Photo By: Velo_City
As I’ve commented on earlier this year, it’s felt like a really awful year on the safety front. However, I think some of that feeling may come from an increase in welcome attention on cycling and cycling accidents. It appears that while there has still been an unacceptable number of accidents and especially fatalities, it seems that this year has been safer than last year. Additionally, things are better nationally as well:
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Tausha Borland
Tausha Borland, who earlier plead guilty to last year’s Hit-and-Run crash in Sand Springs that left two cyclists dead and one injured has been sentenced to 24 years in prison:
A Sand Springs woman was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in prison in a manslaughter case linked to the deaths of two bicyclists.
Tausha Borland, 39, pleaded guilty Sept. 13 to two counts of first-degree manslaughter. She waived her right to a trial, and she had no plea agreement with prosecutors regarding her punishment.
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I’m sure most of us have gone out for a ride on a new route only to discover yourself stuck on a road that’s busier than you thought with no shoulder. Grant Volle is attempting to compile information on shoulder widths of roads throughout Oklahoma. He sent the following request to the Oklahoma Bicycle Society mailing list:
Hello!
I live in Tulsa, and have done several short self-contained tours in
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Oklahoma and other states over the past few years. One thing that I have
found helpful are the maps published by some states that show information
about AADT and shoulder width. As an example, Tennessee’s is here:
http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/bikeped/pdfs/BikePedSuitabilityIndex.pdf.
These absolutely wonderful, and given the limited nature of the cycling efforts around here, very surprising signs have been appearing around town. Finally, some recognition about the rights of cyclists on the roads and what is expected of motor vehicles.
However, someone has decided that these signs shouldn’t be put up in the first place:
Oklahoma City workers began installing signs to promote cycling in October, but vandals have torn down some of the new signs. The destruction has the cycling community concerned.
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Good news on Zach Perkins who was involved in last week’s crash. According to the DNA Racing home page, he has been discharged from the hospital:
After six days at OU Med Center Zach had finally been discharged! I’m pretty sure I hear him clicking his heals and saying, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. Get some rest buddy and heal quick!
via After six days at…| DNA Racing.
[Read More]A nice story on the various things going on in Norman to improve “bicycle friendliness”:
The Norman Bicycle Advisory Council hopes to combine federal funds for more bike lane striping with a local bike lane expansion project, which would include connecting south campus to the National Weather Center.
OU has a project in the works to make campus more bike-friendly, too.
The Norman campus is preparing an eight-month project, according to Jonathan Vann, UOSA Student Congress vice-chairman and Bicycle Ad Hoc Committee member. He said the project would create a bicycling route from the research campus to Jenkins Avenue and State Highway 9.
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So, I’ve been reading the comments sections of posts while doing research for OKCBicyclist.com. Some of them, like the comments in this article, just make my blood boil to the point where I sometimes feel the overwhelming urge to reply. In times like that, I should remember the following quote from Neil Stephenson:
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
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From KFOR News Channel 4:
Another bicyclist was hit while riding. It happened about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. As word spread in the cycling community, so did concern about the growing number of cyclists who are injured or killed because of a crash with a car. Wednesdays crash happened near Northwest 150th and Penn. Cyclist Zack Perkins was so seriously injured that paramedics rushed him to the hospital by medical helicopter.
via Competitive cyclist hit by car - KFOR.
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Well, new isn’t entirely correct. However, local cyclists and prominent OKC Bicyclist commenter Susan Lash has refashioned her “Life ~ Loves ~ Pursuits” blog as an excellent bicycle advocacy blog called For the Love of Bikes (http://www.loveofbikes.com/). The site is packed with good cycling tips, local and national advocacy stories as well as personal stories of her tours and trips. I highly recommend all area cyclists to bookmark this great resource.
Yeah, I know I only seem to be posting photos these days, but hey, at least I’m posting something . . . Here are some pictures from the 2010 State Fair of Oklahoma:
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