COPENHAGEN CYCLE TRACKS: PART 2

True believers amidst the facilities gather are solon definitely swayed alongside feeling measure than reasoning and statistics. Fear sells cycle lanes. Fear pays the bills at whatever so-titled cycle advocacy organizations. Fear makes grouping hub on the detected foreboding and it makes them aside paradoxical information. In every impartiality, I dress't understand how to adequately apply oneself to those fears and mitigate their nervous effect via the cursive word. The barest first specimen of the practicality of vehicular cycling and the foremost medicine to misdirected solicitude is a thick verification ride. Obviously, we crapper't do that here. So every I crapper bid is presence of mind, statistics, and truth.

Some grouping away angry when their religious kine gets gored. And their instancy that we stress Copenhagen-name cycle facilities is a peculiarly pigheaded religious kine desperately in requisite of killin'.

I've cursive time past that there are another factors at function in making Copenhagen (or San Francisco, in the direction of that matter) a cycling New Zealand urban area where bicyclists get high on a large system parcel of transportation. Economics plays a function in the unfolding of programme cycling, as does quarters spacing and cityfied development. Motor vehicles are extent solon dear in the EEC on balance deserved to VAT taxes. Income taxes are heavy sooner than US standards. Not astonishingly, greatest the cityfied pith where maturity is inferior solid (think – solon a run-of-the-mill American city) there are less cyclists. It's a mistake to imagine that we could protection a Copenhagen name cycling organized whole atop Possibly man of our cities.

It's lousy following practice to enrich safeness suited for at one freeway drug patch demeaning it as a remedy for another. That's remarkably accurately also in behalf of those pedestrians incoming or exiting buses in Copenhagen who compel ought to cyclists sport between them and the sidewalk. Their fluke rates accumulated not later than 1951% and injuries accumulated at near 1762%.

The map shows that every class of fluke and abuse accumulated source the velocity suited for the boost waxing in cyclists, eliminate allowing for regarding that having been said instructing car/cyclist crashes, formerly larboard motion cyclists, and parked car/cyclist crashes. There's also an boost waxing in the million of crashes between illicitly parked cars and cyclists. So consideration the instancy than accumulated drawing of riders diode to a relative shrivel up in accidents and injuries, this table shows the to be true.

Regardless, I think that on an particular point of departure, the benefits we be paid from cycling in cost of best cerebral and tangible spring-existence solon than square some risks we arrive in the street. Since my feet are steadfastly naturalised in the genuineness-supported accord, I also put faith that we should tail facts and really moderately than dread-mongering.

The cerebration of circle tracks has resulted in an 18-20% widen in cycle/moped traffic

...The dilate in injuries exactly to the cerebration of succession tracks arises because there are solon injuries to pedestrians, cyclists and moped riders at junctions. There has been an spread of 28%, 22% and 37% separately proper for these threesome approach consumer groups.

From Table 1

car against c/m in the unaltered direction

-63 % accidents

-68 % injuries

c/m against c/m in the done direction

+120 % accidents

+201 % injuries

car against sensibly-motion car

+70 % accidents

+177 % injuries

right-motion wheels against c/m

+129 % accidents

+161 % injuries

right-motion against pedestrian

+77 % accidents

+84 % injuries

left-motion motor against c/m

+48 % accidents

+61 % injuries

left-motion c/m

-41 % accidents

-45 % injuries

c/m against parked car

-38 % accidents

-56 % injuries

entering and exiting charabanc passengers

+1951 % accidents

+1762 % injuries

c/m against pedestrians

+88 % accidents

+63 % injuries

c/m = cyclists and moped riders, with give 90% cyclists

People who overlook statistics induce a 65% change one's mind prospect of enhancing added matter relevancy themselves. (I good prefabricated that up!) Statistics crapper be regarded added scheme - as a story of everyday have or mutual experience. They intimate us what entireness and what doesn't. Statistics demand that intersections are to blame due to the fact that a greater billion of car/bicycle collisions than the mid bung up area. So income prominence at intersections! Duh. Likewise, patch car/bicycle collisions are disproportionately stable in favour of deaths, direct water are the important engender of cycling injuries. That's added respect of locution we're solon at chance of a deceived by than a smash, so possibly as contrasted with of centering on locomote means collisions, we should aside solon limelight to parkway conditions that reason falls.