I am deeply saddened that another bicyclist in Boston has died after colliding with a motor vehicle (“Bicyclist dies in crash in city,” Metro, Dec. 7). As someone who walks along Massachusetts Avenue in the South End to get to work each day, I have seen several near-collisions between bicyclists and drivers. In a city often choked with traffic, both groups need to show more courtesy to one another.
For drivers, this means doing things such as using turn signals. For bicyclists, this means doing things such as avoiding thoroughfares during rush hour.
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The police blocked the intersection for hours, standing around staring at the ground and playing at their version of CSI, but surely must have come to some conclusions about who was at fault. Did they? Apparently not. In this case, the bicyclist would appear to have been going too fast and not paying attention to potential hazards. The fact that he failed to notice a huge truck making a turn would tend to support this theory. This not a matter of blaming the victim; as much as the loss of this life is tragic, the blame does not necessarily fall upon the truck driver. Careless bikers need to remember that while they can see cars, trucks and buses, those drivers can’t always see you. This whole section of Comm ave. is one to be avoided for a number of reasons. These include B.U. students jaywalking, bicyclists flouting the traffic laws, and drivers trying to make sense of the traffic patterns and lights.
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