Archive for October, 2010
El Grupo Alley-Cat Scavenger Hunt tomorrow!
Just a reminder. 6th and 6th, 10 AM. If you don’t have a team it is always easy to join one at the start (or you can ride alone if you prefer). There’s room on our team too, if you think you can be competitive enough to join us. We intend [...]
Read More..>>Tempe-lawyer.com
When you run a blog you learn a lot about internet scams. I get numerous new posts to this Website every day from people who are trying to increase their Google ranking by inserting a link to their own Website onto mine. The way it works is they post a comment with a [...]
Read More..>>Unintended consequences
A former client of mine pointed me to a new ordinance that Oro Valley is most likely going to adopt on Wednesday. The ordinance would prohibit marijuana dispensaries (should Proposition 203 pass) within a 1000-foot buffer around any school, library, church, child-care facility, and park. It also limits such dispensaries to two classes [...]
Read More..>>Albuquerque road-rager deliberately runs over cyclist, gets charged with leaving the scene of an accident
As per usual. Story here.
I sure hope the local authorities determine that something worse than just leaving the scene of an accident occurred here.
–EBR
A little closer to utopia every single day
As I nearly got creamed trying to navigate the Broadway-Toole-Fourth Avenue Underpass merge today I got to thinking about the new $6.7 million four-storey parking garage that is about to be constructed at that intersection.
Now I am sure my readers all agree how wonderful it will be to get another parking garage downtown.
I’ve [...]
The Driver’s Manual and bicycles
Most of you probably know that the Arizona Driver’s Manual now instructs drivers as to both the “three-foot” passing rule and the lawful right of cyclists to ride two abreast. It also states clearly that the same rules of the road and right-of-way apply to bicyclists as to motorists. That’s a big first [...]
Read More..>>Deputy Arizpuru shows up for trial . . . with a very different story
I wrote below about my frustration with Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy Alvaro Arizpuru, who ticketed a spate of cyclists on Mt. Lemmon earlier this year because he seemed to believe that it was unlawful to ride a bicycle to the left of the fog line.
I am told that he got schooled a little bit in [...]
Help re-elect Nancy Young Wright in Legislative District 26
I do not live in her district, but I have worked with Nancy Young Wright on bicycle issues and I found her to be extremely intelligent and thoughtful. I don’t know that she is a bicyclist, but she is very much interested in making her district and all of Tucson as bicycle-friendly as possible. [...]
Read More..>>El Grupo Scavenger Hunt Saturday, October 30!!
The El Grupo Scavenger Hunt is my second-favorite event of the year, surpassed only by the BICAS Art Auction.
It’s a “race” through town following clues and picking up puzzle pieces, but the fun isn’t so much in the competition as it is in solving the puzzles and enjoying a ride with friends. The route [...]