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http://www.mercurynews.com/eat-drink-play/ci_28585586/travel-top-10-best-urban-bike-paths 
Unfortunately, mine didn't make the list.
Unfortunately, mine didn't make the list.
Bike Friendly City?
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http://www.myfoxla.com/story/297694...ike-friendly-mobility-plan-over-next-20-years
Will I live to see it? My doctor said he could keep me alive for twenty more years. I fired him. That was ten years ago. :lol:
Will I live to see it? My doctor said he could keep me alive for twenty more years. I fired him. That was ten years ago. :lol:
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http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=174591 
Supervisor John Avalos on Wednesday announced plans to introduce an ordinance to make citations for bicyclists who “safely yield at stop signs” the SFPD’s lowest law enforcement priority.
The proposal is called the “San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy,” but it closely dovetails what is commonly called the “Idaho Stop.” That state law allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign if no vehicles or pedestrians are present at an intersection.
Yielding at stop signs when no cars are present is a natural cyclist behavior, bike advocates argue, for safety and momentum. Now those cyclists may get their wish: Yielding at stop signs may soon be quasi-legal.
The announcement follows a recent police crackdown on cyclists rolling through stop signs, which prompted an outcry from San Francisco bike riders.
The number of cyclists in San Francisco has boomed in recent years, Avalos noted in his announcement. The SFMTA’s Annual Bicycle Count shows bicycle traffic has increased 206% since 2006.
“This dramatic increase in bicycle traffic has led to an increase in conflicts between bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers,” Avalos said, in a statement. Board of Supervisors President London Breed told the Examiner she supports the “Idaho Stop.”
The Board of Supervisors is currently in recess and will reconvene in September.
Managing enforcement priority is not a new police practice. Low-level drug offense enforcement has been a much lower priority for SFPD than violent crime in San Francisco, starting around 2013.
Cmdr. Ann Mannix, who heads the traffic division, told the San Francisco Examiner previously, in an email, “If the public, legislators, voters want us to enforce anything else they must create it and get adopted as law.”
From Avalos’ announcement of the ordinance:
Supervisor Avalos’s proposed ordinance would make it the lowest law enforcement priority in San Francisco to issue citations for bicyclists who safely yield at stop signs. However the ordinance would not discourage officers from citing bicyclists who fail to slow to a safe speed at stop signs or fail to yield to another vehicle or pedestrian.
The ordinance would also establish the “San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy:”
To promote safety, tolerance, and harmony on our streets, all users of San Francisco streets shall respect others right-of-way and take their turn when navigating intersections.
All users of SF streets shall yield to emergency vehicles.
All users of SF streets shall yield to Muni vehicles.
Drivers and bicyclists shall always yield to pedestrians and be vigilantly aware of pedestrians.
Bicyclists shall always yield to others at intersections, but they may slowly proceed without fully stopping at stop signs if the intersection is empty.
Supervisor John Avalos on Wednesday announced plans to introduce an ordinance to make citations for bicyclists who “safely yield at stop signs” the SFPD’s lowest law enforcement priority.
The proposal is called the “San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy,” but it closely dovetails what is commonly called the “Idaho Stop.” That state law allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign if no vehicles or pedestrians are present at an intersection.
Yielding at stop signs when no cars are present is a natural cyclist behavior, bike advocates argue, for safety and momentum. Now those cyclists may get their wish: Yielding at stop signs may soon be quasi-legal.
The announcement follows a recent police crackdown on cyclists rolling through stop signs, which prompted an outcry from San Francisco bike riders.
The number of cyclists in San Francisco has boomed in recent years, Avalos noted in his announcement. The SFMTA’s Annual Bicycle Count shows bicycle traffic has increased 206% since 2006.
“This dramatic increase in bicycle traffic has led to an increase in conflicts between bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers,” Avalos said, in a statement. Board of Supervisors President London Breed told the Examiner she supports the “Idaho Stop.”
