Traffic safety for everyone

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   dltowns

    /  May 24, 2010

   Local governments are pretty good at legislation by anecdote–that’s were a citizen sees something he/she doesn’t like, says “there ought to be a law,” and gets the town council to pass one. Where’s the data? How many accidents at this intersection? How many with bikes? What kind of accidents? How does it rank with other intersections? I, too, ride a bike regularly–about 10 miles a day on average. I once saw a biker almost get hit at the Estes/MLK intersection. It was the biker’s fault. But urging bikes be banned on MLK because of that one incident makes as much sense as halting rights on red because someone observed a different incident.