The photo above was left on a bike a the University of Arizona. It’s good advice if you want to see your bike when you come back from your class. For more tips on keeping your bike and finding if it is stolen, read this.
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For the last five years the Pima Association of Governments has been counting bicyclists and pedestrians in October. They need volunteers however. Find out how you can help.
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2012.
Yesterday Calvin Loggins became the Old Pueblo’s latest late cyclist. He hung on at hospital for more than a week after being rear-ended by a motorist September 18.
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From yesterday’s Here and Now on NPR…
Do ‘Ghost Bikes’ Show Failures Of Road Sharing?
at:
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/09/27/ghos…
and today’s The Atlantic Cities…
A Cross-Country Crusade Against Pointless Bike Deaths
at:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2…
More proof you can get away with homicide, providing you’re not impaired and don’t leave the scene. So sorry, Mr. Loggins, that you inconvenienced this Van Tran driver and paid with your life.
Well, yes, A.J., one would think that one would want to contemplate the bus driver’s role in this deadly calamity…
Most road deaths (car, bike, ped) are pointless, needless and sickening. Most accidents are caused by impatience, incapacitation or inattention by one or more of those involved.