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4 May 2012, 10:20 am
In fifteen years Toronto has gone from being dubbed the best cycling city in North America to the bike collision capital of Canada. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 4:38 pm
Recently we talked about how in New York City, there’s a discrepancy between the number of cyclist deaths in the city and arrests issued. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
Portland, Oregon has been a bit of a punchline city in recent years, especially due to the popularity of IFC’s quirky TV show Portlandia, in which Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein make fun of the area’s quirky hipster characteristics. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 3:12 pm
The days of free parking on Sundays are numbered. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 10:37 am
GJEL thanks everyone who participated in the contest, and looks forward to partnering with Walk SF for future events! [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 4:37 pm
Celebrities Amanda Bynes and Lisa Lampanelli both made headlines over the past couple days with reports surfacing they’d each been guilty of distracted driving. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 11:46 am
With Tax Day fast approaching, it might pay to take a few deep breaths, squeeze a stress ball, or do whatever else calms your nerves before hopping in a car and heading out on the road. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 3:47 pm
Data shows that in New York City, when a driver kills someone with his car, whether it’s a motorist, pedestrian, or cyclist, 40% of the time no traffic ticket is issued. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 4:50 pm
A handful of Colorado high schools are competing against each other in an effort to see who can have the biggest impact on boosting seat belt usage. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 5:12 pm
It’s hard to find an online forum discussing bike lanes—or even cyclists in general—without inadvertently stumbling across another “us versus them” debate about motorists being irritated with bikers who ignore traffic laws, and cyclists decrying drivers who don’t understand how hard it is to come to a complete stop and regain momentum at every controlled intersection. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 2:25 pm
The San Francisco based company Bike Works has issued a voluntary recall of 4,100 bikes for “safety reasons” citing several customer reports that pedals had either cracked or broken. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 3:13 pm
Researchers from State Farm and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia studied injury data from over 55,000 teenage drivers and their passengers who had been in car accidents and discovered that 30% of them had received some sort of head injury as a result of the accident. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 2:46 pm
Despite proposing guidelines for in-car technology back in February, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration doesn’t plan to address voice controls until at least 2014. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 12:21 pm
Walk to Work Day is this Friday, and GJEL is excited to partner with Walk SF to encourage people all across the city to conduct their daily commute on foot. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 4:31 pm
Even if you’re trying to be a responsible driver and refrain from using your phone while driving, there’s still a chance you’ll cause conflict before ever pulling out of a parking spot. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 2:49 pm
A new study released earlier this week by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows that teenage girls are twice as likely as teen boys to use cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 11:19 am
As we mentioned a few weeks back, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is pushing for legislation that would force states to require interlock devices for all drunk driving convictions or risk losing out on federal highway funds. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 3:31 pm
A new San Francisco startup offering a subscription based scooter sharing service is running into difficulties with California’s licensing laws. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:58 am
After striking a pedestrian earlier this year, San Rafael police determined that 90-year-old Monsie Wagner was not at fault in the incident. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 11:53 am
On July 15, a a San Francisco cyclist ran a red light at Mission Street and The Embarcadero and struck a 68-year old tourist from Washington, D.C. named Dionette Cherney. [read post]
