Bicycling Safety
These web pages are about how to ride a bicycle safely in traffic. There are three parallel discussions, two of which are for cyclists, differing in the level of detail, and one of which is for drivers. The section for drivers is designed to help drivers understand what they should expect cyclists to do in various circumstances. Cross links between corresponding sections exist, so that readers can switch both viewpoints and the level of detail as desired. The links on the top heading in the following table will take you to the full table of contents for a particular view (a partial table of contents is provided here).
The target audience includes anyone considering using a bicycle for commuting or other activities that require riding a bicycle in possibly heavy traffic. It is also useful as background material for parents who want to teach their children how to ride a bicycle safely.
Navigation
Except for the current page, all pages start and end with a table of links that allow you to switch to the next or previous section or to go between parallel views. The table will have an ">" symbol on the left to indicate the current view. A limited amount of color coding has been used to make this obvious: a color surrounds the ">" symbol and there is a horizontal line of the same color.
All the pages have a bicycle logo at the top left corner, except that this page may have a log preceding the bicycle logo with a link to a home page on the current web site. Clicking on the bicycle logo will visit this page. If the bicycle logo on this page is clicked, the current page will fill the whole browser window: if some web site arranges to display this page inside an HTML frame, clicking the bicycle logo will let you see this page, and all pages it has links to, without frames.
Browsers that are HTML 4.0 compliant may support keyboard shortcuts (defined by "ACCESSKEY" attributes). How a keyboard shortcut is used is up to the browser. You may just have to type the key or may need to use a modifier key (control, alt, etc.) in addition to the shortcut key: see your browser documentation for details and to see if this feature is supported. The shortcuts are as follows:
- 'T' (for Top) is equivalent to clicking on the bicycle logo and will bring you to this page.
- 'C' (for Contents) brings you to the table of contents for the current view. The current page does not use this option, since it has links to three tables of contents, reachable by using the 'B', 'E', and 'D' keys described below.
- 'N' (for Next) brings you to the next section. The current page does not support this option.
- 'P' (for Previous) brings you to the previous section. The current page does not support this option.
- 'B' (for Beginner) brings you to the parallel "beginner" section.
- 'E' (for Expert) brings you to the parallel "expert" section.
- 'D' (for Driver) brings you to the parallel "driver" section.
- '1', '2', etc. will bring you to the corresponding section or subsection number corresponding to the table of contents for a given page. This only applies to the 'top level' section number shown in the table. The current page does not support this, because there are three table of contents shown in parallel and the choice is therefore ambiguous, but 'B', 'E', and 'D' can be used instead. When a digit can be used as a shortcut, the table of contents near the start of each page will display the digit as the first character in the text denoting a link.