From the link ...
Because cycling is not very risky. The average bicyclist – and this includes all those ones who ride in a less-than-competent manner – will travel about 4 million hours before experiencing a fatal crash. (That is equal to 456 years of non-stop cycling.) Competent cyclists will travel at least five times farther before a fatal crash. But we focus way too much on these rare crashes, instead of on the hundreds of millions of miles cyclists travel every year without incident.
I don't know how accurate these numbers are (don't care), but it does illustrate the fact that more bikes (and cars) are in use everyday and thus, more bike/car incidents are probable. It would be better to aknowledge this fact every time an accident/road rage incident/etc. happens than to immediately bring up helmet laws and other legislation.
As for increased bicycling infrastructure, it is inevitable; take the good with the bad, imho.