
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bicyclists

In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Boub v. Township of Wayne
		That bicyclists are not intended users does not, of course, mean that they are prohibited from roads and highways, for this determination has no effect on their status as permitted users.
		Both motorists and bicyclists commonly recognize that, in the absence of a designated corridor for bike riding, bikes are intended to share the road with automobiles.
		Besides depriving injured bicyclists of just compensation for their injuries, the principal effect of the majority decision will be to discourage municipalities from taking any measures to make roads safer and more hospitable for bicyclists.
	www.state.il.us /court/Opinions/SupremeCourt/1998/October/Opinions/HTML/84246.htm (5214 words)

	Snell's Research: Injuries to Bicyclists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicyclists hospitalized with head injuries are 20 times as likely to die as those without.
		Bicyclist death rates per 100,000 population are highest at age 10-14.
		Motor vehicles are involved in 90-92% of bicyclist deaths and 12% of injuries.
	www.smf.org /articles/injury.html (236 words)

	Hernando: Bicyclists invite danger by flouting road rules
		All these bicyclists who apparently "refuse to ride these roads" anymore because they fear for their safety - with the implication that they are not partially responsible for the perilous conditions and who spout the "poor, poor, pitiful me" drivel - should realize they are not the perfect interlopers they portray themselves to be.
		Of course, the bicyclists will then point the finger of blame at the motor vehicle operator, ignoring their own poor and often illegal riding habits that contribute to such tragedies.
		Bicyclists are subject to the same anti-littering laws as the non-cycling public, and they would be upset if some passerby deposited litter on their property.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/03/28/Hernando/Bicyclists_invite_dan.shtml (1131 words)

	WSDOT - WTP - Safety - Collision Factor: Bicyclists
		For bicyclists involved in motor vehicle collisions or crashes, the death tally has held relatively steady for a decade in the range of ten to twenty deaths per year.
		In looking at serious injury and fatal collisions, bicyclists were involved in 124 of the fatal and disabling injury accidents out of the 3199 these serious collisions statewide, which represents 3.9 percent.
		The rate of bicyclist death or disabling injury at 3.9 percent of all fatal and disabling injury collisions is disproportionate, but not by as much as for the pedestrians.
	www.wsdot.wa.gov /planning/wtp/datalibrary/Safety/CFBicyclists.htm (210 words)

	bicyclinginfo.org : insight : faq's : legal and policy issues
		In general, bicyclists are legally allowed to ride on all public roads unless they have been specifically excluded, for example on expressways or limited access highways and bridges.
		Many state vehicle codes say that bicyclists should operate as far to the right as is practicable, and note that in many situations it is safer and more appropriate for bicyclists to operate away from the right hand edge of the roadway.
		Bicyclists are able to ride to the right of the rumble strip (which usually only takes up two feet of the shoulder) and thus gain some additional protection from errant drivers.
	www.bicyclinginfo.org /insight/faqs/legal_policy.htm (2112 words)

	SFGov: San Francisco Bicycle Program: Bicycle Plan - Part 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicyclists and motorists need different kinds of parking facilities, for instance; equal treatment for bicyclists means that they receive what they need on the same basis as motorists, not that they receive exactly the same facilities as motorists.
		Moreover, a bicyclist on a sidewalk may periodically enter the traveled way at intersections and driveways, often from unconventional locations and directions, at relatively high speed, and with inadequate sight lines and ambiguous duties to yield, creating potentially severe conflicts with motor vehicles.
		A bicyclist traveling near the curb, in a bike lane, or on the shoulder must not attempt to overtake on the right a vehicle turning right, a bus loading or unloading passengers, or a double-parked vehicle.
	www.ci.sf.ca.us /site/dptbike_index.asp?id=4309 (11761 words)

	Augusta Georgia: opinion@ugusta: Bicyclists have road rights, too 08/20/00
		Bicyclists pay their taxes, too, and have just as much right to the road as motorists.
		If a motorist cannot pass a bicyclist safely, then that person ought to do the honorable thing and turn in their driver's license.
		As far as the mother with four children in the car who may negligently hit a bicyclist, she probably would be charged with vehicular homicide, and rightfully so.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/082000/opi_124-4512.shtml (423 words)

