8 Ways to Demand Safer Streets for Bikes
No, you’re not imagining it. Drivers are more distracted and reckless than ever. Here’s how to fight back.
More cyclists are dying on U.S. roads than ever before. According to federal data, cyclist fatalities on the roads have increased almost every year since 2010, and preliminary data from 2020 project an all-time high of more than 850 cyclists killed. (In the same time frame, driver fatalities have also risen, but not nearly as much and remain well under the 2005 high.)
There are more cyclists on the road today than a decade ago, and a bike boom still ongoing because of the coronavirus pandemic means even more people will be on the roads now and in the future. If we’re going to reverse these trends, it’s going to require changing the culture so that cycling is both safe and perceived as safe. Here are some steps that we think need to happen.
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