The article mentions that bicycle deaths are up sharply. I imagine that this must be true, given the fact that more people are cycling, and that a lot of those new cyclists have little or no experience riding in traffic, but are there any hard statistics to back this up? Here in Seattle, I don't get the impression that tons of cyclists are getting run down on a regular basis; in fact, I'd venture to say that the increase in ridership has possibly even made things safer, because drivers encounter bicyclists often enough now to know how to deal with them.