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Update: Police Report on Lancaster Bike Fatality
An alert and obviously well-informed reader got a copy of the police report from Tuesday's fatal bike crash in Lancaster. Some readers felt that I assumed the car driver to be at fault without knowing the facts. The point of that article, and this one, isn't to place blame on anyone but show how the media, in it's efforts to not place any sort of blame, often makes it sound like cyclists are at fault in these sorts of collisions.
September 26, 2008
CBS2: Cyclist Killed after “Running Into” Car
(editor's note: This story has been updated with the text of the police report here.)
September 24, 2008
LAPD Will Enfoce Bike License Law
Flyer from LAPD Central District Station Streetsblog can now confirm the report by Streetsblog commenter “furbat” will issue a citation to unlicensed bicycles under Los Angeles Municipal Code 26.01. While I was downtown registering both my wife’s and my own road bikes I grabbed a picture of the above flyer. I was also able to … Continued
September 23, 2008
Explanation of Rising Speed Limits: “The Public Votes with the Gas Pedal”
In recent weeks, CityWatch has done a fantastic job explaining why speed limits are rising throughout the city and why those limits are determined by speeding drivers and not the communities that have to deal with the speeding traffic.
August 20, 2008
Should the Rules of the Road Be Amended for Cyclists?
Via Carectomy, a San Francisco CBS affiliate reports that the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission is considering whether to revise the rules of the road to better accommodate cyclists. The changes would make it legal for cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, and stoplights as stop signs.
July 14, 2008
July 4th Road Rage Crash Grabs Police and Media Attention
Yesterday LAist broke the story, with graphic images, of a road rage-caused crash between two experienced cyclists and an emergency room doctor with a bid of a trigger temper. Unlike past incidents, the mainstream media jumped on this story with graphic images making the story more “viewer friendly.” KNBC and CBS2 both ran stories on last night’s news and the Bottleneck Blog and KFI 640 both have stories online.
July 8, 2008
Another Community Endorses Cyclists Rights. LAPD Still Confused About Them.
Officer Searches Cyclist's Bag Without Probable Cause or Consent
July 7, 2008
Times Dismisses Red Light Cameras as Revenue Generation Ploy
Less pressing for whom? When the Federal Highway Administration discusses the conflict between pedestrians and automobiles it ranks “right on red” as the top concern. A look at crash fatality statistics nationwide shows that in Los Angeles, almost one quarter of all crash fatalities are pedestrians.
May 20, 2008