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I was at the post office today when a bicycle cop rode up onto the sidewalk and parked his bike.
Then I watched as he came out and rode off down the sidewalk toward the park, where he met up with his partner.
I don’t support an all-out prohibition on sidewalk riding. I think that at [...]
Read More..>>Faith Quick sentenced today in Charles Nystrom Fatality
As most of my readers know, Charles Nystrom was killed while riding his bicycle on Tanque Verde Road last year. He was a retired Air Force pilot, a bicyclist, father of two daughters, and was working as a school teacher at the time of his death.
I never met him, but he sounds [...]
Allen D. Johnson obituary info
Here.
Allen D. Johnson 26, of Tucson, AZ died Tuesday, March 10, 2009 from injuries sustained when he was struck by a pick-up truck while riding his bicycle. Private services will be held at the Roberts Funeral Home – Sherwood Chapel, Wooster with Pastor Robert Fetterhoff and Pastor Mark Saunders officiating. Burial will be at Smithville [...]
White Honda, loud exhaust, Mt. Lemmon this morning — do you know this person?
Lately I have been thinking about ways to spread the word publicly about people who endanger the lives of cyclists. The other day I was grazed by a green Suburban not once but twice. I couldn’t catch up to the guy on my single-speed but I thought that if I had my camera it [...]
Read More..>>Stop signs as yield signs fails in committee today
Tucsonbikelawyer is far too busy right now preparing for trial to be much help to anyone but thanks to the excellentAZBikelaw blog you all can read the grim news.
–Erik Ryberg
Rep. Patterson wants to know your stop-sign horror stories
As part of his effort to pass his bill to enable cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, Rep. Daniel Patterson is asking local cyclists to send him their stories of getting ticketed at stop signs. If you were stopped and ticketed because you failed to put your foot down at a stop [...]
Read More..>>SF Bike/Police training video
If the Tucson Police Department were to put out something like this it would only be hilarious — in a bad way.
But here’s something to look at as a target for where we need to be. A good start would be a forced viewing by all TPD traffic officers. Check it [...]
Tucson-Pima Bike Advisory Committee Meeting to include County Attorney’s Office Representative
Tomorrow’s Bike Advisory Committee meeting will include Bruce Chalk of the County Attorney’s Office. It was Chalk’s office that declined to prosecute the woman who hit and killed Charles Nystrom, and which has responsibility for most felony assaults, hit-and-run, and auto incidents in Tucson and Pima County.
Here is one reader’s note, submitted earlier as a [...]
Husband, Father, Teacher: Forever May You Fly
The Nystrom family installed this beautiful ghost bike near Udall Park on Tanque Verde Road this week.
Air Force Lt. Colonel Charles Nystrom was killed last August by a drug-impaired driver who apparently sped around cars that had slowed to let him cross the street where he was to visit his family at a restaurant.
Mr. [...]
“Simply incorrect and unfounded.”
The Pima County Attorney has just e-mailed local bicycling industry professional and bike advocate Scott Blanchard to tell him that all is well in the world of bike enforcement in Tucson. She said:
Please know that my office takes [the El Tour] case, as well as all other vehicular cases, including those in which cyclists are [...]