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May 29, 2015

PROTECTING CICLISTS * USA: With TRUCK SIDE GUARDS

* Massachusetts - Biking in cycle-friendly Cambridge is safer with new truck side guards
-- Back in December, Cambridge officials moved ahead with an implementation plan for side guards on city-owned trucks to protect pedestrians and cyclists from getting pulled underneath in the unfortunate chance a collision occurs... Cambridge partnered up with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to resign, install and draft a strategy for the side guards on heavy-duty trucks... Boston became the first city in the nation to mandate certain sized city trucks be equipped with the protective measure back in October. Data from across the pond, though, indicates that side guards do, in fact, work... The move to add side guards comes as no surprise, really, as Cambridge is consistently ranked as one of the top – if not the number one – bike-friendly city in the entire nation. It's policy, infrastructure, and governmental support have propelled cycling to the transportation mode of choice for many residents, as well as students at one of the city's prestigious higher-ed institutions... 
(Image via City of Cambridge)   --  Cambridge, MASS, USA - BostInno, by Nick DeLuca - 25 May 2015

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