Meetings begin tonight for community input on the design of the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Bike and walking access are still options in the final design. Please get out and voice your support for non-motorized access to the new bridge.

Journal News writer, Khurram Saeed, wrote this report last week.

Rockland and Westchester county residents living along [...]

The family is inviting cyclists who want to pay tribute to Cassell to join them at the church at 11:30 a.m. Thursday for a mass ride to the cemetery. The funeral mass will be held at 10:30am at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 59 E. Main street in Elmsford. Cassell will be buried at [...]

Journal News reporter Rebecca Baker report the fFuneral services have been set for a 66-year-old bicycling advocate who was struck and killed last week by a Westchester Bee-Line bus.

A  wake for Merrill Cassell will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) at Edwin Bennett Funeral Homes, 824 Scarsdale Ave., in Scarsdale.

A funeral Mass [...]

Westchester Cycle Club president Dave Wilson just sent this alert for action to the club.
Folks,
As our court case against the state on the Route 100 rumble-strips wends its way through state Supreme Court, the state DOT has now proposed making rumble strips the preferred design on all two-lane roads in New York. This is terribly [...]

Here is Rebecca Baker’s most recent report on Merrill Cassell.

GREENBURGH — A “ghost bike” will be placed at the spot where a 66-year-old cycling advocate from Greenburgh was struck and killed last week by a Westchester Bee-Line bus.

Merrill Cassell, known for his efforts to integrate bicycle transport into Westchester County’s transportation plan, was believed to [...]

Friends of Merriell Cassell are preparing a “ghost bike” to place at the scene of his death on Route 119 in Greenburgh.

More details to follow.

Below is a comment from Stefanie, a friend of Merrill’s.

I am totally shocked. I saw this story break on NEWS12 Friday evening and thought ‘I wonder if I know the [...]

SALEM, Ore. (AP)  A bicycle helmet helped an Oregon teenager survive without serious injury when her head was run over by a car following a collision.

Marion County sheriff’s deputies said 18-year-old Heather Wolff of Scotts Mills was trying to avoid hitting a car driven by 30-year-old Brandon Steinke of Salem when she was thrown over [...]

I cannot stop thinking about a man I didn’t know, Merrill Cassell who died Friday afternoon while riding one of his beloved bicycles. I know this only from reading his web blog, The Merrill Pages. Here you will find many articles he wrote and photos from cycling trips.

Cassell’s Mission statement: To live life with enthusiasm, [...]

A bicyclist who died Friday after being struck by a Bee-Line bus was a 66-year-old town resident who pushed for greater use of bicycles in mass transit and recreation.

Merrill Cassell was believed to be crossing Route 119 about 3:30 p.m. when he was struck by the county bus traveling east near Aqueduct Road,Cassell, a retired [...]

Journal News writer Marcela Rojos filed this report identifying the cyclists killed Friday afternoon in Greenburgh.

A 66-year-old Greenburgh man who was killed after his bicycle was struck by a Westchester County Bee-Line bus has been identified as Merrill Cassell.

Cassell, who was wearing a helmet, was traveling eastbound on Tarrytown Road near Aqueduct Road around 3:30 [...]