Concrete-protected bike lanes might soon be a reality for Center City streets, after months of outcry from bicyclists in the wake of a crash that killed a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia doctor .
The city’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) will go public later this month with a plan to add additional protection, including concrete, for bike lanes on Pine Street and Spruce Street, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, an advocacy group, told CBS News Philadelphia.
BCP and other groups have called for years for concrete barriers to protect the bike lanes along major corridors like Pine and Spruce – where in July, Dr. Barbara Friedes was riding her bike when police said a speeding driver entered the bike lane and struck and killed her .
Friedes might have survived had the lane been obstructed from vehicle traffic by a barrier, cyclists have said.