This (above story about prosecutors not charging drivers who kill cyclists) is the thing that pisses me off more than anything. If I had my way, advocacy groups would stop spending their money and effort on walkers and people who don’t actually ride bikes and put as much effort as possible into ensuring that drivers who injure and kill cyclists are actually held accountable for their actions. There’s a hierarchy of needs in the cycling community, and I think ensuring road safety and legal protection should be at the absolute top of the list. /rant

Escooters worse for the environment than the modes of transportation than they replace

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scooters-are-worse-for-the-environment-than-many-think/

NY Times op Ed: how ebikes changed my life

debate in NY about whether killed cyclists should be treated as “accidents” or crimes

Motorist who killed Jose Alzorriz is charged

https://gothamist.com/2019/08/21/alzorriz_baig_driver_cyclist.php

How racial segregation adds to traffic congestion

London Is Changing Its Skyscraper Designs—to Favor Cyclists. Wind tunnels and downdrafts can make life difficult for cyclists and pedestrians. London’s new design rules aim to reduce headwinds.

https://www.wired.com/story/london-changing-skyscraper-designs-favor-cyclists/

Trail connection in Massachusetts:

https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/long-delayed-bike-path-will-link-mansfield-and-norton/article_08142c1b-2818-5863-a974-373b5254c27a.html

https://nypost.com/2019/08/31/central-park-is-full-of-signal-snubbing-cyclists-who-need-to-be-stopped/

But if you are reading this, you stop a red lights, right?

Ah, the NY Post. Need read no further.

Bikers do go fast through Central Park. Also rollerbladers. Although I’m not an NYC resident, I’ve never heard anyone complain about this before (or the same thing in prospect Park, which is closed to cars much of the day).

Weird and tragic one out of Las Vegas.

Las Vegas man killed by cops after he was stopped for riding a bicycle without a safety light https://t.co/4KoLvxLWBA

— Lynda Lopez (@Lyndab08) September 15, 2019

Very good article:

Why Is Bill De Blasio Trying to Kill Me? New York’s Mayor Claims to Be Progressive but Favors Drivers Over Bicyclists.

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/new-york-city-cars-bicycles-de-blasio/

“it feels like the de Blasio administration is luring us into a trap: ‘Here’s a new [unprotected] bike lane, please come and use it, you’re going to love it, ha ha ha.’ …

The problem is the absence of an infrastructure that gives bikers, pedestrians, and even delivery trucks what they need so they don’t go to war against each other for the rat-infested crumbs of asphalt the city has them fighting over. Cyclists need protected lanes and prioritized lights all over the city.”

Driver who killed David Salovesh gets 8 1/2 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/driver-who-struck-and-killed-cyclist-and-activist-david-salovesh-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison/2019/09/27/41644db4-e127-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

NYT op Ed: cars are death machines
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/04/opinion/self-driving-cars-safety.html

Paris is getting remade for bikes and pedestrians. Guess who isn’t happy.

Article above

Reduced demand resulting from closure of 14th St in NYC.

New York is timing its traffic lights for bikes.
Timing lights

Pedestrian and cyclist deaths up.
Cyclist deaths

NYC, a Twitter thread, click through to the Reddit post.

Summary: Guy on a rental bike bodily threatened by pickup truck driver on a city park trail, but NYPD did jackshit about it. Scary story about the driver, totally reprehensible story about the police.

This #bikenyc story is crazy, and the way the NYPD (didn't) deal with it is INSANE. @CitiBikeNYC https://t.co/GjX6DKUqWy

— Shmuli Evers (@Shmuli) November 3, 2019

From Oslo

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happened-when-oslo-decided-to-make-its-downtown-basically-car-free?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

Durham, North Carolina tried a pumpkin-protected bike lane

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/11/01/a-pumpkin-protected-bike-lane-on-all-hallows-eve

https://www.active.com/cycling/articles/the-20-best-u-s-cities-to-explore-by-bike?cmp=18N-PB2000-S20-T9-cycling-AR5&eps=title_1294909

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87-year-old cyclist completes 1000 mile ride on his Brompton.

https://www.cyclinguk.org/press-release/87-year-old-cyclist-possibly-oldest-man-complete-lands-end-john-ogroats

Lots of cycling in Copenhagen

If you’re paranoid about bike safety, festoon your bike with lights like this crazy Floridian.
<p class=”p1″>https://youtu.be/9goJVi7aXTg</p>

If you encounter a thirsty koala while cycling, give it a drink

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6jjpHMlStM/

Stu’s dream: far fewer cars, no cycling or pedestrian deaths. In Oslo.
https://www.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048066/oslo-vision-zero-pedestrian-cyclist-deaths

Oonee is building modular bike storage lockers and trying to get New York City to install them. Free to users, subsidized by advertising.

