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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/>

Coincidentally, David Nelson (born c. 1951), a member of the city council in [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]], Texas, from 1997 to 2002, and the Republican nominee for a county court judgeship in the November 6 general election, was killed in a bicycle accident on July 18 on the Lubbock-Hockley County line while he was training for a race in [[Midland]], Texas, scheduled for August 25.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20180718/public-servant-lost-nelson-family-city-leaders-mourn-long-time-attorney-judge-candidate-killed-in-crash|title="Public servant lost: Nelson family, city leaders mourn long-time attorney, judge candidate killed in crash"|author=Erica Pauda and Matt Dotray|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=July 18, 2018|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref>

Coincidentally, David Nelson (born c. 1951), a member of the city council in [[Lubbock]], Texas, from 1997 to 2002, and the Republican nominee for a county court judgeship in the November 6 general election, was killed in a bicycle accident on July 18 on the Lubbock-Hockley County line while he was training for a race in [[Midland]], Texas, scheduled for August 25.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20180718/public-servant-lost-nelson-family-city-leaders-mourn-long-time-attorney-judge-candidate-killed-in-crash|title="Public servant lost: Nelson family, city leaders mourn long-time attorney, judge candidate killed in crash"|author=Erica Pauda and Matt Dotray|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=July 18, 2018|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref>

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