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Protected bike lanes boost biking rates, induced demand works for bikes too, and ebike gaslighting as a government skill

January 12, 2026 / / No comments

If you build it, they will come.

A new ten-year study from several Canadian universities show that bike lanes can reduce injuries and increase bicycling rates.

But only if they’re protected.

According to the study, painted bike lanes showed an actual increase in bicycling injuries, as well as either only slight increases in bicycling rates. Or even a decrease in one city.

Protected bike lanes are another matter. They showed either no effect, or a drop in bike-rated injuries, while resulting in significantly higher riding rates — up to 700% in one city.

Results for converting painted lanes to protected bike lanes were inconclusive, simply because there weren’t enough examples to draw a conclusion.

Another interesting tidbit was that researchers had to verify both the type of bike lanes and their installation dates, because municipal records were often either inaccurate, or misidentified what was installed.

Which makes you wonder if they were referring to what Los Angeles too often calls a protected bike lane, while offering little more than a little car-tickler bendie-post to keep errant drivers out, rather than any form of actual protection.

Photo of the late, great MOVE Culver City protected bike lane by Mitchell Guzik.

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Another study, this time from the UK, shows that induced demand is real.

In more ways than one.

The process of widening highways to cure congestion has been compared to losing weight by loosening your belt or buying bigger pants, because traffic will soon increase to meet, or exceed, the additional capacity.

Hence, inducing demand.

Like the widening of the 405 Freeway over the Sepulveda Pass, which cost $1 billion and resulted in increased congestion in less than a year.

We would have gotten more for our money if they had just burned that billion bucks and used it to power the city.

But now a study from England’s iconic Cambridge University shows that the same thing works with bike lanes and transit lanes, as well.

Build or expand a new bike lane, and the number of bicyclists using it will go up; improve train or bus service, and the same holds true — the added capacity encourages more people to use it.

Although as that Canadian study shows, the quality of the infrastructure matters, too.

Build a bike lane that people feel safe using, and they will. Build a bike lane they don’t feel safe using, and they won’t.

Which means we need to demand the kind of infrastructure that will induce demand.

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Calbike responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget by calling for an additional $200 million for the state Active Transportation Program, and $15 million for ebike incentives, arguing it’s “one of the most cost-effective, scalable, and immediately transformative investments California can make.”

The ATP remains California’s only dedicated statewide funding source for walking and bicycling infrastructure. It is also one of the state’s most effective climate tools. Yet, despite delivering measurable reductions in vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas emissions, ATP funding continues to lag far behind demand. In recent funding cycles, the California Transportation Commission has been forced to turn away the vast majority of high-quality, shovel-ready projects. At the same time, the transportation budget preserves billions in highway and freight investments that continue to induce driving, increase pollution, and undermine the state’s climate goals. These backward-facing investments lock Californians into decades of higher emissions and greater exposure to climate disasters, even as the state acknowledges the scale of the climate crisis.

Governor Newsom has been clear: “This January budget is not the final word. It is a beginning—a statement of purpose.” CalBike urges the Legislature to use that opening to correct the imbalance in transportation spending. That begins with significantly increasing funding for the Active Transportation Program and making a clear commitment to a transportation system that prioritizes people, safety, and climate outcomes over vehicle throughput alone.

Let’s hope someone is listening this time.

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Meanwhile, Brooks forwards a LinkedIn profile for one of the people who helped lead the disastrous California Ebike Incentive Program, who seems to frame it as an enviable success.

Because as we all know, gaslighting is an invaluable career skill if you’re going to work in government.

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In news that should surprise absolutely no one, a former cop is alleging that no one properly investigated a 13-year old crash involving the wife of the premier, or governor, of Australia’s Victoria state, and a 15-year old boy on a bicycle.

One that cost the kid his spleen.

According to the premier, his wife had came to a full stop, and was just starting to turn when the boy came flying out of the woods on a bike path, and slammed into the side of her SUV with enough force to bash in her windshield and fly over her car.

That’s what she says, anyway.

Because after that, things get a little funny. The officer initially assigned to the case — the same one making the allegations — says he was rushing to the scene when he was told, in effect, to never mind.

