Death by Harassment
Another bicyclist has tragically and needlessly died in the Boston area. Not because bicycling is dangerous, but because harassment by motorists is — when...
Category: Enforcement
Boston Bicyclist Injury Report
I’ve finally completed a report analyzing almost 1,800 bicyclist crash incidents reported by Boston Police between 2009 and 2012. The City of Boston produ...
Lessons Not Learned
[Note: This post was originally written in 2013 but never completed until now.] I first came across the tragic story of Alice Swanson when reading this letter t...
Lessons from Tragedies
Peter Furth is spreading the misinformation (as has Pete Stidman before him) that I prevented the installation of bike lanes in Boston. This is absolutely not t...
Still a Need to Train Police Officers
An amazing story from New York City: bicyclist Christina Thede passes a double-parked car, is nearly doored by its driver, complains to him, and goes on her wa...