the GOT bike

  Ghost bike placed Saturday  Damon Road, Northampton east of I-91 overpass  First, yes, this post's title is potentially problematic, and I debated if it was disrespectful of the Black Lives Matter movement, and more importantly the lives of dark skinned people that were ended prematurely. I do wish that people, regardless of their complexion or mode of transport, could live without being killed by others who show a lack of consideration for their humanity. Last week a human being named Devin Reade was killed while on a bike in Northampton. This occurred on a convenient connector road that I learned to avoid years ago, and this recalls an idea presented in Killed by a Traffic Engineer : bad roads are neglected when multimodal infrastructure is added because locals have learned to avoid them and the accident rate drops for this reason, not because they are safe. Here, in this case, it grows more complex. Two years ago the DOT completed work on that section of Damon Road, ...