Today on my bike ride home, I saw a man wearing a neon yellow t-shirt, neon helmet with a flashing red light, two neon panniers. The shirt read (on both front and back):
“Can you see me NOW.”
Sure, it made me chuckle a bit, the sassy pointedness, knowing motorists will read his shirt, and some will laugh, some will know he’s talking about them. Some, though, may realize the more somber fact that once every few months in Boston, there is a cyclist fatality.
There’s a lot of victim blaming when it comes to cyclist-motorist collisions, which is what the man’s shirt is pointing at — well I didn’t see you, so it’s your fault.
Lez Travel 