[*BCM*] List of dangerous streets

[David Watson]

MassBike does in fact offer classes on how to ride safely in traffic; more
than 200 people signed up last year.  We're putting together the spring
schedule now, and revamping our curriculum a bit, but the info will be up
soon at http://www.massbike.org/skills/classes.htm.  We also have some tips
online at http://www.massbike.org/skills/traffic.htm.  We've also got a
pamphlet online that looks at the law from both a bicyclist and motorist
perspective: http://www.massbike.org/info/roadhog.pdf.  One of the goals of
the Bicyclist Safety Bill is to make the law even more clear about how cars
should interact with bikes.

-David
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[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org]On Behalf Of
Andrew Toomajian
  Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:31 AM
  To: Boston Critical Mass
  Subject: RE: [*BCM*] List of dangerous streets


  I think it might be more productive to focus on "best" routes rather than
which streets are dangerous and why.  The SF Bike coalition, for example,
makes a map of bike routes through the city avoiding it's major hills.  It
would be a great project to do this for Boston, with the goal of avoiding
areas of especially high traffic, severely pot-holed roads, etc.

  Me and the sweetie were talking about this last night - does anyone offer
classes or guidelines on how to ride safely in traffic?  This might be a
great project for MassBike, and I bet there is grant money for it somewhere.
A lot of it boils down to "when in doubt - take the lane" but I'm sure there
could and would be more to it than that.  The sweetie has done a lot less
city riding than me so she ends up asking me for survival tips a lot.  I bet
a lot of people are in a similar situation and a well promoted class would
help avoid accidents like this one.


  >
  > Maybe Massbike could compile a list of known, dangerous streets for
  > bicyclist to avoid, or at least be aware of. That would be the best help
  > they could give for now. We have a wealth of knowledge here that needs
to
  > be dispersed before another tragedy occurs. I took Massbike's safe
biking
  > course but found their insistence that city biking is safe a little
  > detached from reality. Bicycle safety is not as simple or easy as
  > following a few road rules. Not acknowledging this is very
irresponsible.
  > We don't need to let another person to find out the hard way which
  > streets are unsafe.
  >


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