Originally Posted by
Zaneluke
Would you ride your bike on a 50MPH road at 5am?
If I had to, I would. A cyclist (lighted and reflectored-up) is perfectly visible at night - for drivers who bother to look. 50mph roads are perfectly safe for cyclists 99.999% of the time. I am certainly not going to concede that cyclists should be banned from such roads simply because a very few cyclists are killed on them. What would be next - banning cyclists from 40mph roads? 35mph roads? Some of us have to commute on such roads - we don't get a choice not to.
A bicycle is a vehicle. It belongs on the road. If speed contributes to accidents, then the solution is to lower the speed limit and enforce it, not to remove the most vulnerable vehicles. 'Punish the victim' is hardly a workable transportation policy.