SUV driver kills bicyclist on Memorial Drive bike path

Should we start a pool? Will he do no time? Or no time?

Post-crash photos clearly show the collision happened on the Mem Drive overpass near the BU boat house. Why does the parent comment have 67 likes?

Where we only make even the most half-assed changes when someone is killed.

The sea of pavement there is an abomination. They made the change a few years back with the little bike ramp which is certainly better than the nothing that was there before, but then figured "that's fine, all set" and walked away from it. This was a disaster waiting to happen, and it happened.

The DCR could, should and must:

* Merge the through lanes of Memorial Drive across the bridge into a single lane which feeds into the left lane of Mem Drive east.
* Have the ramp lane feed into the right lane of Mem Drive east
* Put in physical barricades (those temporary plastic water things are fine) to channel traffic away from the "sea of pavement"
* Restrict left turns onto Vassar (to reduce crossover traffic there)
* Harden the corner at the BU rotary to make cars slow way down.
* Change a couple of signals there (one of which dates to when there was a slip lane there 15 years ago)

This took me like 15 minutes. Something might happen, because, as usual, we only make changes when someone dies. (Se the end of the Harvard Bridge in Boston: everyone knew it was a shitshow, but it took a truck killing someone to fix it, although in DCR's defense, the signal separation at the Cambridge end didn't require a death, although that was mostly MassDOT and DCR took months to actually fix their signals)

Better yet shut down Memorial Drive and turn it back into park land. We’ve let homicidal drivers ruin the riverfront long enough.

Will literally had a job where he was supposed to sit and watch TV. He was too lazy and bragged under his own name about not doing the job.

If it's harder than watching TV, Will has no room to complain.

Every aspect of roads, safety, and running a government in any way, really, is harder than watching TV.

That’s what cops are for. But they refuse to do their job and enforce traffic laws.

A board member will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.

Strip the Division of Cars and Roads of roadways.

They have proven that they cannot do the job. They don't listen to local governments, either.

Time to have them do their job description - RECREATION and CONSERVATION. Hand the roads to DOT.

Meanwhile, all officials involved with any design should be required to navigate their designs on foot and using a wheelchair in the summer and in the winter without prior announcement. MBTA officials should be randomly assigned commutes without cars on a regular and random basis starting and ending within 1/2 mile of a MBTA terminus. One of these each year should involve using a wheelchair.

I think we would see a lot of changes if people involved with designs were required to navigate their own obstacles and had to learn the hard way that half assed "accomodation" is not good enough.