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2009

Dec 21 2009
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Road Rights – Philly’s Pushback

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

In October, two pedestrians died in Philadelphia after being hit by errant cyclists. Now, anti-cyclist sentiment is on the rise.

A NOTE: Part Two of Traffic Injustice will be the next post on the Road Rights blog. What’s happening in …

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Dec 15 2009
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Road Rights – Crunch!

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

There is—or was—a bike on your roof rack. Will your insurance cover it?

By Bob Mionske

You enter your driveway and hit the garage-door remote, then hear the crash. After a nanosecond of surprise, you realize that you forgot that …

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Nov 18 2009
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Road Rights – Traffic Injustice

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

This is the First of a Two Part Story

By Bob Mionske

Susanne Kibler-Hacker, 42, a highly-experienced cyclist, is the coordinator for New Hampshire’s ride-to-work days at her office. The morning of October 15, 2009, she was riding …

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Nov 05 2009
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Road Rights – Justice Served?

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

A road-raging doctor in Los Angeles received a guilty conviction this week, but will that effect cyclists in the long run?

By Bob Mionske

It was the road rage incident heard ‘round the cycling world —a motorist had harassed two …

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Oct 30 2009
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Road Rights – See And Be Seen

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

Light and reflector laws—and why you may want to do more than the law requires

With night falling earlier and the sun rising later, many of us will do at least some riding in the dark.

In California, “darkness” is …

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Oct 12 2009
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Road Rights – License To Ride

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

By Bob Mionske

The transition from summer to autumn has been a tough time for Toronto cyclists this year. On August 31, bike courier Darcy Allan Sheppard was run down by a driver in what wasapparently a violent incident …

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Oct 05 2009
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Road Rights – Turning Points

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

Cyclists are required to signal turns just as drivers are—or, rather, should. Specific turn laws vary by state, but the Uniform Vehicle Code (the UVC is a suggested set of traffic laws for states) provides a standard that helps us …

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Sep 16 2009
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Road Rights – When Worlds Collide

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

A swift public relations campaign couldn’t save a successful Canadian lawyer from the fact that he ran down and killed a bike messenger.

By Bob Mionske

He was Metis, one of the officially recognized aboriginal peoples of Canada. The …

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Sep 01 2009
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Road Rights – Making Better Laws

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

Laws that don’t help anyone usually go unheeded. But a smart one, in Idaho, could provide a nationwide model.

By Bob Mionske

In the polarized world of cyclist-motorist interactions, one sore point consistently emerges whenever drivers begin talking about cyclists—we …

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Aug 31 2009
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Road Rights – Where You Belong

By BicycleLaw 2009, Road Rights No Comments

Cyclists have a right to the road, but where we should be on that road depends on state law and conditions. Generally there are bicycle-specific statutes requiring us to ride as close to the right as practicable. “Practicable” means that, …

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