	Bicycle Safety -- Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1999, the fatality rate for young bicyclists ages 5 through 18 was nearly double the rate of fatalities for total bicyclists.
		In 1999, the injury rate for bicyclists ages 5 through 18 was well over double that for all bicyclists of all ages.
		In 1999, most of the bicyclists (ages 5 through 18) killed or injured while riding a bicycle were males (80 percent).
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /people/injury/buses/GTSS/factbicycle.html (274 words)

	Massachusetts Traffic Laws as they apply to bicyclists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicyclists may ride on "all public ways in the commonwealth except limited access and express state highways where signs specifically prohibiting bicycles have been posted." [See MGL Ch.
		Also, a bicyclist riding on a sidewalk must yield right of way to pedestrians, and a bicyclist shall give an audible warning when necessary, in particular to alert pedestrians.
		Any bicyclist or passenger 12 years of age or less shall wear a helmet which conforms to ANSI or Snell bicycle helmet standards, or subsequent standards, except for a passenger secured in a trailer or other similar device which protects the passenger's head without the need for a helmet.
	www.massbike.org /bikelaw/masumm.htm (958 words)

	Boston Road Warrior/Road Hog Pamphlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicyclists need to ride at least a door's width away from parked cars to avoiding being hit by a suddenly opening door.
		Bicyclists also need to allow room to avoid potholes and debris and to pass double-parked cars.
		Bicyclists may occupy any part of a traffic lane when their safety warrants it.
	www.massbike.org /info/roadhog.htm (392 words)

	GO Boulder -- bicyclists rights and responsibilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Under state law, bicyclists are subject to the same traffic rules (and court fines) as motorists.
		It is unlawful for bicyclists to ride on sidewalks in a business or pedestrian district, including the Boulder downtown area, Hill shopping area or Pearl Street Mall and other heavily trafficked pedestrian areas.
		Bicyclists should ride in the right four feet of the roadway, or on a paved shoulder, except when reasonably necessary for safety or when you do not impede traffic.
	www.ci.boulder.co.us /goboulder/html/bike/rights_b.html (805 words)

	Bicycle and Pedestrian Provisions Guidance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To varying extents, bicyclists and pedestrians will be present on all highways and transportation facilities where they are permitted and it is clearly the intent of TEA-21 that all new and improved transportation facilities be planned, designed, and constructed with this fact in mind.
		Bicyclists and pedestrians have the same origins and destinations as other transportation system users and it is important for them to have safe and convenient access to airports, ports, ferry services, transit terminals, and other intermodal facilities as well as to jobs, services, recreation facilities, and neighborhoods.
		Bicyclists and pedestrians can be expected to use NHS facilities, especially in urban and suburban areas, and thus should be accommodated in the design and operation of these facilities.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /environment/bikeped/bp-guid.htm (12190 words)

	MCBC - How Do Motorists Endanger Bicyclists? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a DRAFT (Version 5) of a document being compiled by the Marin County Bicycle Coalition in response to a California Highway Patrol request for bicyclist input regarding their most frequently encountered dangerous interactions with motorists.
		Drivers are mostly unaware of CVC 21202, which allows bicyclists to use an entire traffic lane when the lane is too narrow to be shared by motorists and bicyclists.
		Bicyclists are often unable to proceed straight ahead on roads intersecting freeway on-ramps, because motorists fail to give them right of way.
	www.marinbike.org /Campaigns/ShareTheRoad/Motorists.htm (2171 words)

	COP Newsletter Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicyclists are required to obey all traffic signs, signals and pavement markings.
		Bicyclists must familiarize themselves with local ordinances to be properly educated about all of the laws affecting them.
		Bicyclists should ride no more than two abreast in a single lane, except on paths set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.
	www.outdoor-pursuits.org /main/news/0304news/0304a_bikelaw.htm (414 words)

