Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Speaking of horsecrap, any URL references to facts and data about all those cyclists who have died in the streets of the U.S due to "bike boxes and mixing zones"?
I just road in the "ride of silence" near the bike box which is marked by Kathryn Rickson's ghost bike. For me these infrastructure battles are personal. I road by this accident 30 minutes after it happened. I saw this young woman's blood on the road. I am absolutely fed up with seeing or hearing about cyclists injured due to infrastructure that even the f***ing portland burea of transportation reluctantly concluded is not safe. I have personally witnessed 2 additional accidents at bike boxes, including a young woman who suffered a very bloody compound fracture at 11th and Hawthorne. F*** bike boxes and f*** the mandatory sidepath law!
http://bikeportland.org/2012/05/16/c...injuries-71838
http://bikeportland.org/2012/10/16/c...-madison-78859
http://www.portlandmercury.com/Blogt...crease-crashes
And notice how the copenhagenistas at the portland bureau of transport blame the victim. The problem is not their crappy infrastructure but the speed at which cyclists are traveling. Bike boxes are ****ty infrastructure that were long ago discarded in the Netherlands.
Dutch bike infrastructure blogger Hembrow on bike boxes:
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com...rt-at-asl.html