Subscriber Only: I don’t bike, but I’m in favor of bike lanes anyway

Bike lane advocacy should be seen as just one small part of a larger call for street transformation

Eleven years ago, I got a call that no one ever wants to get: my husband was in the hospital and had gotten into a bike accident.

I ran as fast as I could to the hospital, which thankfully wasn’t far from my office, then made it into the triage room. I had just gotten married five months earlier and my husband was on a stretcher with a rubber cast aroun…