The Board of Supervisors is currently in recess and will reconvene in September.
Managing enforcement priority is not a new police practice. Low-level drug offense enforcement has been a much lower priority for SFPD than violent crime in San Francisco, starting around 2013.
Cmdr. Ann Mannix, who heads the traffic division, told the San Francisco Examiner previously, in an email, “If the public, legislators, voters want us to enforce anything else they must create it and get adopted as law.”
From Avalos’ announcement of the ordinance:
Supervisor Avalos’s proposed ordinance would make it the lowest law enforcement priority in San Francisco to issue citations for bicyclists who safely yield at stop signs. However the ordinance would not discourage officers from citing bicyclists who fail to slow to a safe speed at stop signs or fail to yield to another vehicle or pedestrian.
The ordinance would also establish the “San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy:”
To promote safety, tolerance, and harmony on our streets, all users of San Francisco streets shall respect others right-of-way and take their turn when navigating intersections.
All users of SF streets shall yield to emergency vehicles.
All users of SF streets shall yield to Muni vehicles.
Drivers and bicyclists shall always yield to pedestrians and be vigilantly aware of pedestrians.
Bicyclists shall always yield to others at intersections, but they may slowly proceed without fully stopping at stop signs if the intersection is empty.
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http://yle.fi/uutiset/motorist_suspected_of_manslaughter_after_toolo_cyclists_death/8228789 
A middle-aged male driver is suspected of manslaughter over a collision that occurred in Töölö, Helsinki on Wednesday and claimed the life of a cyclist. The man is to be jailed on Saturday at latest.
A middle-aged man is currently suspected of manslaughter after eyewitnesses claimed he intentionally drove into a cyclist in the district of Töölö in Helsinki. The man is also suspected of a hit-and-run, as he allegedly fled the scene of the crime.
Helsinki police will move to imprison the man on Saturday at latest, says chief inspector Tuomo Lotta. Police have yet to comment further on the case.
The bicyclist was hit by a passenger car at the intersection of Tukholmankatu and Mannerheimintie on Wednesday, and subsequently died of his injuries in Töölö hospital.
A middle-aged male driver is suspected of manslaughter over a collision that occurred in Töölö, Helsinki on Wednesday and claimed the life of a cyclist. The man is to be jailed on Saturday at latest.
A middle-aged man is currently suspected of manslaughter after eyewitnesses claimed he intentionally drove into a cyclist in the district of Töölö in Helsinki. The man is also suspected of a hit-and-run, as he allegedly fled the scene of the crime.
Helsinki police will move to imprison the man on Saturday at latest, says chief inspector Tuomo Lotta. Police have yet to comment further on the case.
The bicyclist was hit by a passenger car at the intersection of Tukholmankatu and Mannerheimintie on Wednesday, and subsequently died of his injuries in Töölö hospital.
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"Cyclist Killed After Hitting Parked Car"
http://www.newportbeachindy.com/cyclist-killed-after-hitting-parked-car/
Easy solution maybe? Just lay any new tarmac with wires to transmit a short range yell phone signal blocker.
(Hope I spelled "cell phone" correctly here!)
http://www.newportbeachindy.com/cyclist-killed-after-hitting-parked-car/
Easy solution maybe? Just lay any new tarmac with wires to transmit a short range yell phone signal blocker.
(Hope I spelled "cell phone" correctly here!)
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A better solution is make cars that drive themselves, prohibit faulty guidance systems (e.g. human beings), and let people do whatever they like with their phones.
Looking at drunk driving enforcement methods, you'd think that the problem was drinking, not driving. But it's only the driving part that's deadly, which is true even when the callous self-entitled idiot is sober.
Looking at drunk driving enforcement methods, you'd think that the problem was drinking, not driving. But it's only the driving part that's deadly, which is true even when the callous self-entitled idiot is sober.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ver-by-bus-during-demonstration-10458134.html :x
A follow up to Saturday's post.
