Oops, it happened again.

Thanks so much for all of the discussion yesterday on vulnerable users. I reported then that a pedestrian walked straight into me even though I was at a dead stop on my bicycle.

Guess what — the same thing happened again this morning at the same location. The only difference was my speed — about 5 MPH instead of 0 MPH — and another pedestrian bumped into me.

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Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown rides a bicycle.

Bike commuter, livable streets advocate and Green Party member Celia Wade-Brown won the race for mayor of New Zealand’s capital and third largest city in an instant runoff election in which she received 176 more votes than the incumbent mayor, Kerry Prendergast. Here she is showing off her inner cycle chic at the Wellington City Council building.

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San Francisco’s final “Sunday Streets” event for 2010 fizzled out when nobody showed yesterday.

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Cyclists usually think of themselves when it comes to vulnerable users, but there’s another class I’d like to mention: pedestrians!

Like the recent death of Lauren Huddleston tragically reminded us, pedestrians are the vulnerable users in interactions between walkers/runners and cyclists.

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