You see, I blame the schools for this. Teachers aren't providing kids with the tools to succeed in life. Every school in America should be REQUIRED to teach kids if you want to kill a man legally, you need to pass the academy exam and get your badge first. Fuck, come on people, this is basic stuff
(big /s in case anyone cared)
This is the most painful "you had me in the first half" I've seen in a while.
In America all you need is your own car/rental and no evidence of intentional homicide and you can run over all the bicyclists you want. I'm a 20yr biking commuter and most car/bike accidents go unpunished.
Let's hope this help showing how the lack of bike lanes kill people. Cyclists have the right to move as much as people driving and deserve the same quality of service and investing as private vehicles (cars), and public transit.
And trains too.
This wasn't an accidental hit an run. They aimed the car at the cyclist. A bicycle lane wouldn't have been a factor in this case.
Depends on how protected it is, I've seen variants here with fences
Of course it would help, a physical separation between the two would made it harder to the driver to hit the cyclists. A bike lane that is just a line of paint on the road wouldn't, but paint is not infrastructure.
In the Netherlands (we know about bike lanes!).A bike lane is often not seperated from cars with any physical barriers in urban area's. When someone intentionally wants to hit you with their car there is little to stop them.
I'm guessing you also don't need them.
Truly disgusting behavior, glad he's getting charged.
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