KSI in London going up

[benb]

Interesting and worrying blog post.
http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2011/11/cycle-casualties-in-london-increasing.html

 

[Bigsharn]

It was inevitable though, with the amount of cyclists on the road increasing there were bound to be more accidents (for the moment at least). It's the same as there being more accidents involving red cars... due to there being more red cars on the road

 

[ferret fur]

But...I thought the whole "Don't wear helmets because it puts people off cycling and so the accident rate goes up" was predicated upon the idea that the more cyclists there were, the more drivers got used to them & so the rate would go down. I don't understand it!!

 

[benb]

It was inevitable though, with the amount of cyclists on the road increasing there were bound to be more accidents (for the moment at least). It's the same as there being more accidents involving red cars... due to there being more red cars on the road

No, it's the rate per million km travelled that's gone up, not just the absolute number.

But...I thought the whole "Don't wear helmets because it puts people off cycling and so the accident rate goes up" was predicated upon the idea that the more cyclists there were, the more drivers got used to them & so the rate would go down. I don't understand it!!

Have a look at some of the murderous junctions that TfL have decided are appropriate, and you'll understand.
It's telling that the rates in the rest of the country are decreasing.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

No, it's the rate per million km travelled that's gone up, not just the absolute number.



Have a look at some of the murderous junctions that TfL have decided are appropriate, and you'll understand.
It's telling that the rates in the rest of the country are decreasing.

I'd agree with your point about TfL's worship of their sacred ''traffic flow'' at the expense of forms of transport that don't block the roads of space.

But there's another problem: we have a lot of rogue construction lorries down here. If we were to subtract the number of cyclist fatalities involving tipper trucks, cement trucks and Thames Materials lorries, there's a good chance that our regional fatality rate would not look half as bad. But who's going to bring the construction trade's vehicles into line? At present, they're getting away with murder.