Originally Posted by kevmetric
Until you realize the significance of the number
of people riding bicycles and motorcycles colliding
with cars and trucks in the densely populated areas,
every week, some dead, some injured, some
recovering .... the issue of safety in commuting
by bike and motorbike will not show its true urgency.
Then let's see a practical solution. As I said in my previous post, most of the so-called "bicycle facilities" around here has done little if anything to actually improve safety. I don't consider cycling on the road to be particularly dangerous, but then, I've been around long enough to learn how to do it properly - can you say the same about all the other people who get killed on the roads? A reasonable number of them possibly, but certainly not all of them.
It is my opinion that some proper education for
all road users will be worth far more in the long term than any amount of money spent on "facilities".