I recently moved to downtown Philadelphia, where a car is optional if you work from home, and I thought about buying a bike. Everyone rides a bike in the city. Friends told me it’s dangerous and be careful. So it was with interest I read an article in The New York Times with the headline, “After 3 Cyclist Deaths, Mayor Vows Crackdown.”
It turns out that since 2014, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has set a goal, or more specifically a “vision,” that traffic deaths and injuries on city streets is, in his words, “not acceptable and… serious crashes will no longer (be regarded) as inevitable. We won’t accept this any longer.”