My sole mode of personal transportation is my bicycle. I've never driven a car and I'm quite proud of it.
This blog is my place to rant and rave about cycling issues as I see them.
This is not a place for critics of integrated cycling - that conversation is over - segregation has no future - studies show it is not a safe or useful strategy, nor is it a healthy philosophy.
Friday, 7 December 2012
Researchers Say Cycling Risks Overstated
Yay!
Finally an article that doesn't equate cycling with certain death. It reports on research done by a team from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. The research even recognizes what I've argued on occasion - that motorists' tendency to use freeways skews the data in their favor.
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Thanks for the heads up on that story, Ian
ReplyDeleteIan, are British cyclists are as untrained and uneducated as those in the U.S.? I ask because if they are, imagine how much safer cycling would be with some basic bicycle driver education.
ReplyDeleteBritish cyclists are not quite as untrained as those in the US - Britain has had a system of cycling proficiency for a few decades. The National Cycling Proficiency Scheme was introduced by the Government in 1958 - it's now called 'Bikeability' - and offers school children lessons, but it is by no means ubiquitous: as I understand it, schools sign up for it and it is offered to students who volunteer to learn. It's basically like the LAB courses in the US. Although the system was around when I was in school, I never even heard of it.
DeleteOops. I guess I've answered this three times now. LOL.
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ReplyDeleteBritish schools do have cyclist education, but when I was a kid, I missed out on it because it wasn't at every school - it was purely voluntary. Not sure how it is nowadays - I suspect it's more common, but by no means ubiquitous. I'm sure a much larger percentage of British kids than American kids get some integrated cycling education. Of course, that's not hard to accomplish, since there appears to be no cycling education whatsoever for US kids.
ReplyDeleteThe British cycling program is called 'Bikeability'. From what I understand, it's much like the Cycling Savvy or LAB cycling course, but it's aimed squarely at kids.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dft.gov.uk/bikeability/