Interestingly - except for a few marked exceptions - there is no Right on Red within NYC city limits, mainly due to the prevalence of pedestrian traffic.
this junction has been laid out as best it can to mitigate the dangers, with the bike lane set out to allow right-turn traffic to focus on the pedestrian crossing... it seems to work well enough the few times I have used it.
I guess it remains to be seen where & how this gent was passing through it when he was hit. Curious to find out if he was indeed in the bike lane, and the USPS driver made a hard, illegal right from the center "straight ahead" lane
Originally Posted by
cudak888
Struck by a "truck." No, struck by the
driver of that truck. "Attempting to make a right turn" - as if looking for riders before making the right turn qualifies as an "oopsie."
I'll bet anything the NYPD, per their endless track record, will let the driver off without a slap on the wrist, and will blame it entirely on the rider.
Let's not forget the very first CitiBike death, where the NYPD invented their own victim blaming story to hang fault on the rider - only for video footage to show that the rider had been killed because the driver of a bus passed when it wasn't safe and with zero clearance, squishing the rider into a parked car.
Also, I'm not sure if this was a right turn on red scenario, but - nevertheless - let's take this opportunity to remember that ROTRs are a uniquely dangerous (for both people on bicycles and people walking) excuse of traffic engineering invented
ONLY for the purpose of saving gas during the 1970's fuel crisis, at the expense of everyone else's safety. It was not even adequate at saving fuel.
https://twitter.com/iWalkSafe/status...84677897244672
and
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/05/...-turns-on-red/
-Kurt