If Car Drivers Made Bicyclists Feel Safer, We’d All Be Better Off

Biking home along the Capital Crescent Trail one day last fall, I came upon a stream of yellow police tape encircling the Little Falls Parkway crossing.

For bike commuters, cars and their drivers are the ever-present threat. Yellow tape means the worst. The victim that day was Ned Gaylin, a retired University of Maryland professor, killed when one car driver stopped to let him pass but another motorist did not.

I slowly navigated around the tape, telling police along the way that none should be surprised. The intersection was clearly unsafe, as I’d told Montgomery County officials many times, largely because of a design that needlessly gave cars two lanes in each direction.

Read the rest of the piece at the Washington Post.