may-close-in-north-carolina/
When it comes to poor bike lane designs and obstructions, some of the worst can be seen at the Warrington (UK) Cycle Campaign website.
Pete Owens has been collecting photos of truly bizarre bike lane attractions from around the UK since 2001. This image of a phone booth erected in a bicycle path is just one of dozens chosen as a winner in his “Cycle Facility of the Month” contest. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/24/mother-of-all-bike-lane-blunders/
“Every time I see a cyclist go over the Golden Gate Bridge and then look like he's lost and doesn't know what to do next, I think, 'We can do better than this.'” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/23/bicycle-quote-marin-county-plans-hiking-and-biking-trails/
(See update below: “Back to reality”) Joe at the BikingToronto blog has an excellent summary of 8 strategies he uses to deal with traffic on his daily commute. He put in a lot of work on this and it's worth a look and a read.
You're probably familiar with most, if not all of these; I've read them all before, except one, at one place or another but it's always good to review. A couple are controversial, especially the debate between “taking the lane” or “staying way the hell to the right.” Another of his secrets is a pretty good piece of common sense. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/17/8-ways-to-avoid-becoming-a-statistic-while-bicycling/
There's a split log “park bench” at the top of Dreaded Hill in the Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County, California.
It marks the approximate location where Mark Reynolds was attacked by a mountain lion as he fixed the chain on his mountain bike and was killed in 2004. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/14/cougars-attack-of-mountain-biker-leads-to-bike-fund-for-kids/
Cyclists who feel a bottomless need to protest big oil and the use of non-renewable energy take to the streets twice a year — depending on their hemisphere — in the World Naked Bike Ride.
March 12 was the southern hemisphere's turn; protesting cyclists in the northern hemisphere take to the streets on June 10.
Explains the World Naked Bike Ride website:
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/13/critical-mass-not-to-your-liking-how-about-cycling-naked/
Does two make a trend? I certainly hope not.
Following the January story about a Portland bus driver who let a passenger off his bus to sucker-punch a bicyclist comes story from California that a bus driver intentionally ran a cyclist off the road, injuring the rider and crushing the bike.
The Marin Independent Journal reports that a driver for Golden Gate …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/28/bus-vs-bike-ii/
What's a bike path cost these days? The so-called Broida Expressway at UC-Santa Barbara cost $583 per foot.
The 900-foot, 12-foot-wide, bicycle path was completed at a cost of $525,000 recently to link the east and west sides of the campus, according to the UC Santa Barbara student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.
The cost was covered by a $3 per student …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/06/new-bike-path-at-santa-barbara-necessary-but-costly/
A state court judge sentenced the wife of a Utah ski resort owner to six months home confinement with an ankle monitor and probation in the 2004 death of cyclist Josie Johnson, left, as she rode at the edge of a winding canyon road.
A jury in December convicted Elizabeth DeSeelhorst, 67, of negligent homicide in the death of Johnson, 25, a graduate …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/06/utah-woman-confined-to-home-for-6-months-in-death-of-bicyclist/
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