Signs will point to bike safety

By Kerry Fehr-Snyder - The Arizona Republic

Phoenix has selected Ahwatukee Foothills for bike safety signs to remind motorists that they must give cyclists at least three feet of roadway.

The signs, which could be 8 feet wide by 3 feet tall compared with standard street signs that are about 2 by 3 feet, come more than two years after a retired engineer cycling along Pecos Road was struck and killed by a car and about three months after a triathlete was seriously injured when struck by a car on Chandler Boulevard.

The driver walked away without a ticket in the Pecos Road incident in which Don Anselmo died, outraging fellow cyclists and other Valley residents.

His widow, Rita Anselmo, and other bicyclists groups pushed for the signs "because you know, motorists think they own the road down there," Rita Anselmo said.

<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0203phx-signs0203Z3.html">http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0203phx-signs0203Z3.html</a>;

About the triathlete:
<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/1115ar-bikehit1115Z14.html">http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/1115ar-bikehit1115Z14.html</a>;

About Anselmo:
<a href="http://azbikelaw.org/articles/anselmo.html">http://azbikelaw.org/articles/anselmo.html</a>;