By Rick Bernardi
Cyclists are dying in traffic, and it’s getting worse. And that raises the question—If we really wanted to protect cyclists from traffic fatalities, what would be most effective? Telling cyclists to …
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By Rick Bernardi
Portland, Oregon- Brett Jarolimek, 31, worked at a local bike shop, and was well-known in the Portland cyclocross scene. On the morning of October 22, 2007, Jarolimek was riding his bike to work. As he …
And do they need one to ride?
By Rick Bernardi
On October 13, an Oregon State University student named Genesis Hansen was arrested in Corvallis, Oregon after a routine traffic stop for riding her bicycle on the left side of …
This is the question raised by a recent traffic stop and arrest in Corvallis.
By Rick Bernardi
On October 13, Oregon State University student Genesis Hansen, 21, was alleged to be riding on the wrong side of the road, …
By Rick Bernardi
Hananja Konijn was riding his bike home from school when he was right-hooked by a truck. He was knocked off his bike and dragged a few feet before the truck came to a stop. The next morning, …
By Rick Bernardi
It had been a bloody year for New York City cyclists. Six months into the year, fifteen cyclists had already been killed in New York’s streets—five more than the total number of New York City cycling fatalities …
By Rick Bernardi
Stop as Yield.
It was the legislative Holy Grail for Oregon cyclists.
Idaho had pioneered the Stop As Yield concept—allowing cyclists to treat a stop sign as if it’s a yield sign—in 1982, and for decades, Idaho …
By Rick Bernardi
“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”
—Herbert Spencer
New York, New York
Sian Green had been excitedly anticipating her trip to New York City with one of her best friends, Keshia Warren. The two travelers from …
By Rick Bernardi
Joe Fasanello had stopped his bike at a stop sign in Peculiar, Missouri, waiting for cross traffic to clear. He had a GoPro mounted to his bicycle helmet, which is how he captured what happened next:
Peculiar …
By Rick Bernardi
Andrew Wood, a Deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, was returning from a call to investigate a fire at Calabasas High School when an email came in on his Mobile Digital Computer. Wood began typing …