Mr Hanley, who was initially instructed to attend the crash scene before being ordered to stand down, alleges police committed at least 35 procedural failures.

He claims officers failed to interview Mr Meuleman (the victim) or key witnesses, did not properly examine the vehicle involved, and allowed the investigation to die a natural death.

Mr Hanley has also alleged Mr Andrews delayed calling triple-0 (or 911 in this country) for more than six minutes and that the damaged SUV was moved from the scene, claims the former premier has previously rejected.

It’s not like a sitting premier could have pulled strings to get the investigation dropped or anything, directly or indirectly.

Right?

It’s taken the boy’s family 13 years to get justice in this case. And nothing says they’re going to get it now.

But maybe now they’ve got a shot.

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Streets For All is hosting a mobility debate on January 22nd with the candidates running for LA City Controller.

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LADOT wants to know what you think as they prepare the city’s first Mobility Action Plan, which will guide how LA invests in streets, sidewalks, transit, biking, and walking for the next 5–20 years.

And no, I don’t know how that’s any different from the city’s mobility plan, which purports to do virtually the same thing.

Unless the MAP is how the city plans to implement the mobility plan, which they have so far been doing everything they can to avoid implementing.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A writer for Canada’s conservative National Post says a judge’s ruling that a right to bike lanes is guaranteed by the country’s charter — equivalent to our constitution — makes a mockery of it, and should be overturned on appeal.

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

A local newspaper is calling for safety improvements on a South Carolina bridge after a bicyclist killed a pedestrian when the man wandered out in front of him on the shared pathway across the bridge, while riding at around 20 mph.

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Local 

The popular Larchmont Village bike corral is now in its second decade of service; it was originally installed by LADOT in 2014 at the request of former CD4 Councilmember Tom LaBonge, in cooperation with local businesses and the erstwhile Flying Pigeon LA bike shop.

 

State

No news is good news, right?

 

National

CityLab makes the case for why we still don’t know if robotaxis are any safer than human drivers.

Police in Iowa are looking for a pair of motorcyclists who tore up a golf course, then fled on a bike path when police arrived, nearly hitting a pair of bystanders.

Damn. Chicago authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information on whoever beat a 62-year old man to death on the Loop in 2023, first using a construction sign, then the victim’s own bicycle.

A 72-year old Tennessee writer confesses that he now own an e-mountain bike, of the ped-assist variety.

You’ve got to be kidding. Life is really cheap in Massachusetts, where a driver walked with a suspended sentence for killing a woman walking her bike in a crosswalk, while he was driving distracted and without a license.

Gothamist says a key test of New York Mayor Mamdani’s commitment to bicycling will be what he does with a three-block stretch of bike lanes on Bedford Ave, where the former parking-protected lane was abruptly removed by former Mayor Eric Adams in a effort to appease, and get the votes of, the Orthodox Jewish community.

Jury selection has begun in the trial of a “homeless drifter” accused of killing a 14-year old boy in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida more than four years ago, when the boy was attacked and stabbed for no apparent reason as he was riding his bike, leading to a multi-day search when the boy didn’t return home; the suspect changed his plea from an insanity plea to not guilty, which will void any future attempt at an insanity defense.

 

International

Bike Radar answers the burning question of whether a tubeless tire is more likely to blow out than a clincher with a tube.

Five cities where owning a bicycle can save you thousands of dollars, or the local equivalent, per year. Only one of which is in the US. And none of which is Los Angeles. 

Rapha is addressing its financial problems by closing five stores in the US and UK, following eight successive years of financial losses; the closures leave 20 Rapha Clubhouse shops around the world.

The best five minutes of your day may be this piece from Canadian Cycling Magazine, recapping the best bicycling cameos in scripted television, from Monty Python and Benny Hill to the Simpsons and Family Guy. We’ll ignore for now that most unscripted television is, in fact, scripted. Just a little less so.

Life is cheap in England, where a road-raging driver was sentenced to a lousy 150 hours of community service for blaring on his horn and brake-checking a group of bicyclists. But at least the judge warned him to give people on bikes space and respect on the road.

Everything you always wanted to know about getting around Paris by bicycle, but were afraid to ask.

