I’m now visiting Nevada in my virtual meander across the American bike legislation tour of 2013. Of interest in the Silver State: voluntary funding of a Complete Streets program for your county, and a bipartisan run the red light rule for motorcycles and bicycles.
You might recall the city of Black Hawk, Colorado, which banned bikes from the state highway that runs through town. A trio of touring cyclists were ticketed on June 4, 2010 for violating the ordinance. Local and district courts affirmed the citations, so Jamie Webb, Jeffrey Hermanson, and Michaleen Jeronimus took it to the Colorado read more
San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius writes from the windshield perspective and is often accused of an anti-bike bias. Bay Area cycling advocates have learned to season Nevius’s reporting with several grains of salty skepticism, but occasionally his articles see distribution in the wider world of bike activism outside of the San Francisco area. So read more
While the publisher of Cyclelicious enthusiastically supports Bus Rapid Transit plans in the Santa Clara Valley, San Jose bike advocate Peter Smith is equally ardent in his opposition to BRT. When I asked Peter for details on why he opposes BRT, he graciously agreed to write up this provocative guest blog post. Bus Rapid Transit read more
Grimes, Iowa city council voted Tuesday to restrict bikes from a two mile stretch of road for “safety issues.”
Bollywood action star Salman “Sallu” Khan rides his bicycle to and from the set in Mumbai.
