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	<title>Cycling Central</title>
	
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		<title>Voice your support for Bike and walking access to the New Tappan Zee Bridge design</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/10/voice-your-support-for-bike-and-walking-access-to-the-nnew-tappan-zee-bridge-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Cyclists invited to escort funeral procession of Merrill Cassell Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Wake and funeral services for Merrill Cassell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>NYDOT propses rumble strips on all two-lane roads, voice your opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Westchester Putnam Biking &amp; Walking Alliance to install a ‘Ghost Bike’ in memory of Merrill Cassell</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/09/westchester-putnam-biking-walking-alliance-to-install-a-ghost-bike-in-memory-of-merrill-cassell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here is Rebecca Baker&#8217;s most recent report on Merrill Cassell.

	GREENBURGH &#8212; A &#8220;ghost bike&#8221; 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&#8217;s transportation plan, was believed to [...]<br/>
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		<title>Ghost Bike to be placed in remembrance of Merrill Cassell</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/09/ghost-bike-to-be-placed-in-remembrance-of-merrill-cassell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Friends of Merriell Cassell are preparing a &#8220;ghost bike&#8221; 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&#8217;s. 

	I am totally shocked. I saw this story break on NEWS12 Friday evening and thought &#8216;I wonder if I know the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Bike helmet saves Oregon teen during accident</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/09/bike-helmet-saves-oregon-teen-during-accident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.” Meet Merrill Cassell</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/09/%e2%80%9cyou-don%e2%80%99t-get-to-choose-how-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-die-or-when-you-can-only-decide-how-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-live-%e2%80%9d-meet-mrriel-cassell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I cannot stop thinking about a man I didn&#8217;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&#8217;s Mission statement: To live life with enthusiasm, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Killed cycling advocate’s request in letter to the editor last year</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/08/killed-cycling-advocates-request-in-letter-to-the-editor-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Cycling advocate killed by Bee-Line bus</title>
		<link>http://cycling.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/07/cycling-advocate-killed-by-bee-line-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Wolf</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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