Dutch electronics chain Coolblue will now sell bike helmets, as well as require helmets for their bicycle couriers, after the company’s CEO fell off his bike and broke his front teeth. Even though bike helmets provide little to no mouth protection. 

A Vietnamese website questions whether the new 3.6-mile bike lane in Ho Chi Minh City will spark greater interest in urban bicycling, and help make bikes the country’s new transportation solution.

 

Competitive Cycling

World champion and four-time Tour de France champ Tadej Pogačar joined hundreds of other bicyclists on a memorial ride for Samuele Privitera, the 19-year old Italian cyclist killed during last year’s Giro della Valle d’Aosta.

American cyclist Chloé Dygert has launched a crowdfunding campaign for former tracking cycling teammate Sarah Hammer-Kroening, one of US cycling’s most decorated athletes with four silver Olympic medals and 12 world titles, after Hammer-Kroening underwent seven operations for a severe medical condition; the page has raised nearly $89,000, far exceeding the previous $55,000 goal.

British mountain bikers competed in a 24-hour, snow-covered challenge over the weekend, completing as many laps of the 7.5-mile course as they can in that time period, in temperatures down to 0 degrees. Although that’s Celsius, which translates to a relatively balmy 32° Fahrenheit on this side of the Atlantic. 

 

Finally…

Your next ebike doesn’t have to look like one, as long as you don’t need an actual water bottle in the water bottle holder. That feeling when you finally recreate the iconic movie scene of a bike flying in front of the moon with ET in the basket — without the actual flying, of course.

And tackling a 43.5-mile roundtrip over the highest mountain pass in Great Britain, aided by a rickety old bike and a “wee dram” of whiskey.

Or maybe a lot of “wee drams.”

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Dangerous streets keep kids off bikes, Canadian bike riders have a right to not get killed, and CicLAvia rolls on Sunday

August 14, 2025 / / One comment
Day 226 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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She gets it.

A writer for the Washington Post says dangerous streets make it hard to give kids the freedom they need to roam and explore.

In recent decades, many of America’s roads have indeed become more chaotic: Speed limits are higher; vehicles are (much) bigger; drivers are more aggressive and more likely to be distracted by smartphones. When parents see massive SUVs speeding down neighborhood streets or blowing through stop signs, they might feel less inclined to allow their kids to roam freely on foot or bicycle. And though the number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, research by the CDC notes that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.

This pattern, some parents say, can create a self-perpetuating cycle: If drivers are less accustomed to encountering kids on roads, they might be less likely to drive safely around them, which in turn makes parents more anxious and restrictive of their child’s movements.

It’s worth giving the whole story a read.

Because one of the most common refrains from parents is that they would never allow their kids to ride on city streets, in Los Angeles or elsewhere, whether or not they ride themselves.

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He gets it, too.

In a piece that starts out very tongue-in-cheek before evolving — devolving? — into legalese, a Canadian columnist takes conservatives to task for complaining about a recent court ruling ordering the government not to remove Toronto’s protected bike lanes.

It was judicial activism run amok, they agreed. Canada’s ever-inventive courts had discovered a “right to bicycle lanes.” What next: a right to volleyball courts? Time to invoke the notwithstanding clause, said some.

Well, that was then. When, one week ago, the Conservative government of Nova Scotia, with the province’s forests tinder-dry and fearing a repeat of the devastating wildfires of two years ago, issued a ban on hiking and camping in forested areas, conservatives were again apoplectic.

But the real issue, he says, is whether the government has the right to kill you.

The issue at stake in the bicycle lanes case is disarmingly simple: does the government have the right to kill you? It is not hyperbole but demonstrable, probabilistic fact that banning bike lanes will sentence a certain number of randomly selected Torontonians to death, and cause serious injuries to still more…

That’s also reflected in our Constitution. Section 7 of the Charter does not assert an absolute right to “life, liberty or security of the person” but the right not to be deprived thereof “except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”

Because removing bike lanes could predictably deprive some people of their “life, liberty or security of the person.”

And likely would.

Which does not mean the government has to build bike lanes. But it does mean the court had a reasonable basis to prohibit the government from removing them.

