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Next we bring you an update
to a bike safety story

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a few months back the school year ended
with some great bike safety training for

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kids but what about out on the streets
reported Justin Paige wanted to see how

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things were going for the bikers drivers
and pedestrians now that the summer is in

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full swing since two thousand and ten the
number of bikers across the city has

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nearly doubled the city has created new
bike paths and other amenities but some are

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concerned that education in Forstmann lag
City Hall has an outreach program but

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maybe it's not enough police in residence
report continue driver and biker

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violations. We do have. The same
problems communities have with.

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All road users not necessarily using their
own ability they said so you do see some

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red lane violations for example it's
common when we hear complaints about. It's

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hard to pick sort of the
biggest challenges there's

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a variety of of impacts that we're trying
to make. I know the as we were discussing

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the police have been. Doing some
enforcement to educate as well as to take

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a city hall has

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a bike safety poster campaign but is currently
out of posters so education falls to

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the police I've pulled over between
three and four hundred cyclists and had

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a conversation in either given

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a verbal warning or written warning for the
most part I haven't I haven't given up

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any money fines I would say one percent
are for money the rest are just education

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conversation. So far in twenty fourteen
the police have issued five hundred six

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citations to bikers for violations such
as biking on sidewalks and business

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districts and going through stop signals
one reason for the increased enforcement

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is

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a new thirty five thousand dollars bring
it aimed at improving biker and pedestrian

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safety. It will help because you'll get
more people out there doing it right now

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there aren't that many of us are out there
doing bicycle enforcement I was out this

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morning with the other officer and we
were doing just that I wasn't doing the

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Granted force and I was just doing what I
regularly do every morning and the other

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officer was on that grant program.
There's plenty of room to improve there

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are

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a lot of my schoolis and we're doing our
best see at the message out I'm out there

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every morning and I have seen

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a marked improvement yes it's getting much
better. We're trying to be the number

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one bike city in the country and I think
we're well on our way the grid is

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a lot for increased enforcement of laws
that regulate both drivers and bikers real

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safety continue to improve our reporters
will keep on this story for Somerville

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neighborhood News I'm just in page list
certainly aren't kind of bikers in Union

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Square Yeah I definitely think
there's room for improvement.