Share The Road: How Cities Can Keep Cyclists Safe
A cyclist rides with morning traffic on the Lower East Side in July 2019 in New York City. As the nation's largest city tries to balance an increasing number of bicyclists along its streets, the numbers of bike riders killed and injured continues to rise.The streets aren’t safe enough for cyclists these days. Although overall traffic fatalities in the U.S.
, cyclist deaths increased by 10 percent from the previous year. Cities across the nation are looking for strategies to combat what some are calling an “epidemic.”. Eight people have been killed riding bikes there since June, bringing the city’s total number of fatalities to 19 so far this year.
In Washington, D.C., the number of bike riders has quintupled in the last 15 years. The degree of bike advocacy has followed suit. And thankfully, for cycling enthusiasts, there are a number of bike lanes available on busy roads. However, asThe lane on 15th Street NW, among the city’s most celebrated, has numerous risk factors that contribute to collisions and falls.
Even as bike lanes increase in some cities nationwide, their construction is time-intensive, and the ones we currently have might not be as effective as they could be. Plus, bike activists often encounter community resistance to change on the roads. Asnotes, researchers say that in order to take concrete steps towards decreasing biker deaths, the lanes we build in the future should be separated from cars as much as possible.
As more Americans choose cycling to get where they’re going, how can we can keep them safe on the roads?Attorney representing injured cyclists and pedestrians; author, “Surviving the Crash: Your Legal Rights in a Bicycle Accident”;
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