A pediatric doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/deadly-3-car-crash-rittenhouse-philadelphia/3915690/
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I’m a bit confused that the article says “protected” bike lane but the aerial shot shows no barriers? What exactly is meant by “protected”, because to me (and to google) protected means at least some kind of barrier.
It’s protected by a white line that shows cars aren’t allowed to cross over it?
I guess just municipalities describe it differently then. My city describes protected bike lanes as “dedicated bike lanes with concrete medians and planters, bicycle parking corrals, or vehicle parking lanes that divide them from vehicle traffic.”
The google image someone else posted of the street, to me, shows a regular bike lane.
Doesn’t change anything about this awful incident anyway, just thought the choice of words was interesting. Especially since later on in the article it says her death may have been prevented had there been a concrete median.
This thing (albeit fron New York) allows a “parking lane”, tobe the barrier I’s really hard to ttellif that is the case here; how fast was that thing going on a narrow residential street to do that much damage?
https://www.nycstreetdesign.info/geometry/protected-bike-lane
