“We go out and count how many cyclists are going through intersections,” Gerner said. The group collects data and does an annual bike count to give to the city so they can better come up with policies to help improve bike safety, Gerner said. works to try and make the area less dangerous, and it has seen some transportation improvements with Vision Zero, a Tempe traffic safety policy trying to reduce the number of fatal crashes to zero, Gerner said. “I don’t think there is much that people who bike can do to be safe when the place they are biking in is already dangerous,” Perry said. Perry believes some sort of physical separation between the bike and car lanes would be ideal.
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"I’ve had many close calls involving drivers not paying attention, cutting me off, things like that as I’m riding in the bike lane on University Drive.” “I don’t think it’s safe," Perry said in a text message. TBAG solutionsįrankie Perry, a freshman studying urban planning, bikes on the Tempe campus and in the surrounding Tempe area. "Your life is not worth $10 on a bike light,” Wang said.
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Wang said the University could do a better job at offering resources to student cyclists like distributing free bike lights.
"The government views them more as a car after they are on a bike, so they have to follow pretty much all of the same rules as a car, with a few exceptions here and there,” Wang said. "Bicycles need to follow all road signs, traffic signals and rules of the road,” Wolfe said.Ĭyclists are held to the same standards as any other vehicles on the roads, even though it is often misunderstood that they can follow laws for pedestrians, Wolfe said. The University recommends students use bike lanes to avoid interfering with foot traffic, even though cyclists are legally allowed to ride on the sidewalk in Tempe, said Adam Wolfe, an ASU Police Department spokesperson, in an email on Sept. wants the University to make it clear to students that they are not pedestrians anymore once they are riding a bike. has organized rides through the Tempe campus, where they give out free bike lights and flyers with bike safety information, Wang said. "It's actually illegal to bike at night without lights, you have to have at least a white front light and a rear red reflector." “I see a lot of ASU cyclists biking without lights," Wang said. A post shared by Tempe Bicycle Action Group of the most common safety problems that Wang has noticed is students riding without proper equipment on their bicycles.
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