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 …
Maintaining Situational Awareness is a vital aspect of bicycle safety. If you understand the danger of a particular situation you’re in, you can take action to avoid or reduce the risk.
But even then, situational awareness may not be enough …
By Rick Bernardi
I was riding in the bike lane, heading from the Bicycle Law office to downtown Portland; up ahead, there was a T-intersection with a street to my right. And to my left, a car began to pull …
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 …
By Rick Bernardi
You can’t blame the Pokemon Go team for trying. The game, conceived as an Augmented Reality collaboration between Pokemon and Nintendo, and developed by Niantic, was intended to harness the possibilities of Augmented Reality and location-based technologies…
When we excuse careless driving by blaming the victims of careless driving, we ensure that other drivers will continue to drive carelessly.
Phil Gaimon was a self-described “fat kid,” with no real ambition in life beyond sitting on the couch …
By Rick Bernardi
Now I’ve done it.
Last week, I wrote about two fatal collisions in San Jose, California this July.
Only instead of saying “fatal collisions,” I used the words “Two Fatal Bicycle Accidents In San Jose, California …
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