Bike Hugger: Cyclists safer in numbers?
The New York Times Freakonomics folks had an interesting run down of studies on cycling safety a couple of days ago, under the title Will Bicycling to Work Get You Killed?. Timely considering another recent fatality here on the West Coast.
The intuitive answer is that the more riders there are, [...]

Star Gazette News: Justice was not served in bicycle death case
Witnesses’ testimony deserved greater weight than judge allowed. Basically there was no real dispute as to the actual facts in the tragic case involving the Sept. 25 conviction of Kyle S. Bradley, the driver in the hit-and-run death of Steven Bacon. Those facts as presented [...]

The Times Online – Letters: Common sense is a casualty of road statistics. Figures should not be bent towards more laws and regulation
Sir, I heard with despair and déjà vu of another ten-minute rule bill in Parliament to make cycling without a helmet a crime: the third such attempt in recent years, this time by [...]

Atlantic.com: Bloom Energy bike commuters
I’m an avid, one might even say evangelical, bike commuter. It’s no slower, in DC, than driving a car, and it’s considerably cheaper and healthier. It’s also more flexible – no more fractional hours wasted looking for parking when every lamppost and street sign offers a spot. And it’s a whole [...]

The Age – Editorial: Peddling the right message for Melbourne
This morning Melbourne glimpsed what the future could, and should, look like. About 25,000 bicycle riders were expected to pedal to their mettle as part of Ride-to-Work Day. For the first time bike riders in other cities nationwide were doing the same. On yer bike is [...]

Sightlines Institute: Wheels of Fortune (Bicycle Neglect #10)
The benefits to you mount even faster if your community is bike-friendly enough to let you shed one of your cars. Then, you’ll save at least an additional $5 a day in car payments and other costs of ownership. (It’s astounding how much we spend on transportation, mostly [...]

Cebu Daily News: Challenge for cycling
I was going to write about something else when I received e-mail from our publisher and chief editor, Eileen Mangubat. She wrote: “Here is something you might be interested in.” That something was a news item from the Associated Press with the head: “Cycling gains ground in NYC amid [...]

New York Times: Finding Liberté on Two Wheels
My plane landed at Charles de Gaulle airport. I took the RER train into Paris, dropped off my bag and, two hours after landing, I was riding a bicycle down the Boulevard Saint-Germain. A kiosk, where you can pay, grab a bike and take off.
No, I’m not in [...]

Scotsman.com: Bumpy road for the city’s cyclists
Congestion on the Capital’s roads can garner opinions in much the same way rock star Pete Doherty attracts sniffer dogs. Everyone has got something to say and, given the botched congestion charging and traffic management schemes in recent years, they have had no shortage of talking points. But a [...]

El Paso Times: Get that darned bicycle outta here
Beto O’Rourke and his bike lanes — give it up, already. This here’s motor vehicle country, honk, honk! If we must have bike lanes, put them on new infrastructure designed for them. Don’t narrow the width of existing motor vehicle lanes. The South-West city rep, [...]