A Bicycle Safety Parable
I. The Artful Advocates and the Fair City Once upon a time in the land of the Massachusett, the streets of the Fair City of Cambridge were dominated by great an...
Category: Law
Bicycling is Dangerous–When Drunk Or Negligent Drivers are About
On June 28 2016, a year after causing the death of 18-year-old bicyclist Fritz Philogene (pictured below) in Dorchester, Mass., Gregory McCoy plead guilty and w...
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...
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...
AAA Bike Safety
The Sept/Oct issue of American Bicyclist has a feature article, “Bringing Bicycling into the Mix: The New AAA” (not yet on the LAB website) consisti...
The Phoenix Gets it Wrong
Every time that a newspaper or magazine runs an article on laws and advice about safe bicycling, I cringe. I know that there is a good chance that they will get...
Can we at least stop the wrong way riders?
This morning on my way to work on Centre Street, a wrong-way rider is coming right at me in the 4 feet between stopped traffic and parked cars. I slow and wave ...