Present #601 – Might 9. 2022

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Friends: Noa Banayan; Steve Magas

This week we communicate with Noa Bayanan.  Noa is the Director of Federal Coverage for People for Bikes, and he or she helps us unpack the America’s Recreation Act of 2022.  This a bi-partisan piece of laws that was launched within the Senate in November of final 12 months.

This invoice offers for extra recreation alternatives and facilitates higher entry to federal public lands

In it, there are two payments that pertain particularly to bicycling – one which helps to open up and join “long trails” and the second that frees up a while and problem for tour administrators, experience administrators, and even race administrators who're tasked with the permits required to make use of state and federal lands.

Right here is the knowledge on learn how to contact your legislator(s) relating to the Recreation Act of 2022.

My second visitor is Steve Magas – The Ohio Bike Lawyer.  

Whereas I meant to only kind out the crash statistics for Ohio, hoping to have the ability to extrapolate them throughout the nation, we really do much more than that, diving into a number of the causes that fatalities – which had been very excessive within the 1970’s started to say no till the early 2000’s – then started an upward trajectory.

In 2021, 21 folks had been killed on our roadways whereas using their bikes.  In 2022, it was much more devastating when the whole rose to twenty-eight.

Legal professional Steve Magas has been monitoring the statistics on fatalities in addition to noting different pertinent details in Ohio and Kentucky for a few years.  In our dialog, Steve offers us some crucial and detailed details about what's and isn’t essential with regards to being concerned in a crash along with some observations about how and why issues are a lot worse lately.

Right here is the knowledge on the Ohio Bike Federation and the maps talked about on the present.