In the last few years, cycling has been flourishing in our city. The combination of gas price volatility, a vibrant social cycling scene, and more and better bike infrastructure has yielded a growing number of people choosing two wheels to get places. Unfortunately, the road to progress is rarely straight and sometimes bends back on [...]
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Missouri county considers bicycle ban
What is it about the Midwest and bikes? Last year, a group of Iowans circulated a petition calling for a ban on bikes on farm to market roads, and now the St. Charles County Council in Missouri is considering several ordinance changes including a complete ban on bicycles on some public streets. In classic paternalistic [...]
Colorado town bans bicycles for “safety”
Colorado, like Texas, has two sides when it comes to treatment of cyclists. On the one hand, Boulder routinely gets awards as a bike friendly community, and in just the last week Denver’s bike-share program B-Cycle announced early successes with over 8000 users in the first 30 days. Then the casino town of Black Hawk [...]
New petition seeks to ban cars from Iowa Farm to Market Roads
On Monday, we let you know about an online petition that is asking the Iowa legislature to ban bicycle on all Iowa farm to market roads. Not to be out done, a group calling itself the Coalition for the Safety of Citizens of Iowa put together a humorous counter petition, Stop sharing Iowa FM roads. [...]
Iowa petiton seeks to ban bicycles from most roads
A group calling itself Citizens for Safety Coalition of Iowa has created a petition to the Iowa legislature calling on the ban of bicycles on all farm-to-market roads in the state. Safety is the argument made for passing this law change. We the undersigned are Iowa residents who urge our Legislature to support a ballot [...]
