Originally Posted by
madpogue
About 10 years ago, a young enthusiast cyclist was killed on one of the rural roads commonly used between these two points, by an inattentive driver. Made the news, and caused a buzz in the "community". But didn't push any buttons wrt. progress on this last link :shrug:
Hah! We win; it only took one stupid cyclist death to get rumble strips on our highways. One clear afternoon a distracted driver managed to cross two lanes and a 10 ft. wide shoulder to hit the only thing in the area; Greg Jennings, a popular local bicycling advocate and bike commuter, who was lit up like a Xmas tree and riding AFRAP. The cycling community, shocked and outraged, asked CalTrans why we didn't have at least rumble strips. CalTrans basically shrugged and said, 'You never asked.'