Of those, 92 involved pedestrians, or 41 fewer than the year before, while 19 involved cyclists, or two more than the year before.
If two football fans were dying every week, or two cyclists were dying once a week, everyone would go crazy but when two women die, they don't.
It is difficult to walk 20 blocks in Manhattan without encountering one or two cyclists who prefer dodging pedestrians to dodging trucks -- often doing so, in my experience, with a serious attitude of entitlement.
"There were one or two cyclists lobbying for a designated cycle lane on the bridge, which I don't think we will be able to accommodate, but we're still looking at the detailed design.
Typically, one dozen or two dozen cyclists die each year in collisions with motor vehicles, though last year 34 cyclists died, the highest figure in recent memory.
When the tour began, it took more than twenty minutes for all of the eighteen thousand cyclists, riding ten or twelve abreast, to make it past the starting point.
A three-day ride is comfortable for keen cyclists, while four or five days are better suited to families.
One or two fines and many cyclists will simply give up.
If you understand that particular perversion, you might well be a cyclist, or maybe you should be one.
Stout is an avid tennis player and cyclist, has two adult children, and lives with his wife in Palo Alto, Calif.
