Cyclist Killed By Cement Truck On Delancey Street

via Gothamist:

According to the Local East Village, nine out of the city’s 33 most dangerous intersections for cyclists are located on the Lower East Side, not to mention Essex and Delancey being one of the most treacherous intersections for pedestrians. Tonight’s incident marks the fifth cyclist fatality in less than 60 days.

This would be concerning to me whether or not I lived off Delancey on the L.E.S., but seeing the terrible condition of the roads and the prevalence of large trucks around the area, I’m not surprised. While it’s obviously terrible when anyone gets hit, I wonder if there wouldn’t be more outcry and public reaction if the drunken idiots in the street outside Piano’s started getting mowed down instead of residents trying to get to work.

As a sidenote, it pisses me off that there’s money for installation of a limo lane and “traffic calming” measures on this already beautiful road on the UWS, when I can sit at the Thai restaurant downstairs and bet on which cars will bottom out on the massive, unavoidable pothole.