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Jan Blatchford
(505) 243-7433
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Bicycle Rules of the Road
Observe Bicycle Safety
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Call 243-RIDE (7433) for bicycle safety information.
Bicycling Safety
- Before riding out of a driveway into the street, stop and look left, right, and left again for traffic.
- Ride on the right-hand side of the street in the same direction as the flow of automobile traffic.
- When riding with others, ride single file.
- Stop at all stop signs and look left, right, and left again for traffic.
- Walk your bike across busy roads and intersections.
- Use hand signals to show others that you are stopping or making a turn.
Try Biking
- 50% of U.S. urban space is devoted to roadways.
- Auto emissions are the top cause of air pollution.
- Motor vehicles are responsible for 55% of cancer contaminants-greater than any other source.
- 54% of Americans live less than 5 miles from their jobs, a distance easily traveled by bicycle.
- 20% of our (Americans) disposable income is spent on transportation.
- Drivers work one day/week just to pay for driving expenses (car, insurance, gas, parking, etc.).
- A ten-mile commute by bicycle requires 350 calories of energy. The same trip in an average American car requires 18,600 calories of energy (about half a gallon of gasoline): 9,200 calories by bus, 8,850 by rail, and 1,000 by foot.
- Motorists could save an average of 150 gallons of gasoline each year if they rode to public transit facilities instead of driving.
- 12 bicycles can be parked in the space of one car.
- Number of lanes a bridge or city street must have to accommodate 40,000 autos per hour: 12
- Number of lanes necessary to accommodate 40,000 bicycles per hour: 1
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