Cyclists in South Dakota saved their rights to use the public highways as vehicles. Chalk up the statehouse victory to some fast moving bicycle advocates.
When the House recently passed a bill, HB1190, that would ensure that drunken driving laws didn't apply to bicyclists or folks on horseback, they did it by changing the law to omit bicycles and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/01/bicycle-advocacy-works-in-south-dakota/
I laughed out loud when I first read the article from South Dakota that intoxicated bicyclists might soon be able to ride around without fear of being arrested for drunken driving.
The laughing stopped when I discovered the bigger implications of the proposed bill.
Last week state legislators had passed a bill out of committee — it still needs to be approved …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/31/bike-advocates-in-south-dakota-oppose-losing-vehicle-status/
Can you turn your enthusiasm for cycling into a career in bicycle advocacy? It's time to find out.
Thanks in part to the $286 billion transporation bill approved last year by Congress, several positions for bike advocates have become available — one with a national bike group and two others in cities that won the $25 million pilot program windfall….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/31/help-wanted-bike-advocates/
Right on the heels of news and film of a bus passenger punching a cyclist in Portland comes these pictures of a motorist from Toronto attacking a female bicycle courier and her bike.
I know the bus pictures are a year old and the Toronto assault happened recently, but things are getting insane.
According to an account from the courier, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/30/another-attack-on-cyclist-this-time-in-toronto/
The 21 best US cities for cycling — and three of the worst — are touted in the March issue of Bicycling magazine.
Writer Brian Fiske appears to have made the choices based on several factors, such as availability of bike lanes and bike paths in the cities, the strength of bicycle advocacy groups, the city government's willingness to support …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/25/best-and-worst-cities-for-cyclists/
I was returning from a bike ride on Christmas Eve when I paused, then started to make a left turn at a four-way stop in my neighborhood.
A brown Ford Explorer pulls out in the intersection toward me. I sit up in the saddle, yell, “Hey,” and point at myself then him — sign language for “First me, then you.”
He blows his horn, I look back (by this time I'm out of the intersection) and flip the bird at him and his laughing buddy. Then …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/18/to-flip-or-not-to-flip-that-is-the-question/
A Portland bike activist is suing the city's public transit agency in an assault case that was caught on film by the bus's cameras.
The BikePortland.org website is covering the case in which bike advocate and city employee Randy Albright claims a TriMet bus nearly struck him as it passed.
Angered, Albright caught up with the bus, pulled up in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/18/bus-passenger-assaults-cyclist-in-portland-on-film/
Cynthia Watros, one of the stars of ABC's “Lost” TV series, has lost her driver's license after she pleaded guilty on Thursday to drunken driving.
The Honolulu Star Bulletin reports that Watros and co-star Michelle Rodriguez were arrested in separate vehicles about midnight Dec. 1 when their cars began to “weave all over the right lane and into the bicycle lane. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/13/lost-star-just-that-swerves-in-and-out-of-bike-lane/
Sitting here contemplating if it's ever going to stop raining long enough for me to ride my bike to renew my driver's license, and I come across Bike Tubes in the Sky at Bicycle Design.
James writes about a Toronto architect, Chris Hardwicke, who has come up with the idea of building a bike transit system in his city that …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/12/going-tubular-on-bicycles/
A New York City judge has ruled that NYPD's requirement that Critical Mass participants need a parade permit is unconsititutional.
New York Newsday reports a criminal court judge in Manhattan said the charge of parading without a permit is “overly broad” and “unconstitutional on its face.”
Some 2,100 cyclists have been arrested for parading without a permit, which has been …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/11/nyc-judge-critical-mass-needs-no-parade-permit/
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