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Category: Behavior

  • Eoin O’Carroll altercation, 09-2011

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    http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/09/15/helmet-camera-captures-carbike-confrontation-in-boston/ http://www.universalhub.com/2011/massholes-dont-acknowledging-somebody-else-has-rig http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/10/03/boston-driver-says-cyclist-went-too-far-in-videotaped-confrontation/

  • About the Chris Weigl crash —

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    Comments below are by Kirby Beck, who worked on the Weigl crash as an expert consultant. Beck is a retired police officer, avid recreational cyclist, co-founder and trainer #02 of the International Police Mountain Bike Association. I phoned Beck on January 7, 2025 to assure that I have permission to publish his comments. During the…

  • Massachusetts passing-on-right law

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    We’ll start with a video where a motorist abruptly changed lanes to pass a vehicle on the right at speed and had to swerve left to avoid striking a bicyclist who had been concealed by the vehicle being passed. Here is a shortened version. The full video is on YouTube. I’ve also seen a YouTube…

  • Boston Bike Party

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    I rode a Boston Bike Party ride. The Boston Bike Party is more or less a friendlier version of Critical Mass — not in-your-face confrontational, but still they held a parade without a permit, corking intersections, riding through neighborhoods with bike trailers pulling sound systems playing rock music at deafening volume — three different ones…

  • Massachusetts traffic law, the nation’s most disorganized and confusing

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    As my comments on Massachusetts traffic law may be of interest to people outside Massachusetts, I have posted the comment in a different blog.

  • Fatal crash of November 9, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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    This morning’s fatal crash was reported by State Police as another in the string of tragic right-hook collisions which have become the largest cause of bicyclist fatalities in the Boston area. Once again, a bicyclist was crushed by a large truck which turned right.[ Update: the cyclist was Meng Jin, a male graduate student at…

  • What’s wrong with this picture?

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    As hunting seasons are introduced to control the deer population in Boston suburbs and nearby parklands, I’m reminded of an article which appeared in the alumni magazine of Middlebury College, one of my alma maters. The article told how Middlebury College sanctions students’ involvement in hunting, and described the usual controversy over hunting which occurs…

  • A letter to a neighbor

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    March 8, 2015 To my neighbor at [address]: Aside from the usual traffic interactions, I had two unusual ones this morning while riding my bicycle to and from church. On my way home, I passed some neighbors who were walking their dogs on Villa Street. One of the dogs tugged at the leash and barked…

  • Honked at again

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    I was bicycling home from church on a Sunday afternoon recently. The church I attend, First Parish in Waltham, has a parking lot on either side, but also the public school parking lot across the street doesn’t get much use on a Sunday, and handles any overflow. As I rode home, I headed south on…

  • Separate but equal

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    3:15 PM, Thursday, August 27, 2014: I’m riding home on the stretch of Western Avenue in Brighton a hundred yards or so short of Market Street. I’m riding outside the door zone of parked cars. This stretch is narrow enough that the City of Boston hasn’t even seen fit to install its usual door-zone bike…