Origamist
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Is cycling getting safer in Britain ?
http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-cycling-getting-safer-in-britain.html
http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-cycling-getting-safer-in-britain.html
Barbelier said:Is it just me, or did anyone else find it strange that an article titled "Is cycling getting safer in Britain?" should have a picture of 6 cyclists with not a single helmet amongst them?
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User said:I find that it's strange that someone who is living in the Netherlands thinks they're qualified to comment on whether cycling in the UK is getting safer...
Barbelier said:On the other hand high viz clothing, helmets, cycle lanes are all a positive developments.
Barbelier said:Not being negative nor do I want to start a big discussion about the merits of helmets...
User said:I travel widely - including the Netherlands...
It is clear this chap hasn't been back for a while and simply thinks he can quote statistics in a rather odd way to make his point.
Perhaps he's trying to scare the 'not that often' cyclists into thinking that Holland is the only place you can really cycle safely...
...and he just happens to be a cycle tour guide.
Origamist said:Strange - you should travel more, Reg! Have you never had a British expat bore you to death in some seedy bar in a far flung corner of the old empire drinking crappy lager and regurtitating headlines from the Daily Mail website on how shite it is to live in the UK?
This is so true.StuartG said:Treating the UK as one homogeneous transport statistic is nonsense.
snorri said:This is so true.
I don't think cycling is getting safer in my part of Britain, there are now some roads in my locality that I prefer not to cycle on. I suspect there are fewer utility cyclists too. There are so few cyclists that any cycle accident statistics would be meaningless.