I'll contact you directly later on and we can see what we can do.  (You must live farther south on Tomanet than me. )

Recently I came across the above post by Red Falcon.   I know it is a few years old but I was wondering if there was anyway to reach out to Red Falcon or any other member for another voice to contact the Transportation department to install a light at this intersection.   http://transportation.austintexas.io/signal-requests/

Please feel free to contact me directly at info (@) northpolexmastrees. (com)...   

Thank you
Illan David Kessler

Some idiot pulled out from the Fedex strip center driveway, crossed all of the lanes of traffic without looking, and nearly side swiped me.  I was able to slow to avoid him, but was close enough to punch the side of his car (which I did).   He was apologetic, and I told him to pay better attention.

Every afternoon when I make it past Parmer Lane on my commute home I am grateful to be alive.   I am glad to hear you are still riding!

If you see a yellow Rans Seavo recumbent tandem, that is us!!!!  Not many of those around so you can't miss us!!! Or a single on a red Baccchetta Strada, that is me.  We probably would not be riding if we hadn't converted to recumbents.  The neck, back, butt and arm pains have been eliminated, only get leg pain now!!! :)

Still no driving either.

Thanks everyone for you thoughts and prayers!!!!

Thanks for the encouragement.  I plan to stick around now that I have found this forum.  I have looked several times over the past few years for a biking forum and it is nice to have found one for our community.

I have ridden on Parmer many, many, many times over the last 11+ years without incident and even though it is a very busy rode I have never felt 'unsafe' or 'at risk' becasue if I had I would never have put my wife out there in harms way.  She even felt 'safe' and was enjoying riding to work a few days a week.  We had just ridden 40 miles in the Outlaw ride the week before, a new record for her, and she wasn't even tired.  Oh well we will be back in shape again in a few months, hopefully she will be able to ride again in May or June.

Please don't be put off by some of the comments you may see in the forums.  This is supposed to be a place for friendly dialogue, but unfortunately sometimes it's not so friendly.  Don't take it personally, and I do hope you'll stick around and participate.

If helmets worked anywhere near as well as theorized, on the other hand, we'd have seen a major drop in cycling head injuries and deaths as the usage of helmets has risen across the entire population (numbers large enough to draw some conclusions, unlike our anectdotes). Unfortunately, in the US as in every other country, such a trend is actually not possible to detect.

Luckily we have good health insurance because she has state minimum liability insurance!!!!  Most importantly though we didn't have to use our life insurance on one or both of us, so having my wife here still is worth paying our deductables and max out of pocket for a couple years.

We did get a property settlement though to get a new tandem and all the stuff we had with us on the bike for work.

What happened to the guy who hit you two?   I imagine you two probably maxed out his insurance within a day -- what's happening with your medical bills beyond that?