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Yes, MSU/local cyclists feel passionately about cycling and transportation related issues. Here's some links to articles / letter to the editors that they've written that we feel are noteworthy. Write an article or letter to the editor of some paper which got published (or even never saw the light of day), email us & we'll review it & maybe list it here! You should also subscribe to our Yahoo Group email-based listserv to sound off on bike issues, make bike-related announcements etc. Visit our Yahoo Group home to check out previous postings and subscribe.
• Pedestrians should be aware of surroundings , 10/19/07, State News editorial.
"You’ve seen them before. You might be one. You know, the iPod-wearing, cell phone-talking zombies crossing in front of traffic whether it’s their turn or not.These sidetracked pedestrians tend to be lured to the other side of the street just as the little man on the crosswalk signal stops glowing white. They’re also more likely to be the cause of a traffic accident than the bicyclists and walkers who don’t have a phone glued to their right ear and headphones covering the other."
• Crosswalk safety, 10/16/07, State News article, By Jacob Carpenter, good heads-up article about the rules re: crosswalks and how to better survive them.• Free-wheeling Lansing Professionals Put New Spin on Daily Commutes, by Jonathan Ritz, 10/17/2007, Capital Gains
• Bicyclists deserve same respect as other motorists, 9/9/07, State News, by Kristin Bott, Bike Project volunteer extraordinare and zoology graduate student.• Bicycling is important in improving environment , 5/16/07, State News, by Jeremy Van Hof, 2000 MSU graduate.
• Bicyclists deserve equal treatment on the streets, 5/14/07, State News, by Matthew St. Lawrence, philosophy graduate student.
• "Hey
motorists, share the road", by Tim Potter, 5/20/06, LSJ Viewpoint. Original
letter as submitted.
• "Riding
bike helps avoid driving in construction", by Tim Potter, 5/19/06, State
News.
• "Drivers
on campus must respect bikers", by Kristin
Bott, 4/5/06, The State News
• " Bikers'
'Road rules' are unrealistic, false",
by Harold Beer, WKAR faculty member, 11/30/05 in response to "Road
rules Students, officials clarify campus commuting etiquette", 11/28/05,
The State News.
• Lansing
Noise cover story re: "Day without a car" article
was a big disappointment, by Tim Potter, 10/19/05. Link
to original Noise article.
• (Lansing
River) Trail is necessity, letter to the editor (LSJ) by Christina
Riddle, Okemos, local cyclist/ activist, 3/18/05.
The LSJ just doesn't get it (March
8 editorial). The River Trail is one of the only redeeming elements
of mid-Michigan, and Lansing in particular. It's not a frivolous luxury.
The trail is a highlight in a community that has otherwise proved itself
hostile to pedestrians, handicappers, runners, bicyclists and babies in
carriages. How? ...more
• Improving
Parking for Motorists & Rights of Cyclists on our Roadways,
letter to the editor by Tim Potter. Published in the Lansing State Journal,
July 2000. Advocates the revolutionary concept that bicyclists should get
the same rights on our roads that self-powered vessles enjoy on our waterways;
that is, self-powered vessles have right-of-way over powered vessles.