Biking in Boston

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cubbe8 said:
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Cycling advocate and city worker killed after being struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe

The 36-year-old woman "was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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It's good to hear a renewed call for accelerated bike/ped safety improvements following this tragedy. But it's sad that it always seems to take a death to catalyze significant or speedy safety interventions. Given the victim was a Boston Latin and Liveable Streets alum, former Wu intern, and current transportation planner for the City, I would hope the shock of this horrible killing gets the City to take street safety seriously.

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BACsop said:
But it's sad that it always seems to take a death to catalyze significant or speedy safety interventions.
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It's even sadder that so often death isn't even enough to catalyze significant or speedy safety interventions. To my knowledge, there has been nothing done to this day at Sleeper/Congress. We've had 5 peds/cyclists die in a 5 year period on Southern Artery in Quincy between Sea St and McGrath Highway and that is resulting in significant interventions....but on a 5+ year timescale of cobbling together funding sources, design, community input, etc. Still not at 100% design. Rt. 16 from Medford through Revere has something like 10 of the top 200 crash intersections in the state.

Where are the federally mandated slow zones the MBTA was subject to?
 
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