Money well spent!

In article ,
Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist casualties keep on rising

... because cars keep running them down.

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:05:09 +0100, Mrcheerful
wrote:

Cyclist casualties keep on rising despite a nominal increase
in their numbers on the road.


I'm sorry - but you may be incorrect there. We all know that there is safety
in numbers (as regards cycling - if nothing else)

Phil W Lee writes:

It IS putting money in the NHS.
For every pound spent on cycling by the government, costs to the NHS
go down by four pounds, and another two pounds of other savings are
made.

Reminiscent of what they've already known about in the Netherlands for
some time
(URL:http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/06/cycling-infrastructure-is-cheaper-to.html).

[...]

it will largely come from s106 funding) and is not properly
ringfenced, so (just as with the junction work in Cambridge) it will
be raided for other road schemes, just because there is some tiny
cycling element to the work being done.

Quite. A little birdie tells me that Southwark council is already
planning how to spend its Cycling Vision for London [infrastructure]
budget on non-cycling `projects'.

Hopefully the parliamentary debate on the 2nd will tear the government
a new one over both the deception and the pitifully low levels of
investment.

The phrase `the blind leading the blind' springs unfathomably to mind...

--
Mark

On 18/08/2013 15:31, Andy Watson wrote:
In article ,
Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist casualties keep on rising

.. because cars keep running them down.


because the cyclists get into stupid situations, or just kill themselves
running into stationary items, racing on the roads kills quite a few as
well. Cyclