Bikemore

It's the last day of session, Sine Die. This morning we rallied with transportation and environmental advocacy organizations from across the state demand the Maryland Senate pass the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act (HB 437/ SB 59) before midnight.

On March 12th, 28 year old Daniel Davis was killed riding a scooter just south of Orleans Street on North Collington Avenue when he was hit by the driver of a box truck.

Daniel worked at MyBGE and was a colleague of our board member Kyle Harrer. He loved biking and frequently rode his bike to work.

We are joining Baltimore Families for Safe Streets in honoring Daniel and other victims of traffic violence at a vigil on Tuesday, March 31st at 6pm at the intersection of Orleans Street and North Montford Avenue, where we will demand safer street designs to save lives.

Box trucks are a frequent killer of vulnerable road users. In addition to better designed roads, Bikemore and Baltimore Families for Safe Streets advocate for affordable design improvements to vehicles. Direct vision cab design dramatically improves visibility. Intelligent speed assist limits speeding. Vehicle side skirts and blind spot monitors with pedestrian detection are available as options on many new trucks, and are affordable retrofits to existing vehicles.

Traffic violence is not an accident. It is a systemic public health crisis that we have the power to solve through changes to street and vehicle design.

Please join us to remember Daniel and all those we have lost, and help us fight for a vision of zero deaths on our roadways.