On Sunday morning, Austinite John Simpson was hit and severely injured by a car while riding his bike to work. Simpson is a chef at the Austin Children’s Shelter and was hit at around 6 AM Sunday morning at the Berkman Drive and 51st Street. He is at Brackenridge Hospital and is in critical condition. [...]
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Cyclist injured in hit and run on New Year’s Day needs your help finding the driver
Over the weekend, KVUE ran this story on Mariel Mentink, a Chicago resident who was severely injured in a hit and run accident early New Year’s Day while coming home from the Social Cycling ATX New Year’s Eve ride. Police are looking for a gray or silver SUV or truck with recent front end damage [...]
KVUE “investigates” guerrilla bike lanes that don’t exist
At KVUE, ratings trump community good and a little things like the facts On Tuesday, we published a statement from city staff asking cyclists to refrain from making their own bike lanes with paint. This statement was in response to some online musings about doing DIY lanes similar to those done in Los Angeles. Seeing [...]
Cyclists and stop signs: Will someone come up with a constructive solution?
The controversy over cyclists failing to stop at stop signs has been swirling around the Austin cycling community the last few days, and we have certainly entered the fray and stirred the pot a bit ourselves. Things kind of came to a head with a Monday evening story by KVUE that many thought was pretty [...]
KVUE succeeds in its hit on the cycling community
Or how to report the story you want instead of the facts On Monday, I reported on an alleged crackdown that APD was doing on cyclists who run stop signs. It had become quite the hot topic over the weekend on the forums at Bicycle Austin. Several cyclists chimed in on getting ticketed and the [...]
Fox reporter charged with dragging cyclist four blocks in Central Park
The blog Gawker is reporting that a Fox News writer, Don Broderick, could face a year in jail for recently striking and dragging a cycling four blocks in NYC’s Central Park with his car then fleeing the scene. Brodericks’ rational when a writer for Gawker asked him about the incident: . . . when we asked a [...]
Austin cyclist shot with BB while riding
KVUE is reported last night on an Austin cyclist, Brad Urry, who was shot in the back with a BB gun while riding on Southwest Parkway in May. Urry said, two people in a light-blue Prius shot him in the back with a pellet gun and kept going. The half inch deep wound barely missed his spine. “When [...]
APD denying any crackdown on cyclists ever happened
In interesting e-mail from Austin cyclist Tom Wald is circulating about the Austin Police Department and their much reported crackdown on cyclists who break traffic laws. Tom wrote the police department a letter criticizing the program for singling out cyclists when motorists cause the vast majority of accidents that involve injury and deaths. Regardless of [...]
