Cycling News This Week
Mayor Bloomberg speaks at the NACTO Designing Cities Conferences, video from a Halloween Bike Party in Maryland, riding for injured veterans in California, a funeral is held for teen killed on bicycle in Illinois, segregated bike lanes installed in Ottawa, Canada, and Santa Fe, NM holds an education seminar for cyclists. In Michigan, a woman who rode thousands of miles for non-profits is killed by a truck.
Mayor Bloomberg: “Cyclists… more important than automobile riders”, BikePortland.org, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke at the closing plenary of the NACTO Designing Cities Conference today. At an event held at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of NYU in Manhattan, Bloomberg shared his perspective on …
Video: Halloween Bike Party!, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore, MD. The bicycling culture in Charm City and the Bike Party, only six months old, seems to be growing so fast now, that it’s almost hard to grasp at times. “How is it possible,” asked one 20-somethingbicyclist, “that this is the most fun thing I’ve ever …
Bike ride for injured veterans makes stop in Ventura, Ventura County Star, California. Salisbury is among the more than 200 riders completing the Golden State Challenge, a bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles organized by Ride 2 Recovery, a nonprofit that helps injured veterans. After leaving Solvang yesterday morning, the …
Funeral arrangements final for teen killed in bike crash, KFVS. JEFFERSON COUNTY, IL (KFVS/AP) -. Funeral arrangements are final for an 18-year-old man killed when a truck hit the bicycle he was riding in southern Illinois. Coroner Eddie Marks says 18-year-old Anthony Swainston of Mount Vernon died at the scene of …
More cyclists, fewer cars, fewer collisions on Laurier Avenue since bike lanes …Ottawa Citizen. OTTAWA, Canada — Bike traffic on Laurier Avenue has tripled with the installation of segregated lanes for cyclists, says a report from the city’s urban-planning chief John Moser, while about 100 cars have come off the downtown road at rush hours. About 16 …
Summit geared to teach cyclists about safety, Santa Fe New Mexican.com, Santa Fe, NM., All the bike lanes in the world mean little if a bicyclist doesn’t know how to navigate traffic. Instructors will teach that skill, among others, Saturday, Oct. 27, at the 2012 New Mexico Bicyclists Education Summit at the Santa Fe University of Art …
Woman had logged thousands of miles before she was killed while riding her bike, FRANKENMUTH, MI — Stephanie Ann (Holzwart) Collins, 45, was killed when a motor vehicle hit her while she was riding her bicycle outside of Frankenmuth on Wednesday, Oct. 24.