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, …
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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 …
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…
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 …
By Rick Bernardi
Some see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
– Robert F. Kennedy
From its earliest beginnings on American roads, the automobile …
By Rick Bernardi
San Francisco
It was Wednesday evening, rush hour, and hundreds of cyclists had gathered together at a San Francisco intersection to begin their rush hour ride. But this was no ordinary rush hour ride home. The cyclists, …
