Safety on two wheels

The place where I feel least safe in Bellingham is riding my bike. I want to use my bike for transportation because it aligns with my personal environmental values, and it helps my city by not contributing to pollution, reducing the need for parking, and so much more. I appreciate the work that Bellingham has done with bike infrastructure, and we need more. I’d like to see a connected network of protected bike lanes throughout Bellingham so that people of all ages and abilities see biking as a valid transportation choice. Riding with cars is a choice only a few of us will make, and even so, I don’t feel safe doing so.