Yesterday, this cool kid--with her bright red bike, hot pink helmet, dual blinkies, and rotating rainbow wheel lights--waited at a high-viz crosswalk in a school zone while 7 adult drivers pretended not to see her.
#BikeTooter #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #KidsOnBikes #VisionZero #CarBrain
I'm fortunate to have a job that largely lets me set my own work schedule, so that I can be available to escort this kid to and from school every day. I'm in a privileged minority, and it's ridiculous that this is what it takes to keep a kid alive without a car these days.
@DrTCombs in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland - Northern Ireland has different traffic law) pedestrians and vulnerable road users always have priority and you are taught in driving school that you *must* stop for pedestrians and give cyclists room, although even so many motorists only begrudingly do so because they are scared of CCTV cameras and other folks dashcams/bikecams and or being reported or ending up on Nextdoor...
This is why I get viscerally angry at so-called road safety campaigns that give out warnings and reflective vests to kids.
That's not teaching kids safety. That's teaching kids that it's on them to make up for the selfishness of adults.
That's one hell of a message.