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Bike law change #13: Require all employers to provide secure bicycle parking

Okay, so I lied. Yesterday I said I’d put up one final post in this series, for a total of 12. But this one is too important to leave off — even if it does leave me with an unlucky 13. Because no eff… more →

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brushing the law — 5 comments

labikerides wrote 5 months ago: I was kind of hoping that the California Vehicle Code would be kind of vague on this count: 21453.   … more →

Tags: Not Rides, riding ethics, the city, Bike Law, charles young drive, Red Lights, Signals, Tickets, Westwood

Bike law change #13: Require all employers to provide secure bicycle parking — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 8 months ago: Okay, so I lied. Yesterday I said I’d put up one final post in this series, for a total of 12. But … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, secure bicycle parking, bike racks, bicycle commuting

Bike law change #12: Turn stop signs into yields, and red lights into stop signs — 3 comments

bikinginla wrote 8 months ago: We’ve all been there. Maybe you have the good sense to take a back street through a quiet neighborh … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Red Lights, stops signs, yield for traffic, Idaho bicycling regulations

Bike law change #11: Investigate and prosecute any reported incidence of vehicular assault as a criminal violation — 2 comments

bikinginla wrote 8 months ago: Awhile back, following the infamous Mandeville Canyon brake test, a woman wrote to describe her exp … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Road Rage, Mandeville Canyon, Share The Road, cycling accidents, California Criminal Code

Bike law change #10: Assign greater responsibility to the more dangerous and less vulnerable road users — 2 comments

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: Disgruntled correctly noted that some members of the European Union — notably Denmark and the Nethe … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Share The Road, Malibu, cycling accidents, greater responsibility, increased liabiltiy

Bike law change #9: Require a bike lane or sharrows for any roadway with heavy bike traffic — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: Way back in the dark ages when I was just a fledgling rabble-rouser, my handbook of choice was the … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Bike Lanes, Share The Road, off-road bike paths, Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu

Bike law change #8: Require regular police and maintenance patrols of off-road bike paths — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: It should be the perfect place to ride. Instead of fighting our way through traffic or dodging driv … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Marvin Braude bike path, Ballona Creek Bike Path, off-road bike paths, Class 1 bike paths

Bike law change #7: Drivers should bear full responsibility for any accidents that occur in a designated bike lane — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: I was riding along Main Street in Santa Monica this morning when I met cyclist. You know how it goe … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Bike Lanes, responsibility, Safe Driving

Bike law change #6: Require that bike lanes be maintained in their original condition

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: This is the other side of the bike lane problem. So many times we’ve seen roadwork done on a bike l … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, Bike Lanes, road repair, safe roads

Bike law change #5: Prohibit unnecessary blocking of bike lanes

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: Here’s one of my pet peeves: You’re riding in the bike lane along a busy street, when suddenly up a … more →

Tags: General, Bicycle Safety, bicycling, Bike Lanes, California, Los Angeles, Share The Road

Bike law change #4: Clarify the law allowing drivers to leave their lane to pass a bike

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: As a driver, I was taught to give riders plenty of clearance when passing, even if that meant brief … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, traffic laws, California, safe passing distance, leaving lane to pass cyclists safely

Bike law change #3: Ban the “I just didn’t see him” excuse — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that cyclists and drivers sometimes try to defy the laws of p … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, traffic laws, California, Visibility, driving while distracted

Bike law change #2: Prohibit turning into the path of an oncoming cyclist — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: One of the most dangerous situations any rider faces is when a driver passes on the left, then make … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, traffic laws, California, Left Hook, Right Hook, turning in path of bicycle

Bike law change #1: Require drivers to maintain a minimum passing distance of three feet — 1 comment

bikinginla wrote 9 months ago: As it now stand, the law only requires that drivers pass a bicycle on the left, and maintain a safe … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Los Angeles, Bicycle Safety, traffic laws, California, safe passing distance

The nail that stands out, pt. 2

bikinginla wrote 11 months ago:   Feel free to copy & use this image. Or make a better one, and I'll post it here. After I … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Cycling, traffic laws, licensing cyclists, drivers vs. cyclists, Liability Insurance, drivers licenses, auto-centric society

The nail that stands out — 4 comments

bikinginla wrote 11 months ago: I used to work with this one guy, a third-generation Japanese American. Nice guy. And one day when … more →

Tags: General, bicycling, Road Rage, Cycling, Cyclists' rights, careless drivers, rude drivers, careless cyclists, rude and aggressive cyclists

California's New Cell Phone Laws: "Hands-Free" or "Logic Free?" — 2 comments

Matthew Gilbert wrote 1 year ago: As of 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 the California Vehicle Code (CVC) now mandates that all dr … more →

Tags: on the road, Personal, technology, 2008, 405 Freeway Southbound, Bakersfield, bluetooth, borg, Brain Power

6 Tips on the New California Driving Ban on Handheld Cell Phones — 1 comment

siegler wrote 1 year ago: Not so new, actually, as they were passed in late 2006, but the new prohibitions for driving while u … more →

Tags: Contracts, Business, Legal, legal agreements, vehicle policies, cell phone use, cellphone ban California


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