The Federal Highway Administration study and marketing claiming that cycle tracks reduce bicycle crashes by 53% is based only on vehicle-bicycle crashes that occur more than 250 feet from intersections--with most of the data coming from San Francisco, and some from Seattle and Cambridge, Massachusetts. No crashes that did not involve motor vehicles were included in the study, and the safety findings found with vehicle-involved crashes failed when intersections or the full corridors were studied.
I was finally able to find a series of published studies showing how police reports/vehicle-bicycle-only crashes vastly under-report bicyclist crashes and injuries/hospital visits/admissions. One of them that included data from the main trauma center in San Francisco shows: (1) 41.5% of injuries were cyclist-only (did not involve a motor vehicle), (2) cyclist-only injuries were four times more likely to require hospital admission than vehicle-bicycle injuries, and (3) there was no police report associated with 54.5% of all bicyclist injuries. This raises even more questions about the FHWA study claims.
Also, it seems that the right-hook problem at cycle-track junctions has also been a problem in Cambridge (two fatalities) and Seattle (traumatic brain injury)--all in 2024. The circumstances are eerily similar to the fatality on Leucadia Boulevard--truck or large vehicle turning right at junctions where the cycle-track vertical components are installed right up to the turning area. Then there are subsequent lawsuits for poor design due to lack of sight distance.
https://mass.streetsblog.org/.../truck-drivers-have...
https://komonews.com/.../cyclist-green-lake-neighborhood...
Monday, July 7, 2025
Studies supporting Blakespear's fatal cycle tracks were flawed?
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No, that can’t be.
ReplyDeleteJust ask gonzo or his fat, ugly sister. Is she still banging that white predator?
Yep It the Democratic- Union proud :
DeleteGonzo - Fletcher Family
Union Chief Officer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Proud Girls! 🏳️⚧️🤪💉🤪💉🤪💉🤪🏳️⚧️
Union built = Shit built
You mean the Gonzo - Letcher Family
DeletePreying on young immigrant latinas.
Who is signed up for the next hunt?
Everything the left does......it ruins.
ReplyDeletebiden and harris are traitors to the U.S because of open an border to the South. They should be tried and if found guilty, hung or life in prison. Traitors to America. Traitors
Deflection rejected
DeleteYou people don't get it...........the America hating left let in millions of illegals......they ride these cheap pieces of crap bicycles all over Encinitas, they live in canyons and they will get hit by a car once in a while. Then they find an America hating leftist lawyer and they sue the City of Encinitas................wake up morons.
DeleteWhat's dumber than a leftist..........someone that likes them
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DeleteMore important than your ramblings, using this data to help get the cycle track removed.
ReplyDeleteYou didn’t answer the questions. You’re pushing a conspiracy.
Delete- red light and Fenty lover
When is the city of Encinitas going to disclose what they paid in the Worley wrongful death lawsuit settlement?
ReplyDeleteThe four c’s should get a nice fat settlement for the wrongful death of their father.
ReplyDeleteShe sure cost the city of Encinitas a shit ton of money and bad, bad, bad hazardous conditions, and reduction of quality of life.
Blakespear, Starvin, and 🐽gave us Kranzinitas. 🤮
How much do you think this Blakespear’s mistake is gonna cost the city?
You mean her husband Omed aka Jeremy Blakespear who is now frantically trying to deflect blame for his idiotic and predictably dangerous design. Never forget how proudly the wife Blakespear looked at him the night he unveiled it at a council meeting. Kranz fully on board, as are their blind followers, even as the evidence carnage builds.
DeleteJeremy's birth was an idiotic and predictable design, no?
Delete3:21 Yep - Non other than the Cardiff Gimp itself. The Gimp and Abe personally designed the bike traps with Shill's approval . They have taken out numerous bikes and caused pedestrian and beach goer collisions.
ReplyDeleteShaun Wallace is a good honest dude with his heart in the right spot. He walks the talk and tried to get the City to address this issue years ago before all the unnecessary collisions and deaths. He speaks 100% truth and Milton nails it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KVV_LPcek
Lawsuits are going to top $30 million on this one. Guaranteed and Encinitas families continue to suffer because of the irresponsible actions at City Hall.
Questions of the day:
1) Is Abe still getting a paycheck from the tax payers of Encinitas?
2) Is the Gimp still the City's chief bike trap designer?
3) Who else at the City Hall has their fingerprints on this hazard and are responsible for this huge shit show harming people and leading towards deaths?
Great questions. I would like to hear the answers.
DeleteIt’s so sad. All the unnecessary deaths and tragedies keep coming in Encinitas. City leaders are you listening?
Did you hear the words from Emery‘s parents?
We’ve heard plenty of babble talk. Why is City Hall taken zero action, as Emery’s grieving father asked?
Solo bike accidents. Nothing more to say, case closed.
ReplyDeleteMaybe some need to learn that people are naturally klutzes.
Shut up Gonzo. You and the Gimp have zero credibility.
DeleteSpoken like a true Blakespear adherent. Blame the victims for their pain, suffering, death thanks to her council’s “improvements.” Never saw that level of carnage in Cardiff before Jeremy got involved making our roads safer. Cue Marco Gonzalez to dog pile on this “logic.“
Delete7:17 the"safe" bike lanes are the danger. Encouraging klutzes doesn't help.
DeleteIn a solo bike crash, whom should be blamed? Certainly not cars.
When I was a kid, I was involved in many many solo bike crashes.
DeleteMy advice is get up, run some dirt on it, and go back to jumping over your friends lying on the ground.
8 of the top 10 most dangerous states for cyclists are long time deep red Republican run states.
ReplyDeleteRepublican leadership and policies create shitholes full of losers.
On every meaningful aspect of life: access to healthcare, life span, alcoholism, diabetes, obesity, smoking, opioid deaths, violent crime, gun deaths, college degrees, income, economic growth, economic productivity, innovation, personal bankruptcies, real estate value—and now we add to the list: cyclist death rate. On every important metric, Republican leadership and policies predict exactly how shitty a state will be.
Shitholes full of losers.
https://baderlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Most-Expensive-States-for-Child-Care-2024@3x.png
Deflected. Stupid comment.
Delete1.) The author of this on Facebook isn’t looking for truth. He’s using confirmation bias to find only the studies and angle that supports his cause.
ReplyDelete2.) He fails to show that the studies he found are the ones relied upon for any local decisions.
3.) He fails to consider the control group. He declares that the data shows bollards cause right hook accidents. Not true. The data doesn’t compare the likelyhood of right hooks with and without bollards. Obviously they can happen with or without bollards.
This is a classic example of exploring data wrong. Don’t look for data to support what you already think. Go into data looking for the truth. Or if you are really smart, go into the data trying to prove yourself wrong.
Provide some real stats then.
DeleteThe reference articles prove that the current design is a huge failure and statistics on the Restore Cardiff bike Lane speak for themselves.
Is Abe still a city employee?
Anecdotes by people with an agenda are not statistics.
DeleteBut officer i was texting my gf while drinking 4 shot caddy margs going 79mph 250ft from an intersection and only 4 people got run over...
ReplyDeleteI thought 5 was the threshold?
Asking for Rabbi Scott Weiner 🤷♀️
Did he put a shot of castor oil in there? I hear its health promoting
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