Skip to main content

Oh yeah, I biked on Morgan Ave last week when I picked up the new cargo bike. It was sketchy af. Just lots of massive trucks buzzing me at like 15-20mph. Not at all surprised by this.

#SafeStreets #BikeTooter

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/03/10/breaking-cyclist-killed-by-hit-and-run-trucker-in-industrial-williamsburg/

Breaking: Cyclist Killed by Hit-and-Run Trucker in Industrial Williamsburg

A 56-year-old man on a bicycle was hit and killed by a truck driver in industrial Williamsburg late last night — and cops are now searching for the driver who fled. Locals know how dangerous the ar…
Streetsblog New York City
#BikeTooter #safestreets
in reply to Andres Salomon

Andres Salomon
Andres Salomon
• •
Preventable deaths, everywhere I look.

Shithole country.
in reply to Andres Salomon

Diane
Diane
• •
Ed Yong reporting on an analysis of just how many people are getting killed by the US's poor treatment of its residents.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/07/us-life-span-mortality-rates/670591/

America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID

Even before the pandemic began, more people here were dying at younger ages than in comparably wealthy nations.
Ed Yong (The Atlantic)

reshared this

⇧