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Bike/Ped Accidents in Minneapolis: Let’s Be Careful Out There

The Minneapolis safety record for bicycles is suffering right now. First, a driver jumped a curb near Dinkytown and hit several pedestrians. Today, a right-turning dump truck killed a cyclist near 4th Street and 15th Avenue, again near the U of M.

Minneapolis police are looking to better enforce vehicular and pedestrian laws to help prevent life-changing [...]

April 21st, 2011 | Category: bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike lanes, complete streets, crime, enforcement, minneapolis, minnesota, roadway use, share the road, traffic accidents, traffic calming, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed

Additional Hearing on Minnesota Careless Driving Bills

EDIT: This has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 14, at 1:00 PM.

A key piece of the 2011 Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota legislative agenda has been the support of bills to increase careless driving penalties. Cyclists have been encouraged to send messages of support to committee members and to their own legislators, preparing the latter to vote [...]

April 12th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle laws, bicycle safety, bicyclists, crime, distracted driving, encouragement, enforcement, legislation, minnesota, pedestrian access, public meetings, roadway use, share the road, traffic accidents, traffic calming, transportation options | Comments are closed

SF201 Hearing Today!

We have previously covered the proposed harsher penalties for careless drivers who kill or inflict serious injuries on bicyclists and pedestrians. At yesterday’s Minnesota Bicycle Summit, many participants spoke to their legislators to support the bills, SF201 and HF68.

Senate File 201 will be heard in the Minnesota Senate Judiciary & Public Safety Committee today, March 1, [...]

March 1st, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle laws, bicycle safety, bicyclists, crime, distracted driving, enforcement, evaluation, legislation, minnesota, pedestrian access, politics, public meetings, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, traffic accidents, transportation options | Comments are closed

Alabama: Op-Ed on Cyclist Safety

One legislative priority for the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota this year is to increase penalties for injury accidents against cyclists and pedestrians. Proposed laws in Minnesota step up existing penalties.

On the plus side, Minnesota often will charge people under existing rules. Not as much in Alabama, where police officers cannot issue citations if they do not [...]

February 23rd, 2011 | Category: alabama, bicycle advocacy, bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicyclists, common sense, complete streets, crime, enforcement, jerks, legislation, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, traffic accidents, traffic calming | Comments are closed

Bike Lanes As Cyclist Hazards

Yesterday, a cyclist was killed while in the bike lane at 1st Avenue North and 5th Street in Minneapolis. While details remain sparse, the cyclist was in a bike lane painted to the right of the road, and was struck in a classic right-hook as the vehicle in the ‘car lane’ to the left of the [...]

October 27th, 2010 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike lanes, crime, cycling in the media, engineering, minneapolis, minnesota, riding position, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, traffic accidents, traffic calming, vehicular cycling | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Tragedy on Summit Update

Last fall, when a cyclist was killed in a car-bicycle collision on Summit Avenue near Snelling Avenue, I observed that it was all but impossible for the crash to be the cyclist’s fault due to the street configuration.

Accident reconstruction agrees with me, per the Star-Tribune. The driver now has been charged with misdemeanors – failing to [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Category: bicycle laws, bicycle safety, bicyclists, crime, enforcement, minnesota, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, st. paul, traffic accidents | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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