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Is MLK Drive's hostility to pedestrians partly to blame for another car plowing into another bicyclist yesterday?
Bike advocates point to poor enforcement and street planning on MLK Drive after another car plowed into another bicyclist yesterday.
Is MLK Drive's hostility to pedestrians partly to blame for another car plowing into another bicyclist yesterday?
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[Ongoing coverage of Philly's inevitable march to becoming a Biketopia]
As the Inquirer reported, a bicyclist was left in critical condition yesterday after a car hit him on Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive), which runs along the west bank of the Schuylkill River.
Reports the Inky:
The man, whose name was not released, was riding southbound on the sidewalk near the Strawberry Mansion Bridge about 7:40 p.m. when he attempted to cross the street and was hit by a northbound 2010 Toyota Camry, police said.
Note the phrase, "attempted to cross." Though technically a park road, MLK drive has become an effective highway through one of the most heavily-used portions of the most heavily-used part of Fairmount Park.
As we reported waaaaaaay back in 2009, the speed limit is 35 mph — but, as the Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Coalition's John Boyle found after spending a few hours there with a speed gun, virtually no one obeys the limit. Boyle found 100% of cars speeding.
The fact that the drive boasts only a few traffic lights (there is no light at the intersection which this bicyclist was trying to cross, says Boyle) and two hefty traffic lanes in each direction despite low traffic volume probably doesn't dissuade drivers from speeding, either.
In 2009, a different crash on that drive, involving a child, led the Bicycle Coalition to launch a "take back the drive" campaign. Since then, the city's told Coalition members that it's considering improvements but hasn't yet announced any.
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