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The League of American Bicyclists, notes Sadow, gives Louisiana "good marks when it comes to laws and policies that support bicycling safety. … But while the legal environment promotes safe biking, the state fails to follow through in other ways. Louisiana ranks below average on evaluation and planning and on education and encouragement, and its infrastructure and funding efforts don’t impress the League. Some of the lowest scoring comes in spending, both in use of federal transportation money to create safer biking and willingness to integrate cycling into designing and building."<ref name=sadow>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_69c29f26-8053-11e8-909c-8bb1cac58d21.html|title=Amoroso's death highlights need for needs better bike safety enforcement in Louisiana|author=Jeffrey Dennis Sadow|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 7, 2018|accessdate=July 9, 2018}}</ref> Sadow said too that while "money matters ... altering attitudes best addresses this problem. Simple, inexpensive behavioral change can prevent senseless, needless tragedies like that which befell Amoroso."<ref name=sadow/>

The League of American Bicyclists, notes Sadow, gives Louisiana "good marks when it comes to laws and policies that support bicycling safety. … But while the legal environment promotes safe biking, the state fails to follow through in other ways. Louisiana ranks below average on evaluation and planning and on education and encouragement, and its infrastructure and funding efforts don’t impress the League. Some of the lowest scoring comes in spending, both in use of federal transportation money to create safer biking and willingness to integrate cycling into designing and building."<ref name=sadow>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_69c29f26-8053-11e8-909c-8bb1cac58d21.html|title=Amoroso's death highlights need for needs better bike safety enforcement in Louisiana|author=Jeffrey Dennis Sadow|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 7, 2018|accessdate=July 9, 2018}}</ref> Sadow said too that while "money matters ... altering attitudes best addresses this problem. Simple, inexpensive behavioral change can prevent senseless, needless tragedies like that which befell Amoroso."<ref name=sadow/>

Though it is customary in Baton Rouge to offer the council seat to the widow or widower of a deceased member, four of the five [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] members of the council voiced opposition to Denise Amoroso succeeding her husband in the position. The four favor leaving the seat empty until the special election can be held in March 2019. The council often divides, 7-5, in favor of the Republicans; a vacancy would produced 6-6 splits until the seat is filled in the spring. Parish president Sharon Weston Broome, however, has endorsed Denise Amoroso as the interim successor to her husband, and the Republican majority is expected to appoint Mrs. Amoroso. If the Metro Council cannot muster a majority to fill the seat, Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] would make the appointment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_2b5cdf8e-8487-11e8-9069-377ebeb9bcdb.html|author=Andrea Gallo|title=Anger, outrage as Baton Rouge Democrats oppose Amoroso's widow -- or anyone -- taking open seat|date=July 10, 2018|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=July 11, 2018}}</ref>

Though it is customary in Baton Rouge to offer the council seat to the widow or widower of a deceased member, four of the five [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] members of the council voiced opposition to Denise Amoroso succeeding her husband in the position. The four favor leaving the seat empty until the special election can be held in March 2019. The council often divides, 7-5, in favor of the Republicans; a vacancy would produced 6-6 splits until the seat is filled in the spring. Parish president Sharon Weston Broome, however, has endorsed Denise Amoroso as the interim successor to her husband, and the Republican majority is expected to appoint Mrs. Amoroso. If the Metro Council cannot muster a majority to fill the seat, Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] would make the appointment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_2b5cdf8e-8487-11e8-9069-377ebeb9bcdb.html|author=Andrea Gallo|title=Anger, outrage as Baton Rouge Democrats oppose Amoroso's widow -- or anyone -- taking open seat|date=July 10, 2018|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=July 11, 2018}}</ref>

 

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