Road Cycling - Radio DJs Advocate Harming Cyclists

This is a bunch of BS. Click the link to read about what some stations are advocating on the air http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1066555972322380.xml?nohio (http://) They may think it is funny and is a good laugh but if I was to hear this type of talk at a station here in Oklahoma City I would help start a protest at the station. Just a couple of weeks ago a cyclist was killed by a truck here in OKC. The truck's (Ford F-250 I think) passenger side mirror clipped the guy, spun him around and down into the lane where he was run over by another truck that was following the truck that clipped him. It was reported that he was riding as far to the right of the lane that he could. His died on the scene and now there are stations advocating people to do this. This type of talk has to stop or cyclists will die. If you hear this type of talk in your city, don't just talk about what you think of it DO SOMETHING!

Clear Channel recently issued an apology over this. How old is this story? I can't seem to access that page.

I'm trying to get Clear Channel to email me a list of Georgia area stations(radio) so I don't support these stations or hinder the progress of their enemies(so much).

Jacob

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I dont know what is up with the link but itis all under www.nebraskacycling.org titled "stop the shock jocks".

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FCC - From: "Jacob Vickery" <jacobpvickery@yahoo.com> | Subject: Re: clear channel
To: mpowell@fcc.gov
CC: kabernat@fcc.gov, mcopps@fc.gov, kjmweb@fcc.gov, jadelste@fcc.gov )




I think that, as "Congress clearly intends for
pedestrians to have safe, convenient access to the
transportation system," Clear Channel should be
required to have a stated policy of support for
cyclists, a policy which continues beyond the use of
limited monetary grants and public service
announcements. All of the stations should acknowledge
the fault of the ones who transgressed in order to
bring about harmony on the roadways.

Too many cyclists have been involved in accidents and
have even lost their lives for the use of shock jock
techniques to be used against, rather than for, the
public good of the transportation system and the
public well-being.


from nebraskacycling.org/news/news-story.php?id=214


Back in June this whole issues started, a Cleveland
radio show had on-air callers described ways to heckle
cyclists, edge them off the road or strike them with
car doors. This went on for a week. There was an email
campaign against Clear Channel. Clear Channel
officials, agreed to apologize on-air to bicyclists in
the Cleveland area, broadcast public service
announcements about sharing the road and donate
$10,000 for bike advocacy. Now in October, there is
problems in Raleigh, North Carolina and Houston, TX.



from
americabikes.org/resources_policy_bicyclefriendly.asp

Background
In ISTEA and TEA-21, Congress firmly established the
principle that the safe accommodation of bicycling and
walking is the responsibility of state and local
transportation agencies and that this responsibility
extends to the planning, design, operation,
maintenance and management of the transportation
system.

Current federal transportation law says:

Bicycle and pedestrian improvements are an eligible
activity in all the major funding programs.
State and local transportation plans are required to
include consideration of bicycle and pedestrian
projects and programs.
Bicycle and pedestrian facilities shall be considered
in all new construction and reconstruction projects.
Bridges being replaced or rebuilt with federal funds
shall be replaced so as to provide safe accommodations
for bicyclists (where bicyclists are permitted at each
end of the bridge).
No project or regulatory action shall be approved that
severs an existing major route or has a significant
adverse safety impact on bicyclists or pedestrians
unless a reasonable alternative exists or is to be
provided.
The Federal Highway Administration program guidance on
TEA-21 concludes that:

“Congress clearly intends for bicyclists and
pedestrians to have safe, convenient access to the
transportation system and sees every transportation
improvement as an opportunity to enhance the safety
and convenience of the two modes.”

Thus FHWA wrote:

“In the planning, design, and operation of
transportation facilities bicyclists and pedestrians
should be included as a matter of routine and the
decision not to accommodate them should be the
exception rather than the rule. There must be
exceptional circumstances for denying bicycle and
pedestrian access either by prohibition or by
designing highways that are incompatible with safe,
convenient walking and bicycling.”

This approach was confirmed one year later (February
2000) in a policy statement from FHWA saying
“bicycling and walking facilities will be incorporated
into all transportation projects unless exceptional
circumstances exist.”

Today, with a few exceptions, state and local
transportation agencies typically plan, design and
operate the transportation system in much the same way
they have been doing for the past 50 years: without
routinely including provisions for bicycling and
walking. As a consequence, most people in the United
States are effectively denied the choice of bicycling
or walking for most trips.

Thank you,

Jacob Pujals Vickery
Stone Mountain, Georgia

there was a case in the UK not so long ago where a newspaper said a similar thing and one of the national cycling bodies took legal action. surely you could do this in the states - i mean you can sue for tripping over your own child.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=38359
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=40440