It would be some small comfort to those who mourn Jane Bishop to know that her death spurred some action on making city streets safer for cyclists.
Bishop died in November 2010 after falling under a truck on Tamaki Dr after her cycle struck Glenn Becker, who had just opened his car door.
Bicycling greenways — networks of residential roads that are outfitted with speed bumps, landscaped curbs that make portions of a street narrower, or stop signs to give cyclists and pedestrians priority over cars — have become a political selling point for Proposition 1.
For several years, Seattle has painted bicycle lanes or icons on nearly all major streets, in hopes of encouraging people to ride.
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