Apr 24, 2017 | Bike Accident
I recently spoke with members of the New York Magistrates Association at a meeting in Corning. The members are town and village judges and justices who often don’t have the legal training of lawyers, so they welcome presentations by top lawyers. I talked to...
Feb 28, 2017 | Bike Accident
There was a great story recently in the Rochester City Newspaper about a great life-changing opportunity for kids in Rochester. Dream Bikes, a nonprofit bike shop that opened earlier this year on University Avenue in Rochester, provides jobs to teens from lower-income...
Feb 16, 2017 | Bike Accident
Jonathan Maus, the publisher and editor-in-chief of BikePortland.org, had a great recent post about a New York Court of Appeals ruling about city street design and accident liability that could be great news for bicyclists all over the country. Jonathan writes:...
Jan 27, 2017 | Bike Accident
There is some very big news in the U.S. cycling world today. Bike Law, a national network of bicycle crash attorneys, is now the exclusive legal partner of USA Cycling, the governing body for competitive cycling in the United States. This partnership...
Jan 5, 2017 | Bike Accident
I recently received a question from an Elmira College student, who raised a very interesting – and often misunderstood – issue: bicycling while intoxicated. Can riders be arrested like motorists? Here is the question, edited for length: I recently...
Dec 7, 2016 | Bike Accident
It’s not every day that you see your name (and worse yet, your photo in lycra!) on the Huffington Post but I recently had that pleasure/horror in a very nice article about the CycleAdirondacks bicycle riding event held this past August. As many of my readers...
Sep 28, 2016 | Bike Accident
An actress who struck and killed a bicyclist in 2014 while distracted by her cell phone has been barred from driving in New York state – not by police or a criminal court judge, but by an administrative law judge. Many times I have had the unfortunate experience...
Sep 27, 2016 | Bike Accident
The Cycling In The South Bay blog had a great post recently that captures very well the agony/frustration/despair that often afflicts my clients who have suffered life-changing bike crashes. The blog post looks at a January 2015 collision Deb Banks suffered...
Sep 9, 2016 | Bike Accident
Jeff Miller, the former Executive Director of the national Alliance for Biking and Walking, and a recent consultant to the New York Bicycling Coalition (I am NYBC Board President), has come up with a cool business idea in Washington, D.C.: he runs bicycle tours...
Jul 25, 2016 | Bike Accident
The Journal News, a downstate newspaper that serves Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties, recently featured a story about bicycling accidents and deaths downstate, written by David McKay Wilson, a reporter, bicycling advocate and former board member for the...
Apr 28, 2016 | Bike Accident
The next time you’re in a big city with a bike-sharing program, and you’re worried about riding a shared bike on unfamiliar busy streets, remember a new study out that reports that bike sharing, which has seen rapid growth in the last 10 years, has...
Apr 4, 2016 | Bike Accident
There is nothing worse than having your beloved bicycle stolen. If it is stolen, you want to do everything in your power to get it back. Have you registered your bike? If you haven’t already done it, go to Rejjee’s website or its mobile app and discover...
Mar 28, 2016 | Bike Accident
Twin Tiers bicyclists who have been seeking a safe bicycle route from downtown Elmira to the shopping areas in Big Flats can learn more and speak out starting Tuesday at one of two community meetings on a proposed bicycle path’s three routes. Many people say...
Feb 29, 2016 | Bike Accident
As President of the New York Bicycling Coalition, I am urging New York State residents to get involved to help save the lives of bicyclists by urging their state legislators to pass a three-foot safe passing law. The unenforceable law on the books now in New...
Feb 17, 2016 | Bike Accident
It’s time for action. When I was elected president of the board recently of the New York Bicycling Coalition (NYBC), a group that advocates for a safer New York State for bicyclists, I decided improving New York’s safe passing law would be at the top of my...
Feb 5, 2016 | Bike Accident
If you could change just a few words in an existing law to make it safer for every person in NY to ride their bikes, wouldn’t you do it? If the change in the law wouldn’t cost a penny but would save millions of dollars a year, wouldn’t you do it? Of...
Jan 29, 2016 | Bike Accident
I am very excited to be the new president of the New York Bicycling Coalition, a statewide bike advocacy group. I have an aggressive agenda for the next year or two to grow the organization – we currently have 700 members – and make our voice...
Dec 17, 2015 | Bike Accident
The League of American Bicyclists has released its Fall list of Bicycle Friendly Businesses across the United States. These are businesses that encourage employees to bicycle to work, and perhaps even offer incentives to ride to work. These businesses sometimes...
Nov 16, 2015 | Bike Accident
Attorney Jim Reed, managing partner of the Ziff Law Firm, was recently elected president of the board of the New York Bicycling Coalition (NYBC), a group that advocates for a safer New York state for bicyclists. Jim is passionate about bicycling and will help NYBC...
Oct 8, 2015 | Bike Accident
Some Ithaca residents are fighting a great new bike boulevard on well-traveled North Cayuga Street, despite mostly public support for the creation of the bike lane during the approval process in Common Council, according to a story this week in the Ithaca Journal. The...
