That's one of the recommendations Portland, Oregon's alternative newsweekly Willamette Week makes in an article titled Vicious Cycle. The piece was written a couple of weeks ago, after a second fatal accident involving a moving vehicle (a garbage truck!) and a bicycle in the month of October (a total of six cyclists have died in Portland this year).

Odd, then, isn't it that the New York Times would recently run a story titled In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels? Granted, it's a small business story about Portland's burgeoning bike economy, but without the appropriate bike-friendly regulations and infrastructure, what good is a healthy bike biz?

Now, consider the fact that Portland is deemed one of the most bike-friendly cities in the U.S. If Portland has yet to implement many of the following suggestions, what does that say about your town or city?

Here's Willamette Week's list of 14 ways that Portland could really live the dream of bike equality, I'm sure many of them would make sense where you live too.

• separated bike lanes
• reduced speed limits
• bike boulevards
• better signals
• paint bike lanes blue
• require convex rear view mirrors on trucks
• create bike "boxes" at key intersections
• no right on red
• close some streets to cars
• new trails and routes
• helmets for grownups
• bust bad bikers
• drivers' ed
• riders' licenses

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