The RoadHog PDF is good and informative, but how come this is the first time I've seen them? I've been to the RMV to renew my license, and I've been visiting bike shops around town for the past seven years. It's one thing to have the information available and another to disseminate it effectively. And informative pamphlets are one thing, but I doubt we'll see any behavioral changes from either side of the equation until that information is applied equally, to every driver. I'd love to see this information on a driving test. If parallel parking is on the friggin' test, so should information on how to avoid killing a cyclist.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Watson</b> <<a href="mailto:david@massbike.org">david@massbike.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">MassBike does
in fact offer classes on how to ride safely in traffic; more than 200 people
signed up last year. We're putting together the spring schedule now, and
revamping our curriculum a bit, but the info will be up soon at <a href="http://www.massbike.org/skills/classes.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.massbike.org/skills/classes.htm
</a>.
We also have some tips online at <a href="http://www.massbike.org/skills/traffic.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.massbike.org/skills/traffic.htm</a>.
We've also got a pamphlet online that looks at the law from both a bicyclist and
motorist perspective: <a href="http://www.massbike.org/info/roadhog.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.massbike.org/info/roadhog.pdf</a>.
One of the goals of the Bicyclist Safety Bill is to make the law even more clear
about how cars should interact with bikes.</font></span></div><span class="sg">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">-David</font></span></div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_111c7d6c1310dc82_2">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>]<b>On Behalf Of
</b>Andrew Toomajian<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 06, 2007 11:31
AM<br><b>To:</b> Boston Critical Mass<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [*BCM*] List of
dangerous streets<br><br></font></div>I think it might be more productive to
focus on "best" routes rather than which streets are dangerous and why.
The SF Bike coalition, for example, makes a map of bike routes through the
city avoiding it's major hills. It would be a great project to do this
for Boston, with the goal of avoiding areas of especially high traffic,
severely pot-holed roads, etc. <br> <br>Me and the sweetie were
talking about this last night - does anyone offer classes or guidelines on how
to ride safely in traffic? This might be a great project for MassBike,
and I bet there is grant money for it somewhere. A lot of it boils down
to "when in doubt - take the lane" but I'm sure there could and would be more
to it than that. The sweetie has done a lot less city riding than me so
she ends up asking me for survival tips a lot. I bet a lot of people are
in a similar situation and a well promoted class would help avoid accidents
like this one. <br> <br><br>> <br>> Maybe Massbike could
compile a list of known, dangerous streets for<br>> bicyclist to avoid, or
at least be aware of. That would be the best help<br>> they could give for
now. We have a wealth of knowledge here that needs to<br>> be dispersed
before another tragedy occurs. I took Massbike's safe biking<br>> course
but found their insistence that city biking is safe a little<br>> detached
from reality. Bicycle safety is not as simple or easy as<br>> following a
few road rules. Not acknowledging this is very irresponsible.<br>> We don't
need to let another person to find out the hard way which<br>> streets are
unsafe.<br>> <br><br>
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