Just 111 days left until Los Angeles fails to meet its Vision Zero pledge to eliminate traffic deaths by 2025.
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It’s a light news day, so let’s get right to it.
And yes, my shoulder is grateful for that.
Apropos of nothing, today’s image is an AI corgi on a bicycle.
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Oceanside is hosting a public meeting next Wednesday to discuss closing a vital gap in San Diego County’s Coastal Rail Trail.
The City of Oceanside is planning to improve the multi-use trail connectivity between Buccaneer Park and Vista Way, and add a new trail from Vista Way to Carlsbad Boulevard. Join us online for an update on the trail: Wed., Sept. 18 @ 6PM. More: https://t.co/nTTIF1lYrE#Oceanside pic.twitter.com/ylAyMOHLfQ
— City of Oceanside (@CityofOceanside) September 10, 2024
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It’s now 265 days since the California ebike incentive program’s latest failure to launch, which was promised no later than fall 2023. And 39 full months since it was approved by the legislature and signed into law — and counting.
Meanwhile, Streets For All insists the vouchers are coming soon, so let’s hope they know something we don’t.
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
No bias here. A 60-something English man was the victim of a hit-and-run while riding his bike on Monday. Yet the local press just blames the “horsebox” — aka horse trailer on this side of the pond — for striking him, without even mentioning there was probably a driver towing it.
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Local
Culver City-based Walk ‘n Rollers will host their family-friendly Fall Festival bike safety event this Sunday in the Culver City Middle School Parking Lot.
Burbank is now offering free bike racks to local businesses to install in the public right-of-way.
State
Sad news from San Jose, where a man was killed by a driver while riding his bike near a freeway onramp.
In a story originally blockaded by the San Francisco Chronicle’s draconian paywall, Waymo alleges a bike rider made intentional contact with one of their automated robotaxis, and deliberately fell over afterwards. Or the rider could have put his hand out to avoid getting hit, and fell over as a result. Just saying.
National
Electrek says yes, bike riders should roll stop signs.
Cycling News explains the many, many different flavors of road bikes.
A new study published in Nature examines the possibility of automated computer analysis of near-miss collision studies, opening the door to real-time AI data analysis.
Seattle learned the hard way to improve streetcar crossings, after paying out a total of $5.75 million to settle with two bicyclists who were injured when their tires got stuck in the tracks.
The mayor of Las Cruces, New Mexico will host a bike ride with local residents on Saturday. Something our bike-riding mayor still hasn’t done. And probably won’t.
Residents in their hometown were shocked by the deaths of the hockey playing Gaudreau brothers, killed by an alleged drunk driver — who grew up in the same New Jersey county — the night before their sister’s wedding.
International
The UK is testing out AI-controlled traffic lights that give priority to people on bicycles to create a green wave bike route.
Sixty people set off on a 390-mile ride from the UK to Paris to remember 18 members of an English rugby club who were killed in a 1975 plane crash near the French city, including eight children and four grandchildren of the crash victims.
Dublin, Ireland is installing new traffic signals with flashing arrows to give bike riders priority over drivers for making left turns, the equivalent of our right turns.
Momentum rides France’s La Régalante, a new 170-mile bike route weaving through the historic Marches de Bretagne from Mont-Saint-Michel to Nantes, saying it offers “a seamless blend of adventure, culture, and natural beauty.”
Competitive Cycling
Velo explains Sepp Kuss’ unexpected vanishing act from the Vuelta top ten.
Finally…
That feeling when the former cyclist in your advertorial really stretches the meaning of former. Who needs to get published in a poetry magazine when you can deliver them directly by bicycle?
And if you’re going to bet that no one is using a new protected bike lane, be ready to put your money where your mouth is.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin
