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Hello! I& #39;ve been hit by a car! First thing first, I& #39;m all right, just some scrapes and bruises.
Even though I& #39;m working from home, I like to take little "commute" bike rides in the mornings to convince my mind that "work" is a real thing that I& #39;m actually "going to."
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Even though I& #39;m working from home, I like to take little "commute" bike rides in the mornings to convince my mind that "work" is a real thing that I& #39;m actually "going to."
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Usually these little home-to-home "commutes" feel great. But sometimes, they feel really scary. In recent weeks, I& #39;ve had a passenger in a car slap my shoulder as they drove by...
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... a driver spray me with a squirt gun (I admit it was a hot day and it wasn& #39;t *entirely* unwelcome) ...
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... and several drivers seem to just not see me at all.
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I shouldn& #39;t be hard to see. I wear bright orange and my bike has lights and reflective tape on it. But that shouldn& #39;t matter. We really should be driving our cars with our eyes wide open and our attention fully focused so we don& #39;t accidentally hit people with them.
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People in poor and minority communities are disproportionately exposed to this kind of danger. These are the communities with the lowest rates of car ownership, the highest reliance on alternative modes of transit, and ...
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