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[Closed] Is cycling getting more or less dangerous?

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Interesting (and topical) article on the Beeb's website this morning.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24987425 ]Linky[/url]

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Posted : 19/11/2013 9:40 am
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No (neither or), but there seems to be an increasing number of road users who are acting dangerously. Why is this seems a more pertinent question for research and action?


 
Posted : 19/11/2013 9:52 am
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In the past 25ish years I've been commuting it hasn't changed at all.

I don't commute in London, it's all very different there..

(And where do they get those "billions of miles cycled" figures from? No-one has ever asked me, or anyone else I know about their mileage!)


 
Posted : 19/11/2013 9:55 am
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Looking at London specifically, deaths each year fluctuate between about 10 and 16 with no obvious trend. This year it is 12 so is about average.


 
Posted : 19/11/2013 10:03 am
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I think that's what I took from it - despite what we might percieve from the headline writers, this is, rather sadly, a pretty typical year. Doesn't mean nothing should be done, but it does suggest the headlines are rather overblowing the story. Which isn't news, really.


 
Posted : 19/11/2013 10:24 am
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Are there any details on other big cities,or is it only London that has seen the biggest increase in cycling related incidents ?


 
Posted : 19/11/2013 10:30 am
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I thought it was interesting that lorries are banned from London at night so there's a mad rush to get deliveries out during rush hour.

If you had to come up with a method of culling cyclists you couldn't do any better.


 
Posted : 19/11/2013 10:47 am