Green Options » bicycle awareness http://greenoptions.com/tag/bicycle-awareness Posts tagged 'bicycle awareness' Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:00:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Two Activists and One Senator Could Equal Results for NYC Cyclists http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/16/no-impact-mans-meeting-with-senator-klein/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/16/no-impact-mans-meeting-with-senator-klein/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:00:52 +0000 Becky Striepe http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/16/no-impact-mans-meeting-with-senator-klein/ photo by Flickr user paulkist
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A few folks asked for a followup to the post about Colin Beavan’s run-in with Senator Jeff Klein. After Beavan posted about the Senator almost mowing him down with his black Mercedes, people around the country called Senator Klein’s office to express their outrage. All of that action made a big difference! The Senator set up a meeting with Beavan, and the two men met yesterday along with Paul Steely White from Transportation Alternatives.

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/16/no-impact-mans-meeting-with-senator-klein/feed/ Senator Jeff Klein to Cyclist: Get out of my F***ing Way http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/18/senator-jeff-klein-to-cyclist-get-out-of-my-fing-way/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/18/senator-jeff-klein-to-cyclist-get-out-of-my-fing-way/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:47:57 +0000 Becky Striepe http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/18/senator-jeff-klein-to-cyclist-get-out-of-my-fing-way/
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The letter below reminds me a lot of something that happened to me.  I was riding down 10th Street in the right hand lane.  Rather than pass me in the empty left lane, a giant SUV swerved towards me, nearly running me into a ditch.  At the next light, the driver rolled down the window to shriek that I should be riding on the sidewalk (untrue/illegal), and he knew because he was a cyclist, too!  I guess he was a cyclist with no belief in Karma?

Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, had a run-in today with a NY state senator today.  Or, I guess, you could call it a near run in?  Here’s his open letter to Senator Jeff Klein:

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