Nothing in the decision obliges the government to build new bicycle lanes. As such it involves no “positive rights,” which conservatives are right to oppose. It simply requires that before a government takes the extraordinary step of ordering the removal of lanes that have already been built – an action guaranteed to cost some lives and put many more in peril – it ought at least to have some basis in evidence or logic for doing so.

Maybe we should try that same argument on this side of the border the next time someone wants to rip out an existing bike lane here.

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CicLAvia marks its 61st open streets event this Sunday with the 6.75-mile Culver City meets Venice CicLAvia, connecting Culver City, Mar Vista and Venice.

Hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the first one on 10-10-2010. And even harder to believe now that we thought it would never happen when CicLAvia’s founders came to the LACBC, now BikeLA, board to ask for our support.

Meanwhile, KNBC-4 suggests honoring the Venice lifestyle by skating the whole route.

Thousand, a woman-owned Boyle Heights bike helmet-maker, will celebrate their tenth anniversary by giving away 1,000 helmets at their booth at the Mar Vista Hub.

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The Spring Street bike lanes in DTLA are getting new safety barriers, with enough separation to hopefully prevent the kind of injuries San Diego bicyclists have complained about.

https://twitter.com/LADOTofficial/status/1955736202172092503

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

No bias here. Middlesborough, England is going to spend the equivalent of nearly $3 million to rip out a bike lane derided as “an absolute nightmare” and “exploited by drug dealers,” despite spending just $100,000 to settle injury claims after it went in — and spending $2.3 million to install it just three years ago.

A Dublin, Ireland city counselor accused civic leaders of “pure gaslighting” and treating bicycles “like a child’s toy” by shutting down a popular bicycle route, forcing riders into an “anti-cycling death trap.”

But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.

British motoring lawyer Mr. Loophole accuses bike cam vigilant Cycling Mikey of using his bicycle as a weapon by pushing it into the path of a driver attempting to illegally drive down a closed roadway, resulting in his bike getting run over and shattered into pieces. So he’s saying it wasn’t a very good weapon?

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Local 

Streets For All released their August newsletter, including calls for protected bike lanes on Pico Blvd and Alameda Street.

 

State

California is hitting pause on a requirement to install bike parking in new commercial and residential buildings, after the legislature passed a bill delaying the requirement until 2027.

A Monterey County woman says there’s no law against kids under 16 riding an e-scooter or a Class 1 or 2 ebike, but maybe there should be. Actually, there is a law against riding e-scooters without a driver’s license. 

Sad news from Yuba County, where a 60-year old man was killed by a driver while towing a trailer behind his bicycle.

 

National

An op-ed writer in USA Today argues that ebikes are driving him crazy, so we need to make them obey the same rules as drivers. Even though most drivers don’t.

Singletracks offers a guide to the ten best downhill mountain bike trails in Idaho.

Portland’s mayor has called a pause on plans to remove diverters and change the traffic flow on two neighborhood greenways, after the bicycle advisory committee increased pressure on the city.

Police in Houston arrested a 40-year old man in the fatal stabbing of a 77-year old man as he was riding his bike to work; the victim somehow made it to his job site before collapsing, and died at the hospital.

This is the cost of traffic violence. A 70-year old cancer treatment specialist in the Indiana University medical system was killed by a driver while riding his bike on Monday.

A Boston writer explains how she fell in love with her ebike after moving here from France, saying biking every day makes her life better.

Princeton, New Jersey banned right turns on red lights as part of the city’s Vision Zero program. Meanwhile, Los Angeles just tells drivers to carry on. 

Arlington, Virginia is joining the ebike rebate movement, offering vouchers for up to $1650 on the purchase of an ebike. Although those ebikes are about to get a lot more expensive, thanks to Trump’s 30% tariff on goods imported from Asian manufacturers. 

An Atlanta photo exhibition documents one man’s journey to bike every single street inside the city’s I-285 perimeter.

A TV station in Lake Charles, Louisiana unmasks a mysterious man on a Mardi Gras-festooned ebike, who says he rides through the community because “he loves to see people smile.” Although something tells me Adorian Hollywood Flavor probably isn’t his real name. 

