Cycling Safely: Legislators looking at measures to address safer environment, infrastructure  - The Chronicle

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Cycling Safely: Legislators looking at measures to address safer environment, infrastructure  - The Chronicle

As the weather gets warmer, and even as it doesn’t, people are turning on two wheels rather than four. Bicycling is embedded in the pathways of the southern Willamette Valley, but is it a safe two-tired activity?Newly released data shows that Oregon’s “Bicycle Friendly State” rank dropped from No. 2 to No. 3 in 2024 due to an uptick in fatalities.Oregon reported 94 pedestrian and 12 bicyclist fatalities caused by traffic collisions last year, ac…