The lack of safe road infrastructure is a human-made problem. If you build a road through a house, you can’t get mad at the house when a car crashes into it. Previously, between 2019 and 2023, car crashes killed nearly 300 people and injured another 47,000, according to city data. I am also a proud member and current president of the Bike Easy Board of Directors. Elyse Bejasa is president of the board of directors for Bike Easy, which works to make bicycling easy, safe, and fun for everyone in Greater New Orleans.