They loved bicycling and lived bicycle lives.
Their names are Riley O'Neil, who worked on bicycle safety issues for the City of Chicago's Department of Transportation, and Louisa Gag, a Boston Transportation Department planner who worked on road planning designed to stop car drivers from striking bicyclists and pedestrians.
Both were killed while bicycling in their home towns where they tried to make roads safer for bicyclists.
On June 5, the 35-year-old O'Neil was killed while bicycling in the Chicago area where he was doored by a motorist and then mortally wounded by a truck driver who struck O'Neil in the road.
Today July 9, more tragic news struck when the 36-year-old Gag was killed while bicycling in the Boston area at 8:19 AM.
These bicyclist deaths are brutally heartbreaking and upsetting to hear. These were people trying to make a difference in making roads safer for bicyclists.
Also last month, University of California at Irvine climate and earth science professor Francois Primeau, 60, was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Santa Ana in Orange County, California June 19.
It saddens me to know these bicyclists were killed while living lives devoted to making our roads and planet a better place.
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