	Amtrak Burns Bicyclists! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		League of American Bicyclists today announced a letter and postcard campaign to protest Amtrak's recent decision to accommodate smoking instead of bicycling on its long-distance intercity lines.
		League of American Bicyclists is the nation's leading grassroots organization of bicyclists, dedicated to developing healthy communities and protecting the freedom to ride through bicycle advocacy, education and recreation.
		We are deeply disappointed that Amtrak has abandoned its explicit commitment to improve access to travel via Amtrak for bicyclists -- and it is all the more troubling that the Amtrak baggage cars slated to be retrofitted to accept roll-on bicycles have instead been retrofitted to accommodate smokers.
	danenet.wicip.org /bcp/smoke.html (921 words)

	Critique of Bicycle Use and Hazard Patterns - John Allen's Analysis
		34) that "...bicyclists under age 11 account for about one-third of all riding time, and those under age 21 account for about 61 percent of all riding time." However, only one person per household was interviewed, and all data on young children was collected second-hand from adults, (p.
		To sum up, the researchers failed to hone their investigative technique on the lessons of earlier studies of accident exposure and types, failed to perform cross-checking which would throw light on the credibility of their data, and failed to withdraw their report when confronted with evidence that their data collection technique was deeply flawed.
		In any case, bicyclists who have the skill and confidence to ride on major highways are likely to use helmets wherever they ride (as shown in table 18, p.
	www.bikexprt.com /research/cpsc/analysis.htm (3011 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Helmets are needed because head injuries in bicyclists are noted by: 65,000 emergency room cases and 7,700 hospital admissions annually about 40% of bicyclists admitted to hospitals an estimated 70% to 80% of fatally injured bicyclists
		56% of fatally injured bicyclists are age 20 or older.
		Bicyclist death rates per trip or per person mile greatly exceed the rates for car occupants.
	www.smf.org /articles/bicycle.html (279 words)

	Washington Area Bicyclist Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Washington Area Bicyclist Association is now searching for a full membership and development manager to join our current staff of three.
		Kalb suggested that bicyclist do not belong on the road at all and should be relegated to bike paths.
		Bikes for the World (BfW) is a sponsored project of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association whose central mission is to collect unwanted bicycles and related material in the United States and deliver it a low cost to community development programs assisting the poor in developing countries.
	www.waba.org (1723 words)

	Stop signs do not stopmost campus bicyclists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		More than half of the bicyclists observed by the Arizona Daily Wildcat at various times and locations during the past two weeks did not stop at posted stop signs.
		Bicycles, by Arizona statute, are required to obey all traffic signals; thus, bicyclists who do not stop are violating the law, according to Acting Lt. Brian Seastone of the University of Arizona Police Department.
		He said, however, that bicyclists who violate traffic laws and become involved in accidents are at fault.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/90/15/01_4_m.html (824 words)

	Chapter 5: Behavior 2--The Real: How Bicyclists Actually Behave.
		A study of bicyclists on nine streets with striped bike lanes (Cycecki, Perry, and Frangos, 1993) found that 22 percent of the cyclists who rode on the streets chose to ride facing the motor traffic on their side of the street.
		Being narrow also makes it possible for a bicyclist who wants to turn left to wait on the right side of the road for traffic from behind to pass, a commonly-used technique, even though it is frowned upon by vehicular cycling advocates.
		For example, while approaching a stop sign, a bicyclist may have plenty of time and a clear view by which to judge whether it is safe to cross the intersection.
	www.wright.edu /~jeffrey.hiles/essays/listening/ch5.html (4707 words)

	Bicyclists
		Now that Bob Aldrich, the bicyclists' defender, is no longer with us, I believe that we Los Gatos bicyclists are going to be even more of a target for the polluting commuters and the rude pedestrians.
		The same people who will gladly run over a bicyclist with their cars will force bicyclists off the paths and into brush or over a cliff.
		The bicyclist is the one who winds up over the cliff or in the poison oak.
	www.svcn.com /archives/lgwt/07.30.97/Bicyclists.html (984 words)

	NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLISTS ANNUAL BIKE SUMMIT
		It was, after all, a pair of bicyclists, Orville and Wilbur Wright, who gave birth to powered flight.
		For bicyclists (and other pedal-cyclists), fatalities are down 24 percent since 1994, and injuries have fallen by 35 percent.
		But with 622 bicyclists dying in crashes and another 46,000 injured in 2003, it is clear that we must do more to ensure that all users can safely share our roads.
	www.dot.gov /affairs/minetasp031605.htm (1246 words)

	Hazardous Routes for Silicon Valley Bicyclists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicyclists should dismount and yield to pedestrians on these structures.
		On eastbound Hamilton, bicyclists are forced to ride three lanes from the right because the rightmost two lanes become exit ramps to Highway 17.
		The design of the bridge slows bicyclists ascending the bridge and limits sight lines.
	www.svbcbikes.org /hazards2.cgi (1143 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicycling advocates have been fighting for their right to ride on the roadways for more than 100 years -- The League of American Bicyclists was founded in 1880 and the Cincinnati Cycle Club, one of the nation's oldest local cycling clubs, was founded shortly thereafter.
		It is critical to obtain the bicyclist's full explanation for his or her bike handling at the accident scene.
		Dogs seem to love to chase bicyclists, running along with the bike, sometimes nipping at the cyclist, sometimes running in front of, or into the wheels of, the bike.
	www.cincinnaticycleclub.org /bikelaw/Bikelaw5.htm (7281 words)

	Bicyclists: Obey traffic laws and avoid flying rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I have no qualms with bicyclists who obey the law (unless they think that Gary Payton is a better point guard than John Stockton).
		This will have the dual benefit of forcing bicyclists to wear helmets (for their own safety more than anything) and will cause the same to associate pain with the casual violation of the law.
		Bicyclists who tempt drivers in Tucson to drive dangerously are brain-damaged anyway, and
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/90/17/05_1_m.html (593 words)

	Local bicyclists face crackdown
		Bicyclists head south on Mountain Avenue toward the University of Arizona.
		Bicyclist Wayne Simmons of Tucson said bicyclists should follow traffic laws, and noted he often sees bicyclists running the stop sign by his house on University Boulevard.
		Bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as motor vehicles, according to state law.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /index.php?page=local&story_id=032905a1_ticketingbicycles (677 words)

	Suburban sprawl challenges bicyclists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many of the roads provide the wide-open, scenic experience that bicyclists crave — until they hit the edge of suburbia.
		Bicyclists point out that the statistics don't reflect close calls or accidents that go unreported.
		Indianapolis resident Robert Corya says politicians hold bicyclists' fate in their hands.
	www.courier-journal.com /localnews/2003/09/08in/met-2-bike0908-6034.html (761 words)

	Adult Bicyclists in the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In December, 1996, 20% (4712) of the League of American Bicyclist members were surveyed about their cycling experiences during CY 1996.
		In each of the past several years between 800 and 1000 bicyclists have been killed and hundreds-of-thousands have been injured in the U.S. (5) While fatalities are well documented, there is very little data concerning the far more frequent but less serious crashes typically experienced by cyclists.
		The respondents to all three of these studies are clearly U.S. adults who frequently use bicycles for recreation and transportation and who could be called bicyclists rather than just people who occasionally ride a bike.
	www.bicyclinglife.com /Library/Moritz2.htm (4347 words)

	Bicyclists Must Share the Road Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I am extremely frustrated with bicyclists who refuse to obey the most basic traffic rules and common courtesies.
		Most of the serious bicyclists in our community are the first ones to complain about rude and offensive motorists who endanger their lives but the last ones to obey the traffic laws and share the road themselves.
		I am frustrated with local bicyclists sabotaging much of the good work the South Valley Bicycle Coalition and Share the Road Bicycle Safety Program have done to improve bicycle safety and the image of bicycling, and the so-called "serious bicyclists'" refusals to admit that the problem is their own dangerous riding.
	www.kernsharetheroad.org /HotTopics/bicyclistsmustsharetheroad.htm (455 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)