Dozens of helmeted commuters will tour downtown Raleigh on two wheels Friday morning, mingling with rush-hour automobile traffic in a group ride marking National Bike to Work Week.
Cyclists will gather on the north side of the Bicentennial Mall, in front of the Jones Street entrance to the Legislative Building. The event starts at 8:30 a.m. with a walk south through the mall and a ride looping around 18 blocks bounded by Edenton, Salisbury, Morgan, Fayetteville, Hargett, West and Jones streets.
Breakfast refreshments will be served at the end of the 45-minute ride. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, check the Bike to Work Week website or call 516-2158.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter and editor since 1976, he took over the 
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Ya those cyclist should
Sat, 07/18/2009 - 15:30 — blog85475Ya those cyclist should arrange riding on weekend . Friday is a week day so automobile and others traffic always on pressure...... -------------------------------------------------------------Cheap Car Hire
Yeah, and hope they still on
Tue, 07/28/2009 - 00:57 — makemineYeah, and hope they still on their own track
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Thu, 05/14/2009 - 19:18 — sutraquioHere we go again.God help you cyclists.I only know how to drive a regular 4-door sedan.Please be careful and try to protect yourselves from irate drivers who think you do not have a right to the road.I see there is one or maybe more in this forum.Watch out for the egotistic SUV driver too,cause they even try to run compact cars off the road.For some reason,the majority of people just HAD to have an SUV! I am even referring to my own family!I don't care,The darn things are a menace on the hi-way,and,darn it,don't forget,COMING OUT OF A PARKING SPACE BESIDE ONE!You park wayyyy away from "them",when you come back,there's TWO,one on either side!God bless and protect you CYCLISTS!
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Thu, 05/14/2009 - 21:03 — Dadof3As an avid commuter cyclist, SUVs aren't the problem -- it's the drivers who are pre-occupied with other things -- cell phones, quarreling kids, or plain indifference whom threaten me the most. A Smart car can end my life just as easily as a Navigator. The rant isn't against a car type -- it's against the chauvinistic attitude that only cars belong on roads.
For you cyclists that want to hit the road -- and you should -- it's saves tons of money, is great exercise, the view is great, it's fun and gives you bragging rights -- here's the tactic that has made road cycling very safe for me -- ride at least two feet to the left of the white line. That forces even the most aggressive driver to slow down. "Making room" for traffic only makes bicycling too dangerous.
That said, stop the smug "can't bike" (eyeroll) and learn. For crying out loud, your anti-SUV rant is rendered impotent by such a missing point. It's not "against" anything -- biking is a great positive for the cyclist.
(My other bike is a 94 Integra)
That's just great, traffic
Thu, 05/14/2009 - 16:44 — PlatowasrightThat's just great, traffic is clogged up enough without a bunch of joy riding bicyclists.