Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Safety

Key Design Guide to Finally Include Protected Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 21, 2018 | 40 Comments

Protected bike lanes. Protected intersections. They're all included in the draft version of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' new engineering manual.

Buddy Amoroso, a Baton Rouge metro councilman, was killed riding his bike in June. Photo: Buddy Amoroso/Facebook

Biking Pol is Killed, So Louisiana Parish Blames Cyclists

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 6, 2018 | 11 Comments

Council members have proposed some dubiously legal requirements for cyclists including — true story — lasers.

Hit-and-run deaths involving pedestrians and cyclists are soaring. Graph: AAA Foundation

Hit-and-Run Deaths Are Skyrocketing, and Pedestrians and Cyclists Bear the Brunt

By Angie Schmitt | May 1, 2018 | 27 Comments

Hit-and-run drivers killed more than 2,000 people in the U.S. in 2016, an increase of 60 percent since 2009.

Residents of Potomac Street upset about the replacement of parking spaces to make way for this bike lane were the first to cite fire clearance as a reason to block the project. Now the city is parroting their argument to delay action on its downtown bike plan. Google Street View

Baltimore Invents an Excuse to Avoid Building Its Downtown Bike Network

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 16, 2018 | 61 Comments

They say it's about fire safety. But people are dying in the streets.

The only photo in the city of Chicago's online section about Bike Safety & Education is this image of a cyclist helping another cyclist fit her helmet. Photo: City of Chicago

How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2018 | 212 Comments

It's not a coincidence that bicycling remains dangerous in our helmet-obsessed safety culture.

Study: Cyclists Don’t Break Traffic Laws Any More Than Drivers Do

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 3, 2018 | 143 Comments

New data defies some of the common stereotypes about what puts cyclists in danger.

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