I never have that far to go, my regular bar is just under two miles from my house. Sometimes I'll ride home and not see a single car on the way, I can ride in the middle of the road the whole way and be fine. I can see how that one car in an intersection can be disastrous though. I usually take side roads everywhere, but not sidewalks. They're fucking deathtraps in Miami, the quality is shitty and drivers are never looking for someone on the sidewalk, so you get cut off by a turning car much more frequently. I also don't like riding on sidewalks at night where I can't see everything on the path. I have a headlight, but even so I'd rather just be in the street. There's a path along the metrorail here that's kinda like a sidewalk and I'll take that, but I always go a lot slower there for fear of a fallen branch or sleeping hobo. I guess slowing down is probably the best idea at night.

That intersection is dangerous even in a car. I've seen the aftermath of quite a few accidents there. I would definitely stick to the sidewalk if I had to ride along Semoran, the road is too wide and cars go too fucking fast. I hate roads like that, and Florida is lousy with them. When there are 3 lanes in each direction, you'd think it'd be easy to share the road. Nope, it's worse. People just drive more recklessly on them and go too fast.

It sucks that he was killed and it sucks that he was drunk while it happened, but it's also a dangerous road to begin with. I'm not saying that the alcohol had nothing to do with it, but it's not like no one sober has ever been killed on a bike. Riding a bike in any city is dangerous, there's no denying that. So what's the greater lesson? Don't ride drunk or slow down and obey traffic laws?

I know it's all of the above, but I'm going to just pretend it was the latter so that I can still continue on in my happy land of denial.