bicycling

Travel plans: Will Bypass bypass peds, bikes, and transit?
Published on Oct 31st, 2011
32 comments The proposed Western Bypass, the resurrected $235 million road project that will cut a 6.2-mile swath from Forest Lakes South to the North Grounds of the University of Virginia through neighborhoods...
Sharrow
Published on Oct 6th, 2011
26 comments I'm supposed to know what a sharrow is. It's a bike safety pictogram, but my first response was to wish the pictogram user had employed words since hieroglyphics don’t speak to me. So what does this...
Fresh helmets won't hurt you
Published on Jun 16th, 2011
5 comments The points raised by Mr. Ballance and the Hook in the May 24 article on bike helmets ["More risk? Safety engineer slams proposed helmet law"] are not valid arguments against helmet usage. There is no...
Ghost bike gone
Published on Aug 27th, 2010
10 comments 5:40pm, Thursday, August 26. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The ghost bike that stood as silent witness to the April 19 accidental death of bicyclist, UVA graduate student, religious philosopher, and...
Killed cyclist was doctor, surprise-minded father
Published on Aug 27th, 2009
2 comments The bicyclist struck and killed Tuesday was a 49-year-old Virginia Beach man riding from Wintergreen Resort to surprise his son, a freshman at James Madison University, the Harrisonburg newspaper...
Unidentified cyclist killed in H'burg
Published on Aug 26th, 2009
0 comments Police need your help to identify him.