As reported here and here, there’s a community education/action event taking place tomorrow morning, August 4th, from 7-9a.m. at what some consider to be a dangerous intersection for bikers, auto drivers, and peds alike: the intersection at the bottom of the Broadway Bridge at 9th and NW Lovejoy. It seems that the need for this event was sparked not by a car-bike collision but a bike-pedestrian collision, which is just a reminder that everybody, no matter their mode of transport, should be alert to their surroundings at all times.

As a biker who deals with this intersection every morning on my commute to work, I’m relieved to say that I’ve only seen good interaction during the rush hour; car drivers have been pretty aware of the bikers in the lane (not that they couldn’t be, there’s so many in the morning), and the bikers are pretty good about staying in the bike lane and obeying the traffic signals, though I heard a report of a biker recently blowing through the bike signal at the top of the ramp the other day and being lucky there were no cars coming at the time. So if you see some extra bodies milling around tomorrow morning, be sure to give them a shout out and try not to run anybody over.

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1. Breaking: another bike accident
2. Share the Road, Spare the Rhetoric
3. Bikes and Cars: The Saga Continues
4. Notes from the Road
5. Bicyclists + Cell Phones = Bad Things Happening