Two years in a row, Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach introduced a safe passing bill to the California legislature. Two years in a row, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the bill in spite of heavy lobbying by California cyclists. Lowenthal has since moved on to the U.S. Congress, and nobody has yet taken up his safe-passing read more
Weekend carnage http://t.co/Ul7EJXv6
This weekend’s tally of traffic collisions around the San Francisco Bay Area included these incidents.
We frequently see reader comments in any newspaper stories about cyclists that bicycles cause more danger and mayhem for other road users, pedestrians and the general public than cars. I don’t know if the people who write this stuff believe their own hyperbole or not, but when was the last time a cyclist knocked out read more
The California Highway Patrol reported 19 traffic fatalities occurred over the 2012 / 2013 New Year weekend. The lone cyclist fatality, Jonathan Coontz of Orange County, was killed in a bike-vs-bike collision on the Santa Ana River Trail just after the CHP’s reporting period began last Friday evening. The other cyclist was hospitalized. The final read more