A follow up to Saturday's post.
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Chalo said:
Plus One/Thumb Up on all of above.
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http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ge...ionally-hit-by-car-on-vallejo-sidewalk-friday 
A Vallejo man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Friday night after allegedly running down a bicyclist on a Vallejo sidewalk with a car, a Vallejo Police Department spokesman said Monday.
Lt. Kevin Bartlett said a man and woman were riding bikes in the 1100 block of Oakwood Avenue at about 11:45 p.m. when they saw a dark-colored Challenger that turned out to be a rental.
“He was honking at them for some unknown reason, and then passed them, did a u-turn, and stopped near Jackson way,” said Bartlett.
As the bike riders approached, riding on the sidewalk, the driver went after them, he said.
“The Challenger accelerated, rode up on the sidewalk where the biker was, and hit him, throwing him about 20 feet, as he described it,” Bartlett said.
The driver fled the scene, and the bicyclists, who said they had gotten a look at him, but didn’t recognize him, he said. However, someone from the neighborhood did recognize the driver and told police, he said.
“A neighbor saw this happen and knows the suspect, who’s a neighbor from the street who has been acting bizarrely lately,” Bartlett said. “She recognized him as John McPeak, 51.”
Officers later discovered McPeak getting out of a taxi near his house and arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder and booked him into the Solano County Jail, Bartlett said.
The victim, a 54-year-old Vallejo man, sustained serious but non-life-threatening injures, he said. The woman with him was not injured, he said.
The rented Charger was later discovered at a Concord body shop, Bartlett said.
A Vallejo man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Friday night after allegedly running down a bicyclist on a Vallejo sidewalk with a car, a Vallejo Police Department spokesman said Monday.
Lt. Kevin Bartlett said a man and woman were riding bikes in the 1100 block of Oakwood Avenue at about 11:45 p.m. when they saw a dark-colored Challenger that turned out to be a rental.
“He was honking at them for some unknown reason, and then passed them, did a u-turn, and stopped near Jackson way,” said Bartlett.
As the bike riders approached, riding on the sidewalk, the driver went after them, he said.
“The Challenger accelerated, rode up on the sidewalk where the biker was, and hit him, throwing him about 20 feet, as he described it,” Bartlett said.
The driver fled the scene, and the bicyclists, who said they had gotten a look at him, but didn’t recognize him, he said. However, someone from the neighborhood did recognize the driver and told police, he said.
“A neighbor saw this happen and knows the suspect, who’s a neighbor from the street who has been acting bizarrely lately,” Bartlett said. “She recognized him as John McPeak, 51.”
Officers later discovered McPeak getting out of a taxi near his house and arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder and booked him into the Solano County Jail, Bartlett said.
The victim, a 54-year-old Vallejo man, sustained serious but non-life-threatening injures, he said. The woman with him was not injured, he said.
The rented Charger was later discovered at a Concord body shop, Bartlett said.
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http://www.pe.com/articles/traffic-777319-circles-neighborhood.html
Riverside may join other Inland communities in trying out traffic circles as a way to control intersections that are now four-way stops.
The city is proposing that traffic circles replace stop signs at seven intersections in a residential neighborhood near Mount Rubidoux, an area that has already seen its share of conflict over parking restrictions and the increasing popularity of the mountain as a walking spot.
In recent years, traffic circles have been installed in Temecula Valley Wine Country and Yucaipa. Officials are considering them in San Jacinto, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore.
A traffic circle includes a center island around which cars proceed after yielding to other vehicles already in the intersection. The configuration slows drivers down, officials say, and can reduce auto noise and pollution because it doesn’t require cars to stop abruptly or idle as they might at a stop sign.
Some Riverside residents don’t think traffic circles are a good idea for their neighborhood.
The city is inviting input at a community meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at the Dales Senior Center, 3936 Chestnut St.
