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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 [...]

Tragedy on Summit

The death today of a cyclist on Summit Avenue in St. Paul sadly demonstrates that cyclists keeping to bike lanes – as some motorists urge – simply isn’t an answer.

In each place where the inner service road meets the main throughway of Summit Avenue, there is a stop sign – for the service road. Summit is [...]

Um, What?

So, the Rochester Post-Bulletin reports nefariously weird bicycle-related activity in Rochester, Minnesota:

According to police, a female guest at Best Western Soldiers Field Tower and Suites, 401 Sixth St. S.W., had used the swimming pool and was showering when she heard a door open about 3:10 p.m. Sunday. She saw a naked man. He ran from the [...]