Thanks to Cathy for ending HearSay today mentioning SSDD

In case you missed Hearsay's Show today, you can catch their Podcast.

About today's show.

What is Share Shore Drive Day?

A day of safety and sharing for everyone including pedestrians and cyclists who travel Shore Drive.

To promote and further the multimodal designation and safe use of Shore Drive throughout the year.

To remember those who've been injured and lost while traveling Shore Drive.

35 in two weeks

Thank you to all who've help make this possible.

Pilotonline.com:

After weeks years of butting heads with city traffic engineers, neighborhood activists and those who lost loved ones on Shore Drive got what they wanted: a lower speed limit.

At The Hampton Roads Cyclist:

Lowering the speed limit will help in at least two ways: 1) it will give all users of Shore Drive a little bit of extra time to see and safely respond to each other, and 2) when something does go wrong the chances of a fatal outcome will be reduced (see motor vehicle fatality rates).

HearSay on June 3rd has show on Bike Culture with Weiss, Drees & Cheney

Tune in June 3rd at noon to listen and call in:

Thursday, June 3
Bike Culture
The United States was an early adopter of "car culture". With increased awareness of carbon footprints on the rise some are turning to a simpler mode of transportation - bikes. Today we'll talk about the intersection of car and bike culture both nationally and locally. Guests: Eben Weiss, author of 'Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling', Bruce Drees, a Hampton Roads bicycling advocate who is a League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor and Wes Cheney who writes about bicycling in Hampton Roads for the Alt Daily.

http://www.tbarides.org/
http://www.bikeleague.org
http://www.altdaily.com/
http://fotobywes.blogspot.com/
http://www.bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/

They missed Bruce's site http://www.hrcyclist.info/ !

Op-Ed in Pilot entitled Slow down on Shore Drive

Read and comment at Pilotonline.com:

In the past four years, as The Pilot's Aaron Applegate reported recently, five more people have died walking along or across Shore Drive. Alcohol was a factor in some of those deaths but not all. A veteran cyclist was killed there during a ride at dawn last April.

Join the conversation at Envision Transportation

Envision Transportation in Hampton Roads:

The Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement, in partnership with the City of Virginia Beach has started a new public conversation about transportation possibilities and their far-reaching impacts.

This project combines the power of visual imagery, new means of information distribution, and the extraordinary value of involving the community in imagining its transportation future.
During the process, citizens will have opportunities to outline future choices and express their preferences.

Engineer recently quoted in article about Shore Drive has Op-Ed in Pilot

At Pilotonline.com:

I deeply sympathize with the friends and families who have lost loved ones on Shore Drive in recent years. If it is determined that reducing the speed limit will help solve the problem, we can do it. If there is a better approach, we will do that, too. I am committed to making Shore Drive, as well as the rest of the roads in Virginia Beach, safer for everyone.

"LaHood turned transportation policy on its head with a declaration that pedestrians and cyclists should be treated as equals with drivers."

Listen, comment, read transcripts at NPR.org:

In March, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood drew both praise and derision when he declared that from now on bicyclists and pedestrians would get the same priority as cars and trucks, much of the latter from the trucking industry. Then came news this week that four House Republicans signed on with Democrats to a letter that lauds the policy change.

3 Letters to the Editor at Pilotonline.com about Shore Drive

You can read and comment at each link. If you prefer not to Register at the Pilotonline.com, you can also comment at this post.

• 25 mph at night, 45 day
• No more Shore Drive bars
• No harm in cutting speed

Va Pilot article about Shore Drive safety in Sunday's paper

Read, comment, and answer poll at Pilotonline.com article:

They're planning events at Shore Drive restaurants to raise awareness, flooding the City Council with e-mails, making rubber bracelets that will say "Save Lives on Shore Drive," and hoping to print cocktail napkins for restaurants cautioning patrons of the road's danger.

Related at SDCC.info.