the GOT bike

In the second part, I spoke (no bike pun intended, actually, but I like it!) of the alleged solution to all problems: more money. Although, Wes Marshall suggests that given more financial resources, traffic engineers would play their same-old-tune of making roads bigger and more deadly. He does, however, hint at a more effective use for those funds. One tenet of Killed by a Traffic Engineer is that pedestrians and people on bicycles will often learn to avoid dangerous sections of road infrastructure if at all possible, so when an engineers arrive at those sites to perform usage counts, there are few or no vulnerable users. This avoidance is interpreted as a lack of demand, and the location isn't improved. Marshall points out that any time the designs of these spots become more inclusive anyway, pedestrian and bicycle usage jumps! Bicycles and baseball both bear "B". People on bikes and pedestrians tend to be more local, so they figure out what works, what is safe. Those ...