Group works to make bicyclists safer
The Bellingham Herald reports on a program called vehicular cycling. The Washington State Senate is also working on a bill to require information about cycling in the driver’s manual and another program on the coast is requiring driver’s ed classes to integrate cycling and pedestrian rights in its curriculum. Sounds like lots of folks working on the issue. That’s good, but we haven’t begun to hit saturation yet.–Corrie
Scott Dorough leaned closer to make sure I heard what he had to say.
“Vehicular cycling,” he said, over the din of people talking and eating pizza.
At first, the term sounded a bit strange to me, then Dorough made the meaning clear.
“Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles,” he explained.
That’s the approach Dorough and other local bicycle instructors use when they teach adults how to ride safely on busy streets and open roads.
They teach through EverybodyBike, part of the Whatcom Smart Trips program run by the Whatcom Council of Governments.