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The driver who hit the friend's dad probably got no sanctions at all, not even a ticket, because drivers almost never get any punishment for traffic violence. Even when they kill a cyclist while doing something illegal like speeding, or failing to yield to a cyclist when turning, or when they kill a pedestrian by failing to yield to someone in a crosswalk.

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Sunnyvale. That would be the same Sunnyvale that has a "bike lane" that turns into car parking at 6 pm. Because, I guess, everyone who commutes by bike is home by 6, and nobody every goes out to dinner, or does errands, or visits friends, or comes home from a long bike ride after 6.

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Been hearing the same message for a long time now from Strong Towns. There’s something seriously broken with the way the city’s traffic engineers interface with the public.

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In my area, county traffic engineers took the main local arterial that cyclists use, and made it much more dangerous by forcing straight-through cyclists to merge past 50 mph turning drivers. When challenged, they said something like, "In the wake of this project we learned a lot of cyclists use this road." Why the **** didn't those bungling incompetents know that before they designed the death-trap? Obviously, because they didn't care about cyclists.

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I'm so sorry this happened to your partners father and that it just never stops happening anywhere. I 100% agree that we've reached the point where tactical urbanism is the only option. In addition to those you've listed, I appreciate the efforts of the Crosswalk Collective adding crosswalks in LA https://twitter.com/CrosswalksLA. I may have to paint one on my corner.

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120,000 cyclists are injured by motorist a year? I assume that number includes motorcyclists because there's only a million or so bicycle commuters in the US.

Tragically, deaths due to motor vehicles rose 21% from 37,500 in 2019 to 45,500 in 2021. The rise began in May/June 2020 and deaths disproportionately increased for young adults, males, Blacks, Native Americans and in urban centers. In Alameda county the overall jump was larger at 30%.

So I think it's worth raising awareness on the fact that we are heading in the wrong direction on this issue.

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