Follow BikeBlips on Twitter
Blog Reactions
Spokes 'n' Folks: Car columnist pokes a stick in our spokes
Reactions
 |
RT @spokesnyt Is a backlash against bikes coming? This rather one-sided piece from a USA Today car blog seems .. http://bit.ly/3hb13j 11/5/2009 |
 |
Awful piece: RT @spokesnyt Is a backlash against bikes coming? This from a USA Today car blog seems to be a harbinger http://bit.ly/3hb13j 11/3/2009 |
 |
Two US Today articles show that we have a long way to go in Share the Road campaigns. http://bit.ly/1jmkrU http://bit.ly/2E3RU3 11/2/2009 |
Car columnist pokes a stick in our spokes
Spokes 'n' Folks —
... Chris Woodyard, the auto writer at USA Today, filed a column this week asking, Have motorists let bicyclists' 'rights' go too far? At the least it's a sign of the work that's ahead of us in making the case that streets are for all users. ...
Why is the word "rights" in quotations?
TheWashCycle —
A recent article in USA Today asks the question that is on the tip of no one's tongue: Have bicyclists "rights? gone too far? Punctuation errors aside, I have to wonder if Chris Woodyard, A USA Today auto writer, put the word "rights" in quotations because he thinks bicyclists have no rights. That would be odd since he lists bicycling as one of his interests. To him the sign that, yes indeed we have coddled cyclists for far too long, is the fact that instead of riding to the right or on the shoulder ...
Today’s Headlines
Streetsblog Los Angeles —
Boxer Honored for Green Transportation Leadership...by the Highway Lobby (AASHTO News)
Breaking News from the Times: Molina Critical of Eastside Extension Rollout
Why Non-Cyclists Should Care About the Bike Plan (Illuminate L.A.)
Metrolink Installs First Automatic Train Stops (VC Star)
O.C. Bus Riders Desperately Fighting Cuts (Register)
USA Today Blog Depicts Cyclists as Troublemakers and Asks: "Have Cyclist Rights Gone Too ...
Mailbag: Road rage, getting along and Floyd Landis
VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling —
... http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/10/620000345/1 Landis has some nerve to snivel about politics Editor: I was rather disgusted to see Floyd Landis' audacious moaning in the media that he may never race the Tour de France again: "I can't foresee what the politics in cycling will possibly lead to, but the organizations in control are not working well together. There are people caught in the crossfire and I happen to be one of them, so I don't know if the opportunity will come up again. I would like to. But it's very sensitive." Landis has had his days in ...
It is always the cyclist’s fault.
Drunkcyclist.com —
... is not getting a Christmas card from my family this year. [A] driver on the way to work struck a St. Mary’s County, Md., bicyclist earlier this month and killed him. . . The driver, a 20-year-old in her Honda Accord, told police she never saw the biker. But the accident might have been prevented if the 47-year-old bicyclist had been riding in the right, not in the dead center, of the lane, a major contributor to the accident. See Two-wheel troublemaking: Have motorists let bicyclist ‘rights’ go too far? If she did not see him in the middle of the lane, directly in front of ...
