Lessons learned from generating Boston’s first report on bicycle injuries

HICRC’s Dahianna Lopez worked with the Boston Police Department, with help from bicycle advocates, to produce Bostn’s first cyclist safety report.  The report highlighted issues and areas where polices could help, and the city responded–furnishing taxis with stickers to prevent ‘dooring,’ adding pavement markings at trolley tracks to decrease the likelihood that cyclists would get their wheels lodged in the tracks, and targeting particular intersections for increased enforcement.  The article “Generating a city’s first report on bicyclist safety: lessons from the field” by Dahianna Lopez and David Hemenway was published in the journal Injury Prevention.