I’ve had way too many otherwise-serious people tell me we can’t implement basic safety measures because drivers will retaliate with violence. It’s wild.

My 45 minute bus commute became 20 minutes on my bike. I never had the intention of becoming so involved in the bike activism space…but when you make the decision to ride your bike as your main method of transportation (for environmental, health, financial, or speed reasons), you’re forced to.

Here’s how to make our streets safer for kids to bike and walk. My article:
www.collegetowns.org/p/making-sch...

I’ve had way too many conversations with people trying to confidently convince me that the law does, in fact, say you *must* turn right on red. Also, that you’re legally supposed to yield a right on red without stopping. Gotta love drivers making up laws out of whole cloth.

It’s easy to be cynical and say they ignore them or they don’t care, but there’s a big green box in the middle of the road with a picture of a bike, and I have to believe most drivers register them as much as any other marking, so even if they ignore it, what is it they think they’re ignoring?

Yeah, that sounds about right.

I asked a county engineer why their plan had a suicide lane on a one-block residential stretch. He very quickly said, “the driveways”. There are maybe 3 driveways, and only on one side. I told him the rest of the street had no center turn lane despite being nothing but driveways. Blank stare.

Friend, you are far braver than I.