Tag: helmet laws
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Thoughts on SPD bike enforcement: Focus on safety (also, King 5 gets bike laws wrong)
King 5 has been pressing Seattle PD on the issue of enforcing traffic laws on people who bike and has a report out this morning saying that recent SPD bike law efforts are switching from giving out warnings to giving out tickets. We here at Seattle Bike Blog are totally in favor of reasonable and…
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How Pronto plans to make bike share work even with Seattle’s helmet law
King County has a very rare all-ages helmet law, which will certainly complicate the launch and daily operations of Pronto Cycle Share in September. But fueled by a grant from Seattle Children’s, they are forging ahead with an ambitious and novel plan to make it work using a streamlined and simple helmet checkout and return…
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Feds no longer back 1989 Seattle helmet effectiveness study – City should modify its helmet law before bike share launches
After years of conflicting studies have thrown its results into question, both the Center for Disease Control and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will no longer promote the conclusion that bicycle helmets reduce head injury rates by 85 percent in light of meta-analyses of similar studies that found lower and inconclusive results. The often-cited…
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Milton repeals helmet law + How bike share and helmet laws might coexist
There are a handful of topics that online forums seem completely incapable of discussing rationally. Gun control, white male privilege and George Lucas are examples. In the biking world, the most irrational topic of conversation is probably helmets—specifically, all-ages mandatory helmet laws. So when the City of Milton (east of Tacoma, south of Federal Way)…
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With bike share on the horizon, it’s time to rethink King County’s adult helmet law
With Portland officially passing funding for a bike sharing system, Seattle can no longer pretend bike sharing is something that only happens in other parts of the country and the world. Bike sharing is proven, effective and safe — so safe that Barcelona estimates their city’s bike share program saves 12 lives every year. And…
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Seattle University to launch bike share program, King County prepping system of its own
Seattle University students, faculty and staff may soon be able to participate in a school bike share system, according to The Spectator. The Seattle University Bike Share (SUBS) does not yet have a launch date, but the Associated Students of Seattle University (ASSU) released a resolution to build and fund the program. The Bike Share…
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