A Florida teenager was lucky to survive his first day of school when he was struck by a driver while riding his ebike in a crosswalk, after witnesses teamed together to lift the car off him.

 

International

A recent study ranks Victoria, British Columbia as Canada’s most bicycle-friendly city, edging out Winnipeg and Quebec City.

The 134-year old Cycling Weekly introduces the British nonprofits working to transform the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers by providing them with bicycles.

A clueless Conservative city counselor in the UK questioned why disabled bicyclists can’t simply get off their bikes and push them across a footbridge. Um, maybe because they’re disabled?

 

Competitive Cycling

The Cyclists’ Alliance, the union for women’s cycling, is calling for mandatory, annual screening in the wake of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s victory at the Tour de France Femmes, amid comments about her drastic weight loss.

Cyclist offers a preview of the three-stage Tour de Romandie Féminin, which kicks off tomorrow.

 

Finally…

What it’s like to suffer for the sake of science on a ten-mile time trial. That feeling when you stop riding in the year’s hottest month because your cleats are haunted.

And we may have to deal with stampeding LA drivers, but at least we don’t have to worry about getting trampled to death by elephants.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Teen bike rider murdered in deliberate hit-and-run, Canadian bike lane madness, and assess bike/ped safety in your town

November 25, 2024 / / Comments Off on Teen bike rider murdered in deliberate hit-and-run, Canadian bike lane madness, and assess bike/ped safety in your town
Just 35 days until Los Angeles fails to meet its Vision Zero pledge to eliminate traffic deaths by 2025. 
But so far, no LA city leader has even mentioned the impending deadline. Let alone done anything about it. 

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If you missed it over the weekend — and that was easy to do, given the relatively minimal press coverage — a 16-year old boy was murdered by a driver who deliberately ran down his bike in LA’s Exposition Park on Friday.

The boy was part of a group of around 40 kids who got into some sort of altercation with a road-raging driver while riding south Figueroa Street, just above Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, allegedly breaking the car’s mirror.

The teens rode through a gap in the fence surrounding BMO Stadium in an effort to get away from the driver. But the driver followed them into the parking lot and slammed into the victim, then fled afterwards.

The victim died at the scene.

To make this horrific, needless tragedy even worse — if that is even possible — the boy reportedly had nothing to do with the dispute on the roadway, making him an entirely innocent victim.

So far, teenaged victim has not been publicly named.

There is also no description of the driver or suspect vehicle, other than a four-door sedan, with a broken side mirror and likely front-end damage.

The CHP is investigating the killing, since it took place on state property. Anyone with information is urged to call the their Southern Division Major Crimes Unit at 323/644-9550, or the Los Angeles Communication Center at 323/259-3200.

Let’s hope they find this murderous jerk soon, and get him off the roads.

Permanently.

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No surprise here.

It turns out that ripping out Toronto bike lanes like Ontario Premier Doug Ford — brother of the city’s late crack-smoking mayor — is demanding would actually make the city’s traffic worse, not better.

Meanwhile, a Mastadon user says the hundreds of bicyclists participating in a Toronto protest received a hero’s welcome from both pedestrians and drivers.

And a former Winnipeg city counselor and Canadian cabinet member called for halting new bike lanes, arguing that “Bike lanes have become more symbolic than functional, and symbolism is not enough to justify millions in spending.”

Never mind that bike lanes have repeatedly been shown to boost local businesses and property values while improving safety and livability for everyone.

Which should more than justify the relatively small amount to build new bike lanes, here, there or anywhere.

Thanks to Megan Lynch for the heads-up. 

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Applications are now open for community groups to apply for two programs run by the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) designed to train people how to assess bicycle and pedestrian safety in their communities, and recommend how to improve it.

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Be on the lookout for a stolen trailer full of hot bike gear taken from Culver City’s Walk ‘n Rollers.

Not to mention the lowlife schmuck who made off with it.

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It’s now 341 days since the California ebike incentive program’s latest failure to launch, which was promised no later than fall 2023. And a full 41 months since it was approved by the legislature and signed into law — and counting.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.   

Is anyone really surprised that the leader of an Irish political party says he gets more abuse “week in, week out” while riding his bicycle than he does as a politician?

