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San Luis Obispo police searching for bike rider who fled traffic stop

Written on 12 Aug, 2024 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo police are searching for a bike rider who fled from a traffic stop on Broad Street. The police department is circulating an image of a male who appears to be riding an electric bicycle.... (Continue reading)

SLO police issue 34 citations during traffic safety operation

Written on 8 Aug, 2024 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo police cited a combined total of 34 drivers and bicyclists for a variety of violations during a traffic safety operation last week. Officers conducted the traffic safety operation citywide from 3 p.m. to 7... (Continue reading)

SLO police cite 13 during bicycle and pedestrian safety operation

Written on 6 Apr, 2024 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN The San Luis Obispo Police Department issued 13 citations to drivers and bicyclists for a variety of violations during a bicycle and pedestrian safety operation on Thursday. Police officers conducted the operation citywide from 7 a.m. to... (Continue reading)

SLO police cite 11 during bicycle and pedestrian safety operation

Written on 6 Feb, 2024 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN The San Luis Obispo Police Department issued 11 citations to drivers during a bicycle and pedestrian safety operation conducted last week. Between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Feb. 1, officers stopped 15 people during the operation... (Continue reading)

Bicycle advocate, leader or hypocrite?

Written on 3 Sep, 2018 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 46 comments

San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon appears to want everyone to bike – except her. [Cal Coast Times] While Harmon attempts to push city residents towards a “driver-less future,” she does not regularly ride her bicycle to city meetings. On... (Continue reading)

Court provides tools to thwart a run-away city council

Written on 27 Feb, 2018 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

OPINION of STEW JENKINS The day after the San Luis Obispo City Council gave Broad and Chorro Street residents the middle finger replacing their parking and auto access with a “bicycle boulevard,” the First District Court of Appeal gave voters... (Continue reading)

Is SLO City Council ignoring the public and the Brown Act?

Written on 22 Feb, 2018 in Featured, Opinion | 13 comments

OPINION by RICHARD SCHMIDT Just two weeks after approving a compromise bicycle plan for the Broad and Chorro corridor that sought balance between residents’ needs and bikers wants, San Luis Obispo’s City Council, in an hour-long non-agendized public hearing, threw... (Continue reading)

Bicyclist killed in SLO hit-and-run

Written on 30 Aug, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

A car collided with a bicycle in San Luis Obispo late Tuesday night, killing a man who was riding the bike. The driver then fled the scene, and police are now searching for the vehicle and multiple suspects. [KSBY] Shortly... (Continue reading)

Atascadero cyclist wins race from Canada to Mexico

Written on 26 Jun, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

An Atascadero man emerged victorious in a rough-terrain cycling race from Canada to a Mexican border town in New Mexico. Brian Lucido, 41, finished first on Saturday in the 2017 Tour Divide, an approximately 2,750 mile race. The mountainous route... (Continue reading)

SLO bicyclist struck and killed while racing in Kansas

Written on 19 Jun, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A 61-year-old San Luis Obispo bicyclist was struck and killed in Kansas Saturday night amid a bike race across the United States. Eric Fishbein was participating in the Trans Am Bike Race, which begins in Oregon and ends in Virginia.... (Continue reading)