Today’s bicycle news

October 22nd, 2009 at 12:57pm Wally Haas

A young woman was killed in Chicago when she was run over by a delivery truck. Read the Tribune story HERE.

There’s a good discussion about bicycle safety in the comments under the story. Although Chicago is a tougher city to bike, I think some of the things Trib readers write apply to Rockford cyclists as well.

I can relate to the cyclist who was killed. When I was a pre-teen growing up in Chicago, I once fell off my bike and saw it slide under a truck. The truck crushed the bike, but I was OK except for some scrapes and bruises. Reading about the latest Chicago incident made me realize how lucky I was way back then.

In good bike news, there’s this Associated Press story out of Fort Wayne, Ind.

FORT WAYNE, Ind.  (AP) — Fort Wayne’s mayor wants to make bicycling more convenient by adding more than 100 bike racks around the city’s downtown.

Mayor Tom Henry says public comment has show downtown as the top destination people want to reach with their bikes. He says about $19,000 will be spent on the 117 bike racks, which will be installed at numerous spots downtown, along with Headwaters Park and the Parkview Field baseball stadium.

Officials also are working on plans to designate bike travel lanes on several city streets. That work is expected to begin next spring.

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