Michael J. Swanson interviews top trial lawyer, Claude Wyle, on bicycle safety.
Swanson: We’ve be talking about bicycle safety. What would you do to encourage more bicycling?
Wyle: I don’t think that we’re going to get more cyclists commuting and using bicycles as a means of transportation unless we make it safer. Safety has to be the invitation to do more cycling, because if you think it’s dangerous then you might as well take a car.
One of our goals is one less car. We are very strongly in favor of the environment and we like to reduce traffic…
A recent study just came out regarding the statistics on bicycle riding and walking city by city and state by state in the U.S.
Living in the usually sunny (not today) San Francisco Bay Area I cannot imagine what it’s like to bike or walk to work in Alaska–the state ranked with the highest number of bicycle and pedestrian commuters–as that seems cold. But maybe driving in snowy conditions is just too dangerous in Alaska so they make everything very close. I remember one town in Alaska had all of the apartments and the stores and the other businesses all…
One might think that heading out early in the morning is the safer way to travel the busy city streets of San Francisco by bicycle–with less cars on the road–but unfortunately early this morning a 26-year-old bicyclist was hit by a truck.
According to the police the cyclist did not have a light on his bicycle, despite the darkness of the early dawn morning, as he rode south on 5th Street getting hit at 6:28 a.m. by a pickup truck that was turning left at Harrison Street.
Thankfully, the bicyclist survived getting hit by the truck, and suffered non-life-threatening…
Music lovers and San Francisco cyclists alike are thinking about DJ Toph One, who ended up in ICU at San Francisco General after falling from his bike and getting hit by a car in hit-and-run accident at Ocean and Geneva near City College on Sunday night around midnight, January 8th.
Identified as 41-year-old Christopher Evans, the popular DJ remains in the hospital with a broken pelvis requiring surgery. Unfortnately, the hit-and-run assailant is still unknown.
The San Francisco community has already come to his side, arranging benefits to help raise money to help him as follows:
Public Works on January…
I must report that a Mission district bicycle car crash caused serious personal injuries a few nights ago.
A cyclist went out for a ride on Wednesday night, December 21st only to be struck by a car and to suffer personal injuries at about 8:19pm at 17th and Valencia in San Francisco. The injuries were serious enough to necessitate a visit to the hospital.
Fortunately, the cyclist was conscious and talking as police blocked 17th Street to traffic to allow emergency crews to respond. According to the police a four-door Toyota sedan with front-end damage was stopped near the scene…
