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Bike lights become fashionable in Portland--dramatically increasing safety

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 2:25am
Bike Portland reports on a bus driver who wants to throw the whole bicycling community a party because of the huge increase in the number of people using good lights when the bicycle:

If I had my way right now I would throw a party for all the bicyclists in Portland. There would be horns and streamers and one giant bicycle shaped cake.

Why? Why would I, a bus driver be honoring the bicyclist of Portland? Have I gone crazy? Am I mad? Has some unknown agent from another planet that is hunted by the FBI possessed me? Nope.

“What is super fantastic is the almost arms race like growth in the quality of the lights.”

I am happy, now let me tell you why.

In the last 6 months I have seen a huge jump in percentage of bicyclist who are using lights at night. No joke, starting about midway through last summer the number of glowing bikes has gone way up. That has prevented many of what I like to call “OH MY GOD!!” moments. I’ve asked around for other drivers to pay attention and they also confirm my observation, a few have even given me head counts.

This is awesome.
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