This happened last year, but it's a reminder that "stray bullets" (i.e. moving vehicles) are still a danger to everyone.

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      Planned maintenance? Wind or extreme weather? Random act of god? The only thing we got is a December 2022 tweet from a guy called “Bike Lane Uprising” with a picture of a pole in the road.

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        it appears the wind also carefully scattered car debris around the stump of the lamp post in the second photo contained in that tweet. i guess it was covering its tracks, trying to throw us off its scent.

        but if u, like, need SUPER EVIDENCE PROOF to believe that, uh, cars are dangerous and run into things in the same place all the goddam time, here you go

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          Thanks for proving my point. If the video was that easy to find, why wasn’t it included in the article? Read my comments, I’m not arguing the incident, I’m arguing against shitty clickbait.

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            Now you say:

            Read my comments, I’m not arguing the incident, I’m arguing against shitty clickbait.

            Earlier you said (emphasis yours):

            No info here other than some random-ass tweet claiming there had been an accident.

            You can do better than this.

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              Yes, exactly, provide proof or it’s just a claim. That’s it. We’re circlejerking over a shitty clickbait article based off a tweet that provides no additional information. We can do better than this.

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                i… i’m not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.

                look i’m sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn’t meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but “this is clickbait” is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter–of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op’s article was published.

                at this point, i think you’re actually mad about something else. i don’t know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, “oh, thanks” and not… whatever this is.

                (ps: it’s interesting to me that you called BLU “a guy.” it feels kind of like calling the ACLU “a guy.”)

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        When this happened it was all over Chicago biking twitter. If I recall correctly there eventually emerged a video of the driver running a red light and plowing through the pedestrian island into the pole. If someone was on the pedestrian island at the time they would’ve been killed. This crosswalk has been extremely dangerous for years and there’s been lots of protests and action to try to get the city to fix it.