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It’s been getting tons of coverage in the local media and from national organizations: As the rate of cycling in the Twin Cities has increased, crash rate has declined.
Similar findings have occurred in studies in NYC, Portland (OR), and even Australia.
Meanwhile, in other places in the country, the news isn’t so good. Bike crashes in [...]
Yesterday, I talked about how bike education tends to be marketed based on safety, and that safety messages are fundamentally rooted in fear. This kind of message is fairly effective to reach the 60% of people who are interested in riding more, but concerned about traffic and safety issues. The challenge of how to make the [...]
One of the greatest barricades to the success of bicycle education in this country is that the core value proposition marketed for it is ‘safety.’
Nothing is wrong with safety. Effective bicycle drivers exhibit behaviors that add to their safety.
But let’s be honest: The fixation on safety is born of fear. Fear of the road. Fear of [...]
Per Minnesota Statute 169.222, “every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.” Several exception cases are codified in the statute. As a unit, here is the entirety of Subd. 4:
Subd. 4. Riding on roadway or shoulder. (a) Every person operating a [...]
Ever since the new I35W bridge opened – and in light of the budgetary issues facing both Minnesota and the US – it seems as though attention to the crumbling state of many bridges has quieted down.
However, this week Minneapolis lost a crossing of the Mississippi River for the very reason of hazard and corrosion. The [...]
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 [...]
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