Originally Posted by
alhedges
You are entitled to your point of view, of course. And this POV will put us well on the way to decreasing the number of cyclists.
That would be numerically impossible. There are perhaps 4 or 5 of us. ('roadies' don't count) I don't meet any other people with even the slightest bit of interest in riding a bike around town.
I have absolutely NO interest whatsoever in 'advocating' the wrong kind of people causing chaos by noodling around in traffic on clunky bikes without helmets. This kind of irresponsible behavior will cause responsible bikers a major headache, and may see us legislated off the road altogether. Responsible cycling behavior has to fit the realities of the location.
30 years or so ago, Copenhagen had very few cyclists...
I'm not in Europe, so all this Euro-talk is irrelevant.