There is no doubt that national bike month was a resounding success here in California. The advanced may resulted in major safety campaigns statewide cycle-centric holiday. But the preparation for the last week of bike to work day of the month is crowning performance, as StreetsBlog reports, the unprecedented growth in California bicycle infrastructure preceded a day of events. This is a great start and bike safety advocates expected to not stop there. The following are five great ideas to improve bicycle safety and infrastructure ahead. Let your ideas in the comments section or on our Facebook page.

The California State legislature is months, passed a law that would require to reduce vehicles, to leave a three foot fast lane in the vicinity of cyclists, on streets and highways and their speed to 15 miles per hour. If the Bill passes, advocates, who say that vehicles could cause fast speeds too close pass to destabilize the cyclists and even a bicycle accident are a great victory for bicycle safety. Although driver awareness should take additional measures to increase the bicycle and pedestrian, a big step in the right direction is the 3-foot passing Bill.

Los Angeles Councilmember Bill Rosendahl is often as a supporter of the law said 3 feet past, last year, that the law "overdue" here in California called. But the idea has broad support from the city of Los Angeles, California Bicycle Coalition, welcomed and State Senator Alan Lowenthal, introduced the Bill this year.

Earlier this year, the San Francisco municipal transportation agency began implementing "Bike boxes" to improve bicycle safety in market Street, which calls the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition of the busiest bike Street West of the Mississippi. Leave the Green bike boxes for cyclists on motor vehicles at the traffic lights are designed, writes "the visibility and positioning of cyclists at junctions with traffic lights and bicycles to prioritize they navigate by crosses," the SFMTA improve.

The bike boxes create success of cycling routes to the city's busiest streets primarily on security. Bike boxes have plenty of bike groups and officials of the town, including the SFBC have been approved and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. The fields have been so successful that the SFMTA crashed last week in the entire market street bike to work day before installing.

Masonic Avenue bicycle accidents have much press recently because of an uptick in bicycle and pedestrian deaths and injured. In less than a year, 2 people were killed by drunken drivers and many others were injured. Earlier this month, 61-year-old James Hudson of San Francisco was killed, and Freemason is the location of the two most important car accidents Avenue since this accident,.

Part of the problem is the width of the Masonic Avenue, which feel driver of more than 25 miles per hour speed limit. That's why a "who's who" of San Francisco safety advocates and legislators signed off the $20 million for Boulevard plan for improving the pedestrian and bicycle safety to Masonic Avenue. Last Friday, the San Francisco MTA met to discuss the proposal and other methods to improve safety on Freemasons and throughout the city.

This is perhaps the most controversial bicycle safety proposal, there a large group of the bicycle community turns it against. "Helmets not required for riding or hiking - both activities with similar or greater are risk of injury than those of cycling," Joe Linton wrote of L.A., bicycle of Advisory Committee, added that helmet laws lead to fewer cyclists.

But after his serious bike accident last year, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a nationwide bicycle helmet law in California. Despite the unpopularity of this law in much of the bicycle community bicycle would improve safety, considerably, because the risk of serious head injuries by 85 percent wear a helmet reduces. But while some States require California and Oregon, helmet mandatory for children, no State has a cover helmet request implements. California impose such a law would strengthen as solid bike security state.

She probably already knew that distracted driving is not only a problem for drivers. Legislators in New York City have proposed distracted walking even a law to combat. But here in California, State Senator Joe Simitian has aim at distracted cycling proposes an increase in the fines with a vehicle drive right distracted. "Healthy common sense tells us that there is no safe habit, in the light of the risks to which cyclists have to fight," said Simitian StreetsBlog last year.

But like helmet requirements, which distracted cycling proposal is unpopular among many cyclists who claim that drivers for the majority of the bike car accidents, despite often are responsible of the hook. To a certain extent they are right: distracted driving has been proven to be dangerous for motorists than other demographic traffic. But their phones when zooming benefit roads and highways each if drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike agree, put.

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