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Fighting bicycle traffic tickets in Pima County Justice Court
Readers of this blog know that I have recommended fighting those stop-sign tickets you get on your bike if you are pulled over by Tucson Police Department officers. As I have often stated in this blog, you aren’t going to win (most likely) on fighting the ticket, but what you can do is get [...]
Read More..>>Hermosillo velodrome
This photo is from the awesome El Grup blog post about their trip last weekend to ride the velodrome down in Hermosillo. They also did a road race.
Why don’t we get to have a velodrome?? Isn’t this supposed to be a gold-star biking city?
Hermosillo’s is 250 meters with a 44 degree [...]
The only future that is ours is the one we make for ourselves
The comment in Danehy’s article (post below) that he would never ride a bike in the street or allow his children to do so because he’s too scared has really stuck in my craw. Mainly it’s the sense of superiority I detect in most of his writing (if you aren’t scared like me then [...]
Read More..>>New emphasis on wrong-way riders from U of A police
I just got out of a bicycle-related trial (we won) and while there I got a chance to chat with a U of A officer who was there on a wrong-way riding violation. I asked him about that and he said that they had recently emphasized this over stop-sign violations. He completely agreed [...]
Read More..>>Arizona Bikes Safe Yield Act to get a hearing — possibly this Thursday
The so-called “Idaho Stop” statute, as most of my readers know by now, has been introduced again here in Arizona. My representative Daniel Patterson has joined with Matt Heinz, another legislator from Tucson, to sponsor this bill. It was introduced by Rep. Quelland, a long-time bicycle commuter from Phoenix.
The bill is [...]
“Idaho stop” bill introduced in Arizona — would permit bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs when safe to do so
Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.
I got a call yesterday from my State legislator, Daniel Patterson, who told me that the “Bike safe-yield” bill had been introduced again this year. This bill would permit bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs when safe to do so. [...]
Getting from downtown to Dunbar Spring got a little bit easier recently
I have had a chance to use the new bike-access or bike-crossing thing that the city installed recently at that awful intersection at Church and Toole. It used to be that if you were trying to get from downtown to, say, BICAS, you had to either ride dangerously through tunnels or on 6th Street [...]
Read More..>>Spot the difference
Check out this story and see if you can spot the number of ways it departs from what would have happened here in Tucson. (I have slightly edited the story for brevity)
Why I always call the Toronto Police when a car driver does anything dangerous
Submitted by Kevin Love on December 31, 2008 – 12:14pm
I [...]
Copenhagen and bicycles
Lauren just sent me this video under the heading “Copenhagen is ridiculous.” I thought it was going to be about global warming, but it is a video on some of the really creative and amazing things Copenhagen has done for bicycles. Like for example pavement-level flashing red lights that bicyclists cannot see (“we’d [...]
Read More..>>¡Tucson Ciclovia!
I attended the Tucson Ciclovia meeting yesterday and was very pleased. Representatives from the City, County, YMCA, and others attended and there seems to be a lot of interest and excitement about getting a ciclovia going in Tucson.
Right now the most probable date is Sunday, May 2, 2010, although some other dates are under [...]