Anyone with information is urged to call CHP-San Gorgonio at 1-951/846-5300.
De Leon was described as friendly to everyone in the Coachella Valley.
However, the TV station continued by citing nonspecific statistics on ebike crashes, without suggesting De Leon was even riding one. And offered information on upcoming safety improvements in Cathedral City, which is roughly 25 miles from where the crash occurred.
Absolutely none of which appears to be relevant to the crash that killed De Leon, or the coward who left him there on the street. Whether his life could have been saved if the driver had stopped to render aid or call for help, as is legally required, we may never know.
This was at least the eighth bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the third that I’m aware of already this year in Riverside County.
It also appears to be the second time a SoCal bike rider has been killed by a hit-and-run driver
My deepest sympathy and prayers for Steve De Leon and all his family and loved ones.
“Permitting right turns on red has always been a dangerous idea, which is why, when the first traffic lights and traffic laws rolled out, it was not allowed,” Jessie Singer told me in an email Thursday. Singer literally wrote the book on how “accidents” happen in America. “It is no coincidence,” she continued, “that in New York City, the most pedestrian-dense city in the U.S., right on red has long and largely been disallowed.”
The practice is inherently dangerous to pedestrians because, as Singer puts it, it “leaves the sanctity of the crosswalk and the life of a pedestrian in the hands of a fallible driver.”
Drivers can wait a few extra seconds to make their turn. Even if they’d likely think its the end of the world.
It would also eliminate the current free transfers by charging the full fare for every ride, with a daily cap of $6.
So if your typical roundtrip involves a single transfer in each direction, you’d pay $2 for each outbound leg, for a total of $4, and $2 for both return legs after hitting the daily cap.
That compares to the current $1.75 each way with free transfers, for a total of $3.50 a day — an increase of $2.50, which would represent a steep jump for many users.
It would also have a weekly cap of $20, which would only benefit daily riders with at least one transfer.
To make matters worse, it would also automatically adjust for inflation every four years, further increasing the already too-high fares.
In other words, the “simplified” fare structure is little more than a dramatic fare increase — exactly the wrong decision at a time when we need to encourage more transit use to get people out of their cars.
Let alone the opposite of the free fare system they promised to study.
The organization reports the current proposal doesn’t include plans to connect to Crescenta Valley Park north of the basin, because of a “small but loud group of opponents who don’t want to see ‘others’ coming into their neighborhood.”
Nope, nothing offensive about that.
The knee-jerk NIMBY reaction is reminiscent of the Trousdale Gap in the Expo Line bike path, which skipped the section along the railway behind the Cheviot Hills neighborhood after residents expressed fears ne’er-do-wells would ride their bikes up to peer in their windows and make off with their flatscreen TVs.
Because people in cars never, ever just drive up and burgle homes, apparently.
A “real-life Mowgli” who fled his Sudanese village to live in the jungle after being bullied over his microcephaly can now ride a bicycle for the first time, after a documentary about him went viral.
The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
No bias here, as a New York councilmember says the best way to encourage bike commuting is to discourage it by taxing, licensing and regulating riders.
Yes. If cycling is going to go from a hobby to a major part of our transit portfolio as a loud group of influential activists insist it should, then it only stands to reason it be regulated, licensed, and taxed as any other mode of transport. It’s the equitable thing to do. https://t.co/2T6ZlotVZb
No bias here, either. British bicyclists are urged to stop riding two-abreast and let drivers overtake them because nearly two-thirds of drivers don’t understand recent bike safety changes to the country’s Highway Code. Once again putting all the responsibility for safety solely on the people on two wheels, because of the ignorance of motorists.
Yanko Design says the app-controlled Keyless O-Lock from Copenhagen-based LAAS is the smartest and easiest way to keep your bike safe. Even though it only disables the rear wheel, but does nothing to keep someone from carrying your bike off.
