Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Hell yeah we're riding tonight! Critical Manners Ride
Why? Because it is the 2nd Friday of the month!
Here is the drill.
This is not a training ride. This is a City ride.
All parties are welcome to join and help bring common courtesy back to the streets. For those who need a refresher on what Critical Manners is, here is the deal:
Here is the drill.
This is not a training ride. This is a City ride.
All parties are welcome to join and help bring common courtesy back to the streets. For those who need a refresher on what Critical Manners is, here is the deal:
- The ride will respect and abide by the city’s traffic laws.
- Rides will be on the slow side to ensure no one is dropped and that the Mass stays a mass
- The Mass will only take up one lane, two when necessary for safety.
- The ride will stop at red lights and stop signs. If a light turns red mid-mass, the riders who made the light should safely pull over to wait for those who were caught by the light.
- Riders are asked to signal turns, call out danger, and communicate their intentions to other riders.
- All riders are required to wear helmets
The goal of these rides is to be a visible and positive example of the
cooperation that can exist between cars and bicycles when people respect
the laws and each other. So join the Mass and help make Fort Wayne a
better place for bicycles.
Rally at 6:15 at Lawton Park.
Ride at 6:30.
Comfortable Pace, no one is dropped.
3RVS sponsored ride so helmets are required.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
3 foot law passed!
It is official! The Common Council of the City of Fort Wayne
voted unanimously to approve G-11-08-12, an ordinance amending Title 7,
Chapters 70, 71, 72, and 74 of the City of Fort Wayne Code of Laws. In short this ordinance codifies a number of
traffic laws with regard to transportation.
While there is a few big changes
like: making it legal to ride your bike on a sidewalk as long as you yield to
pedestrians many of us in the cycling community are excited about the section
regarding passing a cyclist.
SECTION 4. That Chapter 71, Title
7 of the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana Code of ordinances be amended as follows
to add:
§ 71.06 OPERATION
OF VEHICLES IN ROADWAYS WHERE BICYCLES
ARE PRESENT
(D) PASSING OF BICYCLES
The operator of a motor vehicle
passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction on a highway, street, or
road shall leave a safe distance, but not less than three (3) feet, when
passing the bicycle, and shall maintain that distance until safely past the overtaken
bicycle.
We in the advocacy community have
been lobbying the Indiana State Legislature for years to create a Vulnerable Road Users Law. They have not. This last year the bill was not given a vote
in the Committee.
I would
like to thank Mayor Thomas Henry, Community Development Department, the
Ordinance Committee and the Fort Wayne Common Council for helping to create an environment within our great community that is friendly toward Bicycles.
This is BIG.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
The Updated bike ordinance in its entirety
http://www.cityoffortwayne.org/customapps/council/files/2012-09-04/G_12_08_11_A.pdf
City Council will make its final vote on the Ordinance This Tuesday. For those who don't know about this, it passed out of Committee unanimously on 9/4/2012.
City Council will make its final vote on the Ordinance This Tuesday. For those who don't know about this, it passed out of Committee unanimously on 9/4/2012.
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