Rick C Johnson
2006-03-31
Odds of Dying Overall - 1:1
Might as well be doing something you enjoy in the mean time...
Rick
Matthew Rider wrote:
It doesn't look like they accounted for time spent doing any
particular activity. Deaths per thousands hours riding as compared to
deaths per thousand hours in a vehicle would be a fair comparison. The
odds my mom dies on a bike are incredibly slim as she doesn't ride, the
odds I die on a bike are likely significantly higher then the figure
below as I spend more time on my bike then the average person.
On 3/30/06, Eric Kytola <Eric.Kytola@kingrs.com>
wrote:
from:
odds of dying in a car = 1:17,625
odds of dying on a bike = 1:375,412
odds look better on a bike. regardless of bike lanes or not.
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org
[mailto:
obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of Edward Kendrick Sr
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:06 AM
To:
obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Bicycling in Hillsboro
We need bike lanes on every kind of road in the US, no
exceptions.
I was almost killed by a car last year. That changed my
perspective on life.
We are facing an obesity crisis and global warming. Our
infrastructure, nationwide, is crumbling. Our economy is very unkind
to middle America. Given these problems, bike lanes are among the
solutions that our elected people need to deliver. That's what they
get paid to do.
(Last month, I was in a benefit race for a Junior rider, who
was killed, while training in a group of ~8 riders. It could have been
any one of us.)
Evan MacKenzie <
evanm@ci.hillsboro.or.us> wrote:
It has come to my attention
that a number of Hillsboro City Councilors are not in favor of bicycle
lanes.
My first question then is:
What is the ORS that refers
to bicycles having the right to use the full lane when no bicycle lane
is present?
My second question:
In lieu of a bicycle lane,
should I start riding my bike down the middle of the right lane on
Cornell Road at 8 mph? Should I ask the Street Committee and the City
Council why a street designated as a collector
, without any
traffic calming devices (NE Grant Street) is designated a part of the City
's Bicycle Way Network? This is not the only example of such a conflict, by the
way.
My third
question:
Are there any people out
there who would like to express their views to our Mayor, the City
Council, and/or the Hillsboro Street Committee?
Hillsboro
Street Committee
Meeting
Dates
4th Tuesdays of the
month at 6PM in rooms 105/115.
Civic Center, Conference Room C113C
150 E. Main St.
Hillsboro City Council
First and third Tuesdays at 7:00 pm
Hillsboro Civic Center Auditorium
150 E Main St.
Work Session follows regular meeting in Room 113B
(Third Tuesday only)
As some of you who may have read any of my previous posts may know, I
am a public employee for a certain municipality in the Portland metro
area. Given my status, I have to be very careful
when I
pursue what might be construed as "political
activities
" while on the job (it
's 7:55 am right
now). So please
consider this a heads-up. Those of you
out there in the
cycling community, if
you feel the need to offer some
constructive criticism of this viewpoint, it
's up to you.
Please feel free to forward
this message to people in the cycling community, but PLEASE
DO
NOT
forward this email
directly to anyone at the City of Hillsboro.
Keep the rubber side down,
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----------(_)/ (_)______Get on your bikes and ride!
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