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Day: January 20, 2006

Reactions to the maelstrom

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oregonian_easyriders
[From the Oregonian]

It’s been a crazy week around here.

The Randy Albright/TriMet thing has spilled over from my site to the local media, the blogosphere, and now to the national media (someone saw the video on Fox TV in Utah). The result is an avalanche of comments (101 on this blog at last count) and emotions from people on all sides of the issue. And I hesitate to say “sides” because I’m afraid this whole thing is becoming more about which side you’re on rather than recognizing that we all have a right to the road and life is much better when we peacefully coexist.

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ODOT publishes bike law summary

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I don’t think this could have come at a better time. Misinterpretations of bike laws are the basis of many false arguments. Now that ODOT has finally published a summary of all the bike laws pertaining to bikes in the Oregon Revised Statutes this shouldn’t be as much of a problem.

You can download the PDF here.

It would be much more useful to also have it posted as a web page, so if they don’t have plans to do that soon I might reformat it and do it myself.

Thanks goes to local cyclist Brian Scrivner for squeeking his wheel about this and to Sheila Lyons at ODOT for making it happen. This is, according to Michael Ronkin (ODOT’s Bike guy), “a good example of advocates and public agency staff working together.” Way to go!

Wallet-sized crash checklist

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Checklist: What to do when you're hit.

After I posted Austin Ramsland’s great checklist for what to do after you’ve been hit, a few people wondered if we could make a portable version. Thanks to the help and suggestions of readers, I found out about PocketMod, a nifty little service that can convert PDFs into handy, wallet-sized booklets.

I downloaded the program but before I spent any time with it, another reader was nice enough to do the work for me (thanks Jason!). He sent me the formatted file, I figured out how to fold it, and voila!…my very own, wallet-sized checklist. Now I just hope if I get hit I’ll be able to see straight enough to read the small print.

Here’s how to make yours:


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