Terri Jones, 63, who runs a photography business from her Tenth Street home, said after other parking and traffic changes in recent years, the traffic circle proposal is “total overkill ... It’s becoming to the point (where) they’re trying to make is so restrictive, it’s completely inconveniencing the people that live here.”
Riverside may join other Inland communities in trying out traffic circles as a way to control intersections that are now four-way stops.
The city is proposing that traffic circles replace stop signs at seven intersections in a residential neighborhood near Mount Rubidoux, an area that has already seen its share of conflict over parking restrictions and the increasing popularity of the mountain as a walking spot.
In recent years, traffic circles have been installed in Temecula Valley Wine Country and Yucaipa. Officials are considering them in San Jacinto, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore.
A traffic circle includes a center island around which cars proceed after yielding to other vehicles already in the intersection. The configuration slows drivers down, officials say, and can reduce auto noise and pollution because it doesn’t require cars to stop abruptly or idle as they might at a stop sign.
Some Riverside residents don’t think traffic circles are a good idea for their neighborhood.
The city is inviting input at a community meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at the Dales Senior Center, 3936 Chestnut St.
Terri Jones, 63, who runs a photography business from her Tenth Street home, said after other parking and traffic changes in recent years, the traffic circle proposal is “total overkill ... It’s becoming to the point (where) they’re trying to make is so restrictive, it’s completely inconveniencing the people that live here.”
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http://abc7news.com/traffic/sf-offi...end-relations-after-recent-crackdown-/949925/
A recent crackdown on San Francisco bicyclists led to a traffic blocking protest last month.
The target of that anger was San Francisco police Cpt. John Sanford. On Thursday, Sanford hopped on a bike in an unusual outreach effort.
The other day Sanford was a villain in the San Francisco bike community and on Thursday he joined them on a ride through the city.
"I learned a lot," he said.
He heard a lot after a sting where he cited cyclists who he says were blowing through stop signs and red lights.
In response, dozens staged a protest last month. Every bike stopped at every sign that disrupted the flow of traffic. The police crackdown is over for now.
"If we continue to get the complaints, if we continue to observe it, then we have to go into enforcement mode. But what this today is about community coming together," Sanford said.
As part of his outreach, Sanford met with the so-called father of the mountain bike Gary Fisher.
"Let's learn something about each other and let's start to build respect,"
The captain has formed a bike advisory committee. Lena Emmery is a member.
"I think we all have to be grown-ups," Emmery said. "No more lone rangers. We all have to abide by the rules."
Critics say targeted enforcement of bicyclists takes resources away from other efforts to make the streets safer. Even last month's protest organizer is willing to give this new collaboration a chance.
"You want to have good relations, but like I said, we'll see what happens and were those enforcement priorities land," said bicyclist Morgan Fitzgibbons.
The captain says this community bike ride won't be the last.
A recent crackdown on San Francisco bicyclists led to a traffic blocking protest last month.
The target of that anger was San Francisco police Cpt. John Sanford. On Thursday, Sanford hopped on a bike in an unusual outreach effort.
The other day Sanford was a villain in the San Francisco bike community and on Thursday he joined them on a ride through the city.
"I learned a lot," he said.
He heard a lot after a sting where he cited cyclists who he says were blowing through stop signs and red lights.
In response, dozens staged a protest last month. Every bike stopped at every sign that disrupted the flow of traffic. The police crackdown is over for now.
"If we continue to get the complaints, if we continue to observe it, then we have to go into enforcement mode. But what this today is about community coming together," Sanford said.
As part of his outreach, Sanford met with the so-called father of the mountain bike Gary Fisher.
"Let's learn something about each other and let's start to build respect,"
The captain has formed a bike advisory committee. Lena Emmery is a member.
"I think we all have to be grown-ups," Emmery said. "No more lone rangers. We all have to abide by the rules."
