By Bob Mionske 43,000. Each year, that’s how many Americans are killed by motorists. For obvious reasons (size, speed, weight) automobiles carry an extremely high potential for causing lethal damage…
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When a cyclist is killed by a driver, justice is nearly always stacked toward the driver. And in this case in Toronto, the scales were tilted even more than usual….
When chased, crashed or bitten by a charging canine, here’s where you stand By Bob Mionske EVERY CYCLIST HAS HAD A PIECE OF A DOG’S MIND AT ONE time or…
State and Federal laws often have the cyclist’s back—especially when local laws don’t. By Bob Mionske Most cyclists, it seems, know more about traffic laws, and about their right to…
By Bob Mionske Imagine you’re listening to the radio one day, as you always do, and the radio personality is on a tear about how annoying the local softball league…
How and when to ride side by side, legally By Bob Mionske For many cyclists, riding with others, whether on an outing with a friend or an organized ride, is…
By Bob Mionske From time to time I get requests from cyclists who have reached the point of exasperation with an airline. The problem? An airline has accepted a passenger’s…
Suppose you were running a city, and you had the option to spend 5 percent of your transportation budget on transportation projects that would support 25 percent of all trips…
By Bob Mionske In November, I wrote the first of what I promised would be a two-part column on traffic injustice. Since then, breaking news on the situation in Philadelphia…
Drivers are increasingly impaired by phone calls and texts, and cyclists will pay the price until laws change Last July, Bradley Walck was reading a text message behind the wheel…