{"id":316983,"date":"2025-10-19T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:59:09","slug":"philly-bike-action-holds-picnic-in-honor-of-rider-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316983\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Bike Action holds picnic in honor of rider killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holtmeyer said riders often use the park as a shortcut to avoid the four-lane freeway next to it, and added he believes the road shouldn\u2019t be for driving, but for people and recreation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should never have streets designed, especially in a park, where people can achieve speeds of 50, 60, 70 miles an hour \u2026 and kill people,\u201d Holtmeyer said. \u201cThis is definitely a problem of this road being too wide and too straight. There\u2019s nothing to slow anybody down.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>At least 41 people have been killed in car crashes in or near the popular park, according to data collected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/viewer?mid=1aJWiICNgha0GE9A0k2_X8PPXhli9cP0&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=39.98663637559187%2C-75.20279700000002&amp;z=14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philly Bike Action<\/a>. Suzanne Hagner, a member of Families for Safe Streets, said it\u2019s heartbreaking when families lose a loved one, but Sunday\u2019s event showed there is strength in community when working toward the same goal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have younger people who ride bikes,\u201d Hagner said. \u201cThey have children, and the children are out at 2 years old on balance bikes. They\u2019re going to be kids who are riding big bikes soon. We have to make our streets safer.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>Calls to improve safety for pedestrians and bikers have been longstanding in Philadelphia. But there has been a renewed effort for safer streets following Fenton\u2019s death and the death of CHOP doctor <a href=\"https:\/\/billypenn.com\/2024\/07\/19\/philadelphia-cyclist-killed-pedestrian-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Friedes, after she was fatally struck<\/a> by a speeding drunk driver in Center City last year.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holtmeyer said riders often use the park as a shortcut to avoid the four-lane freeway next to it,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":316984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,51149,159187,5302,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-316983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-bicycle","tag-bike-safety","tag-bikes","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115403080728104483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}