Critics say targeted enforcement of bicyclists takes resources away from other efforts to make the streets safer. Even last month's protest organizer is willing to give this new collaboration a chance.
"You want to have good relations, but like I said, we'll see what happens and were those enforcement priorities land," said bicyclist Morgan Fitzgibbons.
The captain says this community bike ride won't be the last.
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http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4372215-181/police-ticket-30-drivers-for
If you were among those drivers ticketed in downtown Santa Rosa on Thursday for violating pedestrian or bicycle rights-of-way or related offenses, you weren’t alone. Law enforcement officers issued 30 such citations, as well as 23 others, over the course of a four-hour operation designed to improve bike and pedestrian safety, Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Mike Numainville said.
The special operation involved 13 officers from Santa Rosa, Windsor and Petaluma police departments, as well as the CHP.
Offenses included right-of-way violations, as well as illegal use of cell phones, failure to yield and failure to use safety belts, police said.
If you were among those drivers ticketed in downtown Santa Rosa on Thursday for violating pedestrian or bicycle rights-of-way or related offenses, you weren’t alone. Law enforcement officers issued 30 such citations, as well as 23 others, over the course of a four-hour operation designed to improve bike and pedestrian safety, Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Mike Numainville said.
The special operation involved 13 officers from Santa Rosa, Windsor and Petaluma police departments, as well as the CHP.
Offenses included right-of-way violations, as well as illegal use of cell phones, failure to yield and failure to use safety belts, police said.
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http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_347ca2e6-4c51-11e5-b0aa-87e73b23a5b7.html PCH=Death Alley
A cyclist died after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Pacific Coast Highway near Zuma Beach on Sunday, Aug. 23.
Sheriffs responded to the scene of the collision at Busch Drive around 8:30 p.m., according to Sgt. John Lecrivain with the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station.
“Units are on scene of a vehicle vs. pedestrian collision on PCH at Busch Drive, near the entrance to Zuma Beach,” Lecrivain wrote in an alert from the station.
Both eastbound lanes and one westbound lane of PCH were closed after the collision as authorities further investigated the scene.
The male victim was airlifted from the scene to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and was initially reported to have “serious but not life threatening injuries.”
“It happened at about 8:30 p.m.,” Detective Richard Curry said. “A person was riding a bicycle across the highway, crossed the highway and was struck by a vehicle. He was transported to the hospital and died around 12:30 a.m.”
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner Coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter confirmed the Monday morning fatality.
“A 48-year-old male involved in the collision died on Aug. 24 at Ronald Reagan,” Winter said. “He might be a transient.”
Authorities believe the victim was a local homeless man, but cannot confirm the victim’s identity until notifying next of kin.
Further information surrounding the driver of the vehicle and the vehicle involved in the collision is currently unavailable.
The early Monday morning fatality raised the total number of deaths on PCH in 2015 to five, just months after City Council approved the PCH Safety Study, a $20 million plan for improvements along the highway.
A male pedestrian was struck and killed near the same stretch of highway on June 2. Eleven days later, Dewayne Coleman was killed after a truck careened into his parked vehicle on June 13.
In late March, a 21-year-old female was the victim of an early morning hit-and-run collision near Paradise Cove. The suspect fled the scene, drove north on Kanan Road and was detained by deputies in Agoura Hills.
On February 7, Kimberley Lowe was killed in a four-vehicle collision near Corral Canyon Road involving Caitlyn Jenner. The fatal collision closed a stretch of PCH for nearly nine hours. Jenner is facing possible manslaughter charges as the District Attorney’s Office awaits the Sheriff Department’s final investigation report, due by the end of the month.
PCH=Death Alley A cyclist died after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Pacific Coast Highway near Zuma Beach on Sunday, Aug. 23.
Sheriffs responded to the scene of the collision at Busch Drive around 8:30 p.m., according to Sgt. John Lecrivain with the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station.
