CTC - Safety in Numbers Doc

[summerdays]

There is plenty of evidence from around the world to show that the more cyclist there are on the roads the safer they are and that when there is a drop in the numbers of cyclist on the roads, the rate of fatality for cyclist increases. There are two reason:
1) the more cyclist there are the more used drivers to encountering them
2) the more likely drivers are to be cyclist too, and so have a better attitude to them.

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[Origamist]

The saftey in numbers effect is disputed in more detail here:

http://www.johnforester.com/Articles/Social/Numbers vs Safety.htm

 

[summerdays]

That link takes me back to stats ... its a bit too mathematical for me... though I do remember correlation and causation (sort of).

 

[dellzeqq]

it isn't difficult. Cyclists are not mugs. If you make the roads safer, then more people will cycle. That's what TfL did. The more people cycle, the more will join them. The more cyclists there are the more respect they get. That's what's happened. The attitude of drivers on the A24/A3 between Tooting Broadway and Kennington is clearly different from the attitude of drivers on the A320 on their way to Woking. The CTC may be compressing two or more factors in to one, but a moment's thought beyond the limited perspective of the numbers would lead you to the same conlusion - make the city more convivial for cyclists, and cycling will be safer. Nobody is suggesting that if you put more bikes on any given road it will become safer on the instant.

 

[upsidedown]

I suspect the Danes don't have a word for 'Corsa driving chav'

or 'Self-appointed 4x4 driving king of the road'

or 'Lazy-arsed police force'

Which is why lots of people cycle there.