I biked slowly passed the van (in a clear bike lane) and then about 20 seconds later after passing through a stop light beyond the accident, a police car flew in front of me, cut me off, and proceeded to park in the bike lane in front of me, making me break hard and go around him.
You'd think while the police are responding to a bike accident call they'd temporarily give a shit about our safety.
On an unrelated note, so many of Boston's driving problems can be fixed with paint. There are many miles of road surface where the lane markers have worn out and it is not clear where people should be driving. When it is not clear, each driver makes up their own rules, lanes, etc. What's worse, the places where the paint is most worn out are typically busy intersections or the rotaries they use so much, which leads to some of the most hectic driving conditions an unprepared driver can be thrown into. As a side note to this side note, I actually wonder how something like Google's self-driving cars would do in an environment like this.
The only place where I have personally seen worse driving is in Ukraine, where despite having lanes, they are typically just ignored. For example, if there are three wide lanes at an intersection, they become five very tight actual lanes.
I have dozens of stories where bikers have been hit and badly injured by cops not slowing down at intersections, trying to get around cars and driving in the bike lane and hitting bikers.
I must have struck a nerve.
I presume you mean they drive down one way streets _the wrong way_? Otherwise I fail to see the problem...?