Bicycles, Rolling Stops and the Idaho Stop (VIDEO)
RELATED: • The “Idaho Stop” 30 Years Later • Ethics, exhaust, and other reasons to break traffic laws while bicycling
A Busy Tuesday! Cyclist Is Not Guilty. Rumble Strip Fix Test Will Be Completed by 2nd Week of June
Wow, talk about a busy Tuesday. Joe Jackson went on trial for cycling on Snuff Mill Road in Hockessin. And cyclists spoke with DelDOT management about the improperly installed rumble strips along Route 9 and Route 24 in eastern Sussex County. Have you ever been ticketed…just for riding your bike? Joe Jackson has. Joe…
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Delaware Cyclist Ticketed for Riding His Bike Is Arraigned
UPDATE – Wednesday, January 29: Joe was “arraigned”. His trial is scheduled for May 27th at 1:30pm. UPDATE #2 – Tuesday, May 27: Joe is found not guilty! UPDATE #3 – October 5, 2017: Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act – which rewrites the Rule of the Road misinterpreted in Joe’s case – signed by Governor Carney UPDATE…
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The “Idaho Stop” 30 Years Later
Nobody understands momentum better than cyclists. That’s why, even 30 years after Idaho passed it’s “Idaho Stop” law, this issue has never gone away. by Ken Mcleod Published at League of American Bicyclists August 22, 2013 Idaho passed its law allowing bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs…
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First Motorist Sentenced Under Delaware’s Vulnerable User Law
There are a lot of things we do while bicycling to avoid accidents and injuries. For safety’s sake, we should be doing these kinds of things: Safe behaviors: for example, stopping at stop signs and red lights; riding defensively, watching what motorists around us are doing that could create problems for us; riding single file…
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If Kant Were a New York Cyclist
By Randy Cohen Published in the New York Times August 4, 2012 The rule-breaking cyclist that people decry: that’s me. I routinely run red lights, and so do you. I flout the law when I’m on my bike; you do it when you are on foot, at least if you are like most New Yorkers.…
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Crash Liability – the Dutch View
In a recent article, the Dutch cycling blogger David Hembrow brings the Dutch view of crash liability into better focus. The Dutch law that governs crash liability is an “…obscure part of the law which most people take little interest in. People don’t talk about this on a regular basis, any more than they do about…
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Is “Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You” An Effective Legal Defense in Delaware?
By Amy Wilburn – Around 10 years ago, I was biking on Bancroft Parkway, keeping a safe following distance. The pickup truck ahead of me threw his vehicle in reverse and backed up a number of parking spaces. Because I stopped when he stopped, there was a curb to my left and parked cars to…
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Stop SMIDSY
The “Cyclists’ Touring Club” (CTC) – which bills itself as the United Kingdom’s “National Cyclists’ Organization” – has not been the most effective promoter of cycling. There’s a lot less cycling in Britain now than there used to be and the CTC has been notably ineffective at even slowing – let alone reversing – that…
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