Cyclist’s remains to be sent home
A Gofundme collection has amassed more than enough cash to send the body of the cyclist killed this week on Park Avenue home to Italy.
Random death is a terrible thing, but it’s especially regrettable for this city to kill a young man who came here for advanced studies and research only to get sent home in a box.
We should not wait for someone to get killed to speak up about locations we feel to be dangerous: we get used to coping with these urban hotspots and taking them in stride, but we’ve got to make more noise and elect better people.
CE 18:34 on 2021-10-01 Permalink
I’ve been saying for a while that if I get killed on my bike, I hope it’s on a street or at an intersection that needs some kind of rethink to make it safer. The only time we ever get fast and concrete action is after someone dies, rarely before it happens.
Robert H 03:12 on 2021-10-02 Permalink
@CE
Encore, un sacrifice. Malheureusement, il faut trop souvent une tragédie pour que de réels progrès soient réalisés. Mais veuillez ne vous arrêtez pas. Continuez à rouler, mais rouler prudemment. Je pense que la situation s’ameliorera pour nous, les cyclistes, mais criss que c’est dur a gagner. Ça fait couler trop de sang.
Meezly 12:46 on 2021-10-02 Permalink
In 2014, my coworkers witnessed Salim Aoudia being hit and dragged by a transport truck on the corner of Wellington and Nazareth while he was cycling. He was an engineering student who was about to get married, and his body was flown back to Algeria.
They did improve that intersection with better lights and clearer demarcations for pedestrians, though not so much for bikes, however. I think bikes are still expected to use the De La Commune bike path.
It does seem that this city waits for a death to happen to really do anything about a problematic intersection.
Kate 16:39 on 2021-10-02 Permalink
Meezly, I remember blogging about that incident. It must have been traumatic even to witness such a thing.