“Units are on scene of a vehicle vs. pedestrian collision on PCH at Busch Drive, near the entrance to Zuma Beach,” Lecrivain wrote in an alert from the station.
Both eastbound lanes and one westbound lane of PCH were closed after the collision as authorities further investigated the scene.
The male victim was airlifted from the scene to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and was initially reported to have “serious but not life threatening injuries.”
“It happened at about 8:30 p.m.,” Detective Richard Curry said. “A person was riding a bicycle across the highway, crossed the highway and was struck by a vehicle. He was transported to the hospital and died around 12:30 a.m.”
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner Coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter confirmed the Monday morning fatality.
“A 48-year-old male involved in the collision died on Aug. 24 at Ronald Reagan,” Winter said. “He might be a transient.”
Authorities believe the victim was a local homeless man, but cannot confirm the victim’s identity until notifying next of kin.
Further information surrounding the driver of the vehicle and the vehicle involved in the collision is currently unavailable.
The early Monday morning fatality raised the total number of deaths on PCH in 2015 to five, just months after City Council approved the PCH Safety Study, a $20 million plan for improvements along the highway.
A male pedestrian was struck and killed near the same stretch of highway on June 2. Eleven days later, Dewayne Coleman was killed after a truck careened into his parked vehicle on June 13.
In late March, a 21-year-old female was the victim of an early morning hit-and-run collision near Paradise Cove. The suspect fled the scene, drove north on Kanan Road and was detained by deputies in Agoura Hills.
On February 7, Kimberley Lowe was killed in a four-vehicle collision near Corral Canyon Road involving Caitlyn Jenner. The fatal collision closed a stretch of PCH for nearly nine hours. Jenner is facing possible manslaughter charges as the District Attorney’s Office awaits the Sheriff Department’s final investigation report, due by the end of the month.
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http://bicyclecoalition.org/driver-...ding-with-kids/#sthash.oNndjqoq.EjoTLFUv.dpbs :x
On Wednesday, local cyclist Kate Mundie uploaded a video to YouTube which, sadly, shows what some bicyclists have to go through on Philly’s streets.
While bicycling with her children in her cargo bike on the 1200 block of South 11th Street on Wednesday, Mundie spotted a pickup truck, unnecessarily, dangerously parked in the bike lane. After checking to see if any cars were coming, Mundie safely rode out of the bike lane, around the truck.
Once back in the bike lane, a man driving a 2002 red Chevrolet Trailblazer with a cargo carrier on top and a Pennsylvania license plate pulled up beside her and began verbally assaulting her.
If you are harassed the way Mundie was while bicycling, we highly recommend you file a complaint with the nearest police district. As we noted on our Facebook page this morning, mounting cameras to either your helmet or handlebars, as Mundie did, can help prove the situation actually happened.
Unfortunately, Mundie says, this sort of situation is not that uncommon.
“This sort of thing was happening a lot,” Mundie told the Bicycle Coalition. “Not always as aggressive but enough to leave me shaken and not feeling like a confidant rider. So I got a GoPro. I have been riding with a GoPro for about 18 months. After getting the camera, people did not hassle me as much. But in the last month I am have been yelled at about once a week. This incident was by far the worst and most explicit.”
Using the camera, Mundie said she’s able to often go back to old incident footage and see if she were in error. “I can look at the footage and know that I am doing everything I can to bike in a safe and predictable manner,” she continued. “Also, in the heat of the moment when you have a driver yelling or driving too close you get really upset. When I review the footage later I can have a little more perspective and not feel as upset.”
Though what’s particularly alarming about this driver’s reaction to Mundie safely following the rules of the road was his willingness to use profanity (and explicitly calling her the C-word) in front of her children. They, she says, were a bit more alarmed by this than she was, which is understandable.
“As we rode away we talked about how the man would be angry at anyone on a bike and it’s not about us. But this morning my older son was worried the guy was going to come after us,” she said.
