Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
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 separationist wankers 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
One tragic fatal accident that involved a right turning vehicle occurred in a bike box no matter how personal it is to you does not make a case for or against bikeboxes or any other street design. Hundreds of fatalities have occurred that were not in bike boxes, some with right turning trucks or other vehicles; thousands if not millions of cyclists have passed through bike boxes without a scratch. What does that mean to you?