Tim Courtney is with a group called the "Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team." He said they formed the group to raise awareness about pedestrian and cyclist death and planned this vigil to highlight what happened and call for safety changes.

"We need traffic calming safety improvements on our streets and we need that now, soon," said Courtney. "Not five years from now ten years from now whatever. We need it done before another person is killed by a driver."

“I stopped in the gap between cones to keep the space safe for people and waited for her to pass,” Courtney said. “When she yelled, ‘You’re the f—ing white people that should die’ while behind the wheel and then sped off recklessly, I couldn’t let it slide. That demands accountability.”

"In order to truly achieve Vision Zero [...] we need to make it impossible to drive fast and recklessly,” bicyclist and community advocate Tim Courtney said. “The way to do that is with physical infrastructure and safe-street design, including concrete and separated, protected bike lanes.”

“From the outside these may almost look like two different companies at work: Industry Leader Lego is a blockbuster machine, with Friends, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings. Meanwhile “Quirky Startup Lego” expands the public’s notions of the brand with ReBrick, Architecture, Life of George, and Cuusoo. At the core though, they’re both motivated by the same two things; first, encouraging play and creative expression by as many people, in as many ways, as possible.” - Tim Courtney, LEGO IDEAS

Tim Courtney sat down with Glen Wadleigh, a top contributor to LEGO Cuusoo, at SXSW Interactive 2013 to be interviewed on his blog and answer pressing questions from community members.