Archive for the 'Yay!' Category
WTF? Is the Tucson Police Department finally getting on board with bicycle safety?
Readers of this Website know that I have been very critical of TPD since I started it back in 2007. In fact, the whole reason I did start it was my frustration at TPD officers who were not citing motorists for collisions with cyclists that were demonstrably the fault of the motorist. Over [...]
Read More..>>A (Bittersweet) Historic Moment in Arizona’s Three-Foot Rule?
Check out this email I got from P.M., a rider in the Phoenix area yesterday:
Thought I’d pass on some news of a good experience with the Scottsdale police.
I ride to work frequently from my house in Tempe to my office in Phoenix, roughly 15 miles each way. A good portion of my route goes though [...]
BICAS given five-year lease in Citizen’s Warehouse
My readers know how much I adore and admire BICAS, Tucson’s Bicycle Inter-City Arts and Salvage cooperative. BICAS, in its 20th year now in Tucson, provides low-cost bike repair classes, recycled bike parts, and offers public, do-it-yourself, low-cost shop rental with experienced mechanics on hand to help you.
BICAS also has an art program that [...]
That was fun!
I’m not going to recap yesterday’s festivities because it’s all been amply done over at Tucson Velo. Suffice to say that the Cyclovia, which has been a dream of mine for several years, was a huge success.
When I started this blog almost three years ago it was in part out of revulsion [...]
Cyclovia needs volunteers
My readers know how excited I am that Tucson is having its first-ever Cyclovia. We are looking for volunteers for the event to help with the road-closures and other things. Please sign up for a slot to help out if you can! You can sign up for as little as one hour. [...]
Read More..>>BICAS wins “Bicycle Advocate of the Year” Award from TPCBAC
I was so pleased to get this email yesterday from Kylie Walzak, the Education Coordinator at BICAS!
The Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee (TPCBAC) has chosen BICAS as this year’s recipient of its Bicycle Advocate of the Year Award.
According to the BAC’s chair, Brian Beck, the Bicycling Advocate of the Year Award will be presented to [...]
Another sign we are winning
I saw today that CNN.com has as one its main stories . . . the Los Angeles Tweed ride! Granted, it’s an “ireport,” which is where they highlight a story written by a member of the public, but still.
Popular culture is showing increasing reception to stories about how riding a bike is fun. [...]
Flagstaff Bike Advocate hits one out of the park
Most of you have probably been following the story of Randy Mason, the Flagstaff cyclist who got grazed by a city bus and then yelled at for it, and then cited for disorderly conduct.
He was riding his bike as far to the right as he reasonably could, given that the bike lane was full of [...]
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..>>Tucsonvelo.com
Between the horrific news from Haiti and a full calendar, I’ve not had much to add in the past few weeks and some of my readers have been pestering me about it.
So I’m glad to report that Mike McKisson has started tucsonvelo.com, a website along the bikeportland.org model, which along with being a [...]