Sadly, that’s exactly where bike lanes were installed in 2017 after a years-long community process, only to be removed following complaints from drivers used to zooming along the street.
It’s impossible to know whether this tragedy could have been prevented if the bike lanes were still there. But their removal will almost certainly mean Los Angeles will be liable for her death.
My eye was caught by the wording of “and her unborn baby,” which is often used by anti-abortion people to describe a fetus, in order to push their agenda.
Having read the article: The cyclist was 7 months pregnant, and declared DOA when the ambulance arrived at the hospital.
The baby must have been delivered by a post-mortem emergency C-section, because she died in the NICU a couple days later.
So she was a newborn premature baby when she died, but not when the car (and arguably the dangerous infrastructure) killed her mother.
I’ll allow it.
My first thought was: “Dang, I wonder what that one night in the NICU is going to ultimately cost the survivors.”
Feels like the most American thing ever to lose one’s family to dangerous infrastructure and careless driving and then also be bankrupted by the funeral and medical expenses overnight.
Thank you for checking it out. It weirded me out as well.
I think I’d just have said pregnant woman.
I’m always in favor of using loaded terminology like “unborn baby” when they’re the victims of right-wing shit like this.
That’s maybe what I hate most about this country.
Freedom is equated with convenience, and absolutely nothing is allowed to come between a person and their convenience, or it is felt as a breach of their liberty, even if it is a significant public good. (Hence why we saw so much fighting during COVID.)
It’s convenient to live in a walkbake city. People oppose that all the time.
Most people who drive would not agree with you.
IN A WALKABLE CITY
Please read all the words
This is true for walkable cities too. It’s why NYC has to introduce congestion tolls.
Also, don’t be a jerk to people.
Only in the US. People who drive in other countries also walk sometimes. The carbrain is a particular form of US mentality.
This doesn’t seem very convenient to me though.
Me neither, but most of my countrymen don’t think it through.
