http://statenews.com One student was transported by ambulance to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital for cuts and lacerations he sustained while riding his bicycle after colliding with another bicycle at about 11:24 a.m. Wednesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:51:21 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44623 From Ann Arbor!? Get out of our town. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:53:44 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44623 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44629 collided? lmao. are you serious? How is that even possible? Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:32:15 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44629 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44633 It’s possible, lol. I fondly remember cruising to classes on my bike and nearly getting creamed by some jerk on his $10K mountain bike that had no business riding on campus. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:24:11 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44633 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44680 I’ve been on a lot of large campuses, and MSU’s is unusually hazardous to bike, walk, and drive on. There’s a real free-for-all feel to the traffic, poor overall planning of transportation routes, and, from what I’ve seen, zero police enforcement of safe driving/biking practices. On the other hand, it does keep things exciting. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:51:17 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44680 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44683 MSU does its job in providing spaces for people in bikes and people walking, like different sidewalks for bikes or marked roads within normal sidewalks. This is their fault. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:11:23 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44683 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44685 Actually, for a campus this size the bike paths are poor — incomplete, inadequate, and badly marked. As a result most cyclists use the sidewalk, often at an unsafe rate of speed (almost certainly a factor in this crash). The real problem, though, is that there is no enforcement — of cyclists speeding on sidewalks, of drivers failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, of anything. There is zealous enforcement of parking, but that doesn’t affect safety one bit. Laws that are never enforced don’t tend to be obeyed. In fairness to the cops, this is a huge campus, and perhaps consistent enforcement of traffic laws is simply beyond their capacity. That’s how it feels now — like the campus is a lawless zone where it’s every walker, biker, and driver for himself. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:05:17 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44685 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44719 I have to agree with the noter who calls themselves “Rufus”. I was hit by a car while on my bicycle in a crosswalk on Bogue, where there is no bike path. I was injured badly enough to be taken to the ER as was this unfortunate person. Accidents involving pedestrians and drivers are, for whatever reason, common at MSU. And unfortunately, they have been becoming more so. I hope something can be done in the near future in order to make every driver, biker, and walker safer here. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:15:02 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44719 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44749 Bogue and Shaw is a perfect example of the Hobson’s choice bicyclists have to make: be a vehicle – mix with motorists, or use the bike path, and dismount to WALK across the roadway. I choose to ‘man-up’ and put my life in the motorists’ hands instead of using the marked bike path. Can you imagine the traffic jams if ALL of the bicyclists were to dismount and walk across the streets (in a deliberate fashion)? Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:51:21 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44749