[*BCM*] List of dangerous streets

[Andrew Toomajian]

I think it might be more productive to focus on "best" routes rather than which streets are dangerous and why.  The SF Bike coalition, for example, makes a map of bike routes through the city avoiding it's major hills.  It would be a great project to do this for Boston, with the goal of avoiding areas of especially high traffic, severely pot-holed roads, etc.  
 
Me and the sweetie were talking about this last night - does anyone offer classes or guidelines on how to ride safely in traffic?  This might be a great project for MassBike, and I bet there is grant money for it somewhere.  A lot of it boils down to "when in doubt - take the lane" but I'm sure there could and would be more to it than that.  The sweetie has done a lot less city riding than me so she ends up asking me for survival tips a lot.  I bet a lot of people are in a similar situation and a well promoted class would help avoid accidents like this one.  
 
> > Maybe Massbike could compile a list of known, dangerous streets for> bicyclist to avoid, or at least be aware of. That would be the best help> they could give for now. We have a wealth of knowledge here that needs to> be dispersed before another tragedy occurs. I took Massbike's safe biking> course but found their insistence that city biking is safe a little> detached from reality. Bicycle safety is not as simple or easy as> following a few road rules. Not acknowledging this is very irresponsible.> We don't need to let another person to find out the hard way which> streets are unsafe.> 
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