Gopher hole injury nets $450k settlement
U-T San Diego
3/13/15
[…] A San Diego man won a $450,000 settlement this month after injuring his knee on a gopher-infested soccer field in Ocean Beach.
In September 2012, Andre Walker, 30, suffered severe knee damage which required total knee reconstruction after stepping into a gopher hole at Robb Field, also known as Ocean Beach Recreation Area. […]
BMX track in south Jefferson County hopes for mid-summer opening
Denver Post
3/11/15
[…] A proposed BMX bike track near the intersection of Kipling Parkway and Hampden Avenue is going to move forward and could be operational by mid summer. […] BMX track builder Eric Bress, who designs tracks for Olympic competition, is volunteering to construct the track, which Turner said could take as little as two weeks to complete once work begins. […]
2015 Tour of the Gila Obtains Sponsorship
[…] I am pleased to let everyone know that we have a group of sponsors, local and nationwide, anchored by a key donor that are responsible for saving the Tour of the Gila, now dubbed the “Gila Monsters”. […] We are setting up an online crowd funding site that will enable us to bring back some enhancements that we had cut to trim the costs.
The demise and rebirth of cycling in Britain
The Guardian
3/10/15
[…] I’m not just interviewing Canadian, American and British cycle advocates, I’m also spending time with Dutch cycle advocates, trying to work out how their campaigns of the 1970s – such as Stop de Kindermoord, “Stop the child murder, and the free-to-use “white bicycles” of the Provo anarchist movement, precursors to the Bixi bike share bikes – were so successful. […]
Girl, 4, told by police not to cycle on the pavement
Cycling Weekly
4/10/15
[…] The parents of a four-year-old girl, who was told by police that she couldn’t ride her bike on the pavement, have described the officer’s reasoning as ‘daft’. […]
NBC San Diego
3/10/15
[…] The San Diego City Council is set to consider Tuesday whether to take state lands by eminent domain in order to build a sidewalk on a dangerous stretch of road in the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa area. […]
USA Today
3/9/15
[…] In Princeton, N.J., a plan to put in a new protected bike lane was tabled, much to the relief of residents who would have seen parking spaces cut down. More than 1,000 parking spaces have been eliminated over the last four years in Seattle, with more spaces slated to be lost as construction begins on new bike lanes. […]
Motorcyclist killed by cement lorry in hit and run outside luxury car showroom in west London
Evening Standard
3/10/15
[…] A motorcyclist has died after a hit and run collision with a cement lorry on a busy high street in west London. […]
NHTSA February 2015
[…] on-scene information about the events and associated factors leading up to crashes involving light vehicles. Several facets of crash occurrence were investigated during data collection, namely the precrash movement, critical pre-crash event, critical reason, and the associated factors. A weighted sample of 5,470 crashes was investigated over a period of two and a half years, which represents an estimated 2,189,000 crashes nationwide. About 4,031,000 vehicles, 3,945,000 drivers, and 1,982,000 passengers were estimated to have been involved in these crashes. The critical reason, which is the last event in the crash causal chain, was assigned to the driver in 94 percent (±2.2%)† of the crashes. In about 2 percent (±0.7%) of the crashes, the critical reason was assigned to a vehicle component’s failure or degradation, and in 2 percent (±1.3%) of crashes, it was attributed to the environment (slick roads, weather, etc.). Among an estimated 2,046,000 drivers who were assigned critical reasons, recognition errors accounted for about 41 percent (±2.1%), decision errors 33 percent (±3.7%), and performance errors 11 percent (±2.7%) of the crashes. […]
NYC to spend $250 million to make dangerous streets safer
Newsday
3/4/15
[…] More than 60 percent of pedestrian deaths occur on just 15 percent of the city’s streets, said Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner. […]
