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Author Archives: peterwilborn

Annual Ride of Silence ride is May 18th. Hampton Park @ 6:45. Slow, silent ride to celebrate the lives of those killed in cycling collisions. Special focus on Edwin Gardner. Ride to Battery and back. Then, supper at Peter and Cappi’s house and Premiere of Safe Streets Save Lives video PSA campaign. Follow event on [...]

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The response to our Tour of the Blue Ridge / Advocacy Roundtable has been amazing! Of course folks are thrilled: June 22 – 26, 2011. Boone to Asheville.  20 riders (only 12 8 spots left). 60+ mountain miles a day. Advocacy and strategy sessions by night. Great food and drink. Mountain Inns. Led by the [...]

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This month, mybikelaw is morphing into Bikelaw.com.  Same people, same mission, just better name. As part of the launch of the new site, we are producing Bikelaw.com kits.   They will be ready for our Tour of the Blue Ridge / Southeast Bike Advocacy Roundtable (known around here as the TOFBRSEBAR). Look at these beauties. [...]

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We are thrilled to be working with Venture Expeditions.   Started in 2002 by three college friends, Venture has grown from under-equipped dreamers to a non-profit adventure travel leader on a mission to inform and empower people to fight injustice throughout the world. Over the past 7 years, Venture has sent out dozens of teams, [...]

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I’m in Augusta for the funeral of Matt Burke.  Woke up this morning to find this in the Augusta paper.   Vile, pitiful, sadistic.  The paper pretends that it is covering the general “frustration” of drivers stemming from an “accident.”  Let’s get the facts right: Matt Burke and other cyclists were run down in broad [...]

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mybikelaw is honored to represent the Burke family.  It has been a tragic ordeal for them, but we are pleased to report that the driver (after four months of investigation) has been charged with Reckless Homicide, a South Carolina crime that carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.  Much more to come,  and [...]

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The DA’s decision in Colorado not to charge driver with felony hit-and-run is total BS. This is the nonsense that we constantly face. Unreal. Sad. Pathetic.

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Anti-urban sentiment harmful Can urban life be improved by suburbanizing it? An editor of The Post and Courier seems to think so. The paper’s lead editorial on Sept. 15 titled “Unrestricted dwellings unwise” implied “reasonable standards that make a city livable” include minimum parking requirements, zoning and limits on density. For too long the City [...]

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I am often asked for the text of the South Carolina bicycle laws.  I have been reluctant to post them on my site, because sometimes they cause more confusion than clarity.  But, anyway, here they are (current as of 8/10).  Please call me with questions: SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS SECTION 56-5-3410. Applicability of article [...]

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RIDE IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE & VISION OF EDWIN GARDNER A Short Bicycle Ride Around Downtown Charleston Saturday, July 31st @ 9 a.m. Start/Finish Cannon Park (Calhoun Street between Ashley and Rutledge) We invite folks of all ages, and not just those in cycling groups, to ride together to celebrate Edwin and his vision [...]

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