As discussed on today’s Bike Snob radio show:

https://www.wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=9169

From biking in LA Twitter: “Bicycle serial killer. Louisiana woman arrested for hit-and-run death of a bike rider — seven years after she killed a boy teenage boy riding his bike in another hit-and-run. And on the same damn highway, no less.”
https://www.kplctv.com/2020/01/17/woman-involved-second-fatal-bicycle-accident-arrested-negligent-homicide/

Fat cycling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/they-call-themselves-fat-cyclists–and-they-want-to-get-more-people-of-all-sizes-on-bikes/2020/01/17/c09a3c26-3968-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html

Bike share bikes used as obstacles for coronavirus quarantine in China: “when I got to the gate I had to slam on the brakes. Someone had taken a dozen ride-share bikes, lashed them together with wire and piled them in between the barriers. Then, for good measure, they’d fastened the heap to the posts with more wire, making it into some sort of postmodern commentary on our hyper-mobile society.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/opinion/coronavirus-china-epidemic.html

Sad story from Syracuse, NY

<span style=”display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: ‘Farnham Medium’,Georgia,serif; font-size: 4rem; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 5rem; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;”>Beloved Syracuse street musician Eli Harris struck twice by cars riding his bike, dies</span>

 
<p id=”WRBTQFKCR5FIXE447VQT6W47WQ” class=”article__paragraph article__paragraph–left”>Syracuse, N.Y. — Marshall Street belonged to Elijah “Eli” Harris Jr.</p>
<p id=”TB7IT6G2LFF3LHKNEQ6YPFQY6Y” class=”article__paragraph article__paragraph–left”>For decades, Harris made the Syracuse street his stage. He played his guitar and sang on Marshall Street before and after games at the Carrier Dome, serenading fans as they passed by.</p>
<p id=”L3VZMFGYOFFYNARQ7OHLX7VVMU” class=”article__paragraph article__paragraph–left”>“He called Marshall Street his alleyway,” said musician Joe Driscoll, “and he appointed himself the musical mayor of the street.”</p>
[ … ]

Harris, 62, was killed Tuesday night in a double hit-and-run crash on the city’s South Side, the Syracuse Police Department said in a news release Wednesday evening.

<span style=”display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,’Times New Roman’,’Bitstream Charter’,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;”>More at the site</span>:

<span>https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2020/04/beloved-syracuse-street-musician-eli-harris-struck-twice-by-cars-riding-his-bike-dies.html
</span>

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/uber-bikes-scrapped.html

I hate seeing salvageable bikes being thrown away.  Too often the amurican attitude is if I don’t want it, no one else can have it.

A rare case where the bicyclist is the villain. (… and not for filtering.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/maryland-cyclist-arrested-for-assault-on-teens-apologizes/ar-BB157WXl?ocid=spartanntp

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man charged with assaulting three teenagers after a video showed him grabbing a protest flyer from one of teens is apologizing.

Bicycle cops

You remember those bicycle cops? LMAAAAO ? pic.twitter.com/I8EGcu1mGo

— Witch Doctor Seuss (@X_sequitur) June 7, 2020

A rather bizarre follow-up to my post from Saturday about a bicyclist attacking Floyd protestors.

<span>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get-doxed-for-taking-a-bike-ride.html</span&gt;

A cautionary tale about social media justice.

Mick’s link:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get-doxed-for-taking-a-bike-ride.html

Take Back the Streets From the Automobile
With people hunkered down at home, cities should act quickly to find a better balance between cars and pedestrians and cyclists.
By Justin Gillis and Heather Thompson

NYT 20 june 2020