Portland had zero bike fatalities in 2010 (again)

Angela Burke doesn’t count?

What is the status of Karl Moritz? The guy seriously injured in Ladds back in June.

What happened to the heart attack victim at PIR?

And James Hill in West Linn – granted not in Pdx…but..

Just curious: 60 people died while walking in Oregon — how many of those were in Portland?

that’s great news for a city with a lot of people on bicycles… sometimes with all the crashes being reported we forget that non of them in Portland were fatal…

that’s something we can all be thankful for…

I wish there was a tri county view of bicycling in this area. Many of us do not live within Portland city limits per se, but considers ourselves Portlanders by proximity. I ride between Portland and Clackamas County daily. It would be good somewhere for there to be a more inclusive veiw of the tri county area for the rest of us

I kinda agree with Paul. It is a bit like Willamette Week that only covers Multnomah County, little else. Jonathon Maus did cover articles from other counties from time to time. It is really up to him but we could suggest him to include Clackamas and Washington whenever possible. BTW, I live in Clackamas County and work in Portland. I find many useful info in BikePortland. Thank you.

I too wonder about Karl Moritz and his family

Oh the snappy remarks I could make about Matt Greenlick right now, but it’s not worth it!

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This is great news. I would not have guessed this. Thanks for sharing.

I think that the influx of new riders have brought a new more rule compliant bunch of riders to the flock. They were drivers before and were used to going by the rules and also they are naturally a little more cautious. 5-10 years ago there were a lot of crazy cyclists riding the wrong way real fast… kamikaze like, dare devil delivery dudes… I think there is more peer pressure to be more compliant now. Also drivers are now learning to be more cautious around bikes with so many more on the road to look out for, especially after the well publicised catastrophe’s we had a few years back.

This is a very good thing, a good thing indeed.

This actually is a very interesting statistic that Jonathan highlights.

One could argue that the “startling” number of deaths while walking is a result of some sort of systemic shift in transportation mode choice and behavior. If these shifts were systemic, one would expect citywide trends to mirror statewise trends. Although I have no statistics to conclude it, one could reasonably infer that such systemic shifts would also create “startling” statistics about deaths while bicycling, since both modes share vulnerability traits.

The zero-bicycle-deaths-in-Portland statistic doesn’t go along with this.

Might this statistic be a piece of evidence that if governmental agencies like PBOT actually focus on minority road user (e.g., bicycle) safety in a meaningful way, roads become statistically safer than in places where that sort of safety consideration is an afterthought?

You can agree or disagree – I just think it is an interesting question to consider.

This isn’t fair. Here in Tampa cyclists are hunted down on the road and killed like partridges. If the cyclist is wearing dark clothes and skin color, the driver is publicly congratulated by our police and newspapers. Such cycling laws that we have are designed to harass poor people. It is just a shame that the US DOT does nothing to help spread best practices.

This is incredible for a city the size of Portland! I wish I could say the same about Bend… We’re getting there, but it’s a long road! Thanks for that encouragement.

jim
I think that the influx of new riders have brought a new more rule compliant bunch of riders to the flock. They were drivers before and were used to going by the rules and also they are naturally a little more cautious.

Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

The real danger is getting hurt and messed up very badly in a bike accident, you might be better off dead sometimes. Wearing helmets should be required. I am tired of seeing people riding with no protection.

A lot of times, no deaths just means better trauma care.

Does anyone have data on how many traffic collisions sent a cyclist to the ER (motor vehicle related or not)?

It’s probably fair to say that most cyclists were drivers at some point, but I still don’t see a specific connection between being a driver and using the streets safely. I usually see at least one each of both cyclists and drivers doing unsafe things on the road every day, whether it’s speeding, running stop signs (yes drivers do this too), riding at night without lights or whatever. There were no cyclist deaths and this is perhaps notable, but many people were still injured throughout all forms of transport. I think the question left hanging at the end of the article is what things we can do to make our streets safer still? Let’s identify what specifically is unsafe about the roads and try to work out solutions to address them, otherwise talking about safe streets is simply empty rhetoric.

What’s with these bikes that slap your car? This guy slapped my car … it was night, he didn’t have any lights and he was practically invisible.

Cyclists in Portland generate a lot of bad karma, I’ve commuted many many years by both bike and car and I have to say that many Portland cyclists substitute attitude for common sense.