Day: November 14, 2006
Tell ODOT how to spend their money
ODOT needs to hear from cyclists about how they should spend a big pot of money set aside for “Transportation Enhancements”. This money must go to projects, “that strengthen the cultural, aesthetic, or environmental value of our transportation system.”
Lawyer addresses problems, potential of tougher driver negligence laws
“Oregon needs a new law making it illegal to cause serious bodily injury or death to a bicyclist due to ordinary negligence.”
-Lawyer Ray Thomas
Lawyer Ray Thomas is working to add language to existing driver negligence laws to make it easier to charge motorists with serious crimes when they cause major injury or death to cyclists.
Thomas addresses this important issue in his latest column in Oregon Cycling magazine (not yet published). Spurred by a spate of fatalities in Washington County last summer where the driver was only prosecuted for a traffic violation, Thomas writes,
Dealers descend on Portland for Super Seminar
This Friday, downtown Portland will play host to bicycle dealers from all over the Northwest when the National Bicycle Dealers Association stops in town for one of their Super Seminars.