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Local  

Streetsblog talks with sustainability advocate, LA County transportation deputy and newly elected Culver City Councilmember Bubba Fish, who restores the city’s narrow progressive majority; losing that majority two years ago resulted in conservative councilmembers ripping out the successful MOVE Culver City protected bike lanes.

Streets For All is encouraging people to become supporting members for just $12 a month, looking to reach 200 members by their member event next month.

Eastern Ave in El Sereno will get a major makeover this fall to bring better bike paths, safer sidewalks, more trees and traffic calming.

 

State

Streetsblog San Francisco examines Emeryville’s nearly completed sidewalk-level Horton Street bike lane.

Sebastopol is looking into the viability of building a multi-use path bisecting the city.

 

National

Now you, too, can build your own ebike out of PVC pipe.

According to the former head of the Federal Highway Administration, barrier-protected bike lanes are a “proven safety countermeasure” that has been shown to reduce crashes “an average of exactly 49 percent on four-lane, undivided collector and local roads” in an urban area, and they have reams of federally compiled data to back it up.

You can find a lot of things while riding your bike, but no one wants to discover human remains along a Phoenix area bike path.

Bike helmets — they’re not just for surviving Oklahoma tornadoes anymore.

New York Magazine considers the best holiday gifts for bicyclists, chosen by bicyclists.

A lifelong Jersey City, New Jersey resident  says a recent op-ed saying plans for a new bike lane are hated by locals relied on cherry-picking opinions while “ignoring both data and the realities of traffic safety.”

The good news is the Pennsylvania legislature didn’t reject a bill legalizing protected bike lanes, but the bad news is they didn’t pass it, either.

Congratulations to workers at DC’s Washington Area Bicyclist Association, who are now officially unionized.

If you’re riding your bike from Delaware to Key West, it only makes sense to honor the late Jimmy Buffet along the way.

 

International

Cycling Weekly asks why cars, trucks and SUVs keep getting bigger, questioning whether it will ever end. And they say modern bikes are so good, they take the worry out of riding.

Bicycling offers advice on how to safely do an Idaho Stop. But you’ll need a subscription to read the story, because this one doesn’t appear to be available anywhere else. 

Momentum considers the “world’s coolest and most unique” bicycling infrastructure innovations. None of which can be found in Los Angeles. Or the US, even.

A British Columbia judge denied bail to a man accused of trying to use a stolen dump truck to break into an ebike store, after he failed to bust through the security gates despite multiple attempts, just four months after he was arrested for using a forklift to break into a different ebike dealer.

Strange case from Cornwall, England, where a man in his 60s died crashing his bicycle into a parked car, just hours after going missing from a local hospital.

Bike lane opponents in Coventry, England are upset that trees are being cut down to make room for one, but only because they chose saving parking over saving trees.

A writer for the Guardian goes ebiking through Britain’s New Forest National Park.

That’s more like it. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called for banning SUVs from the city, warning that they could become weapons against other citizens. Even if the conservative London Telegraph takes great pains to point out that she’s a Socialist — capital S — which has nothing to do with banning SUVs 

A French soccer website criticizes Lionel Messi for his “overpriced bicycle scandal,” after the Argentine superstar introduced his own very high-end bicycle selling for more than $15,000.

New Zealand officials found a 78-year old man safe and well after he failed to return home from a mountain bike ride.

An Aussie program is teaching older women the joys of riding a bicycle. Thanks again to Megan Lynch.

 

Competitive Cycling

Costa Rican pro Andrey Amador called it a career at 38 years old, after he’s been unable to compete since a truck driver ran over his foot and bike while training in Spain last May.

Cycling Up To Date considers five “magical” cycling records Tadej Pogačar could set this year.

American cyclist Neilson Powless, the first Native American to compete in the Tour de France, wants to inspire more Indigenous Americans to get on their bikes.

 

Finally…

Why wait for officials to do something about distracted drivers, when you can just post your own traffic signs saying “Get off your damn phone.” When you’re under house arrest, maybe don’t show up to vote riding a bicycle.

And no, you don’t have to send a thank you note to the driver who gave your kid a new bike after crashing into him and destroying his old one.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin

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