Seattle Weekly: Breaking the Vicious Cycle – 26 July, 2006
Seattle has a reputation as a cycling paradise, but there’s a lot that has to be done before bike commuting is truly viable for regular folks. Maybe it was the most recent $50 fill-up for your supposed economy car that did it. Or the [...]

Hi Fellow Bicyclistas,
For the past year BISA has been negotiating with a Transport department design team on a replacement structure for the dilapidated and dangerous Bakewell Bridge on the Western perimeter of Adelaide’s City Centre. This has resulted in a grand underpass (that is, the main arterial road will pass under a rail track and [...]

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin: Give cyclists a fair share of the road – 27 July, 2006
I am a bicycle rider. If given a choice of taking my car or my bike the 10 miles down the road to my destination, I will pick my bike any time. In this time of high gasoline prices, it [...]

DIER: Road Safety Strategy Feedback Form
What issues do you think need to be addressed to improve road safety in Tasmania? It is time for the Department of Infrastructure, Energy & Resources to develop a new Tasmanian Road Safety Strategy to guide activities to reduce the number and severity of crashes on Tasmanian roads. The Tasmanian [...]

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Forging a peace plan between cyclists and drivers – 26 July, 2006
Drivers hate cyclists because, it seems, they’re always flagrantly disobeying the law, running red lights and stop signs, but most of all because in doing so they slow down traffic and force cars to brake and swerve when [...]

Seattle Weekly: Tips for Beginning Bike Commuters: What you need to know to get started – 26 July, 2006
Figuring out a route
Sometimes the best way to get to work is not necessarily the shortest or fastest. Most cyclists start out finding the quickest route, or the one best supported by infrastructure such as bike lanes [...]

Islington Gazette News: New court sentences cyclists to bus or train – 26 July, 2006
Bike-riding barrister Ralph Smyth has nowhere to park his bike at the new Gee Street County Court
Cyclists are mounting a campaign for bike parking outside a new court in Finsbury. Gee Street County Court has just opened its doors in [...]

A Register-Guard Editorial: A Cyclists here to stay – 26 July, 2006 (Also refer to these previous WoJ posts on Jane Higdon)
Some of the positive change Sen. Floyd Prozanski hoped for has already occurred along the narrow, twisting rural road where 47-year-old Eugene bicyclist Jane Higdon was killed by a logging truck on May 31. [...]

Register Guard: Territorial bicycle safety solutions under study – 25 July, 2006. (Also refer to these previous WoJ posts on Jane Higdon)

Public efforts are under way to improve safety along Territorial Highway southwest of Eugene, where a bicyclist was killed by a passing truck in May. But there are pointed and divergent opinions about safety [...]

South Warwickshire: Young cyclists to learn road savvy – 25 July, 2006
Young cyclists will have an opportunity to improve their cycling skills and undergo on-road training during the summer holidays. Warwickshire County Council’s cycle training scheme has trained 14,000 children over the past five years, with all Warwickshire schools being offered training courses. But [...]