Emily Fredricks, a pastry chef, was hit by a trash truck turning right from Spruce Street onto 11th Street in Center City as she biked to work on Nov. 28, 2017. Her death was a flash point for advocates concerned about street safety in Philadelphia, and in the months since, new attention has been paid to the safety of the city's bicycle lane network. Among the city's initiatives that the family supports are a policy to shift bike lanes to the left side of streets, where cyclists are less likely to fall into vehicles' blind spots, and upgrades that put up physical dividers between vehicle traffic and cyclists.