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The scariest things about the death of Alice Swanson are that she was on a street that is generally full of traffic — that is, a place with a predictable flow of slow-moving cars — and that the street has a marked bike lane. R Street is not what I would have thought of as a high-risk area.
— Moira E. McLaughlin, writing on bicycle awareness and safety in the city in the wake of the tragic bicyclist fatality near Dupont Circle.