Originally Posted by closetbiker
and all that hype isn't helping as much as avoiding collisions would help.
If there was the same emphasis placed on proper riding habits, we'd be better off, but it doesn't work that way. The public wants some kind of "magic bullet" and helmets and bike lanes seem to be this for many people.
It doen't matter if they are or aren't, people just "feel" that they are.
If NYC became the States, "safest large city" because there was a crack down on all crime and that crack down wasn't a "passing fancy" but permanent, why can't they do the same thing with traffic? Why can't they refuse to let people get away with poor driving or riding practices instaed of looking for a ficticious magic bullet?
look at who benefits from motor vehicles in NYC!
Hell, they shut down a bunch of mid-town's busiest intersections to pedestrians to make the city easier to get around in by car!
It's the golden rule. The ones with the gold make the rules.