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[tenzil]

Less than a week ago, James Price, age 46, parent of an 11-year-old, was bicycling when a man driving a white car over 60mph and texting, hit him and ran, on Penn Avenue in Point Breeze. Price was killed

Comments

[cyberdryad]

Considering that drivers as a whole are unlikely to read your plea and even more unlikely to come across this revelation on their own, it would probably be safer to just keep cyclists off the road. I know that isn't a popular opinion, and that it isn't fair, but it seems like the only realistic solution to cyclist danger.

[tenzil]

I really disagree with this, as I'm sure you knew I would. I just spent a week in Delaware, where the bike infrastructure is fantastic and very safe. This is a matter of getting drivers to obey laws.

Bonus: a third driver hit a cyclist just this morning, and hit-and-ran: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/08/01/bicyclist-hit-by-truck-in-swissvale/

[dirque]

Dumb truck if it fled down regent square as there's a camera set up on the corner of hutchingson and braddock for license plate scraping and the police are dying to justify the expense.

Some roads are terrible to bike on, as for Penn in the Bike Pittsburgh map for bikers, they speciically tell you to avoid Penn. West of Fifth I'd go down East Liberty Blvd and east I think they suggest mcPherson. or thomas Blvd.

While i agree cars should be more aware, maybe bikers should do their homework too.

[tenzil]

Cyclists should do their homework and go on roads they feel best serve their purposes (I do avoid Penn, for instance, and generally only ride on the sidewalk if I must use it). The penalty for failing to do one's homework should not be death.