Encouragement, Education & Advocacy for Bicycling in the Real World
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Asked about how to counter the fear and scary statistics, Mighk said:
Quite frankly, the best way to convince people is to get them out riding on the road and get them riding the right [...]
The title is the conclusion from a study.
Until we get the media on board they will undo anything we try to do.
Title and abstract follows.
Newspaper framing of fatal motor vehicle crashes in four Midwestern cities in the United States, 1999–2000
S Connor and K WesolowskiDepartment of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University and Community Safety and [...]
As I swerved to miss the pedestrian — who had stopped, started, turned, and then walked backwards at the intersection all without seeing me approach — I had all my attention on making sure I did not startle (or hit!) the person right in front of me.
What I forgot was to watch for turning cars. [...]
Cite a study saying cyclists are only responsible for 10% of crashes and you might as well light a match to a field of tinder. The bike-advocacy community wants nothing more than to prove motorists are the culprits most of the time. A recent article regarding a Toronto crash “study” has ignited a new wildfire [...]
Several years ago, the NYC Pedestrian Safety Council produced cartoon ads that appeared frequently on TV in the NYC area. The ads urged children to “walk at the green, not in between” which worked well enough in NYC, since they have short blocks in a grid pattern and almost every intersection has traffic lights.
But what [...]
“Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.”
Did you see the Weekly article “How I got Hit“? I’ve been meaning to get to this for 2 weeks, but I’ve been busy with work… and I was grumpy. I’m still busy and grumpy, but I can’t let this go any longer.
The quote above has been [...]
Before anyone checks, I’ve probably used the same term before, but I think it’s time cyclists examine the term “unsafe” when we talk about roads… and quit using it.
A better term would be “risky,” but not for the reasons you might think. Risk is created by behavior. Some risk can come from the behavior of others. [...]
I’ve gotten the question (or argument) so many times. Variations on “Why do you insist on bicycling on the road?…You have no business being on the road…blah blah blah.”
So I’ve put all my answers together in one place. Point your browser to:
http://mighkwilson.com/benefits/why-bicyclists-use-roadways/
If you bookmark it you can then easily reference it and paste it into [...]
In the comments for the post How do we get from here to there? I asked readers to estimate how many miles they’ve biked in what they considered to be a “vehicular cycling” manner, and how many motorist-related crashes they’d experienced in those miles. Here are the results (which are of course not scientific, [...]
How’d they do this without huge infrastructure improvements? Read on and find out . . .
29.04.2009
The number of pupils cycling to class every day rose from 4 per cent to 8 per cent (out of 19,000 pupils surveyed) in ‘Bike It’ schools during 2008. Sustrans calls on Government to recognise this success and increase their [...]