On Wednesday, local cyclist Kate Mundie uploaded a video to YouTube which, sadly, shows what some bicyclists have to go through on Philly’s streets.
While bicycling with her children in her cargo bike on the 1200 block of South 11th Street on Wednesday, Mundie spotted a pickup truck, unnecessarily, dangerously parked in the bike lane. After checking to see if any cars were coming, Mundie safely rode out of the bike lane, around the truck.
Once back in the bike lane, a man driving a 2002 red Chevrolet Trailblazer with a cargo carrier on top and a Pennsylvania license plate pulled up beside her and began verbally assaulting her.
If you are harassed the way Mundie was while bicycling, we highly recommend you file a complaint with the nearest police district. As we noted on our Facebook page this morning, mounting cameras to either your helmet or handlebars, as Mundie did, can help prove the situation actually happened.
Unfortunately, Mundie says, this sort of situation is not that uncommon.
“This sort of thing was happening a lot,” Mundie told the Bicycle Coalition. “Not always as aggressive but enough to leave me shaken and not feeling like a confidant rider. So I got a GoPro. I have been riding with a GoPro for about 18 months. After getting the camera, people did not hassle me as much. But in the last month I am have been yelled at about once a week. This incident was by far the worst and most explicit.”
Using the camera, Mundie said she’s able to often go back to old incident footage and see if she were in error. “I can look at the footage and know that I am doing everything I can to bike in a safe and predictable manner,” she continued. “Also, in the heat of the moment when you have a driver yelling or driving too close you get really upset. When I review the footage later I can have a little more perspective and not feel as upset.”
Though what’s particularly alarming about this driver’s reaction to Mundie safely following the rules of the road was his willingness to use profanity (and explicitly calling her the C-word) in front of her children. They, she says, were a bit more alarmed by this than she was, which is understandable.
“As we rode away we talked about how the man would be angry at anyone on a bike and it’s not about us. But this morning my older son was worried the guy was going to come after us,” she said.
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http://theavtimes.com/2015/08/26/cyclist-struck-killed-by-car/
PALMDALE – A 40-year-old man on a bicycle was struck and killed by a car early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The fatal collision happened around 4:40 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, on Sierra Highway north of Pearblossom Highway, according to a California Highway Patrol report.
Jeff Aubrey McGrath of Palmdale was riding his bicycle southbound on Sierra Highway in the No. 2 lane when he was struck by a 2006 Toyota Corolla that was traveling southbound on Sierra Highway, the CHP report states.
“The front of the Toyota Corolla collided into the bicycle, resulting in fatal injuries to Mr. Jeff McGrath,” the CHP report states.
The Corolla’s driver, 50-year-old Ingrid Gallardo-Sanchez of Palmdale, was not injured in the collision.
“At this time intoxication does not appear to be a factor,” the CHP report states.
Sierra Highway was closed from south of Barrel Springs to Pearblossom Highway for approximately two hours following the collision.
The traffic collision is still under investigation, and no further information was available Wednesday.
PALMDALE – A 40-year-old man on a bicycle was struck and killed by a car early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The fatal collision happened around 4:40 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, on Sierra Highway north of Pearblossom Highway, according to a California Highway Patrol report.
Jeff Aubrey McGrath of Palmdale was riding his bicycle southbound on Sierra Highway in the No. 2 lane when he was struck by a 2006 Toyota Corolla that was traveling southbound on Sierra Highway, the CHP report states.
“The front of the Toyota Corolla collided into the bicycle, resulting in fatal injuries to Mr. Jeff McGrath,” the CHP report states.
The Corolla’s driver, 50-year-old Ingrid Gallardo-Sanchez of Palmdale, was not injured in the collision.
“At this time intoxication does not appear to be a factor,” the CHP report states.
Sierra Highway was closed from south of Barrel Springs to Pearblossom Highway for approximately two hours following the collision.
The traffic collision is still under investigation, and no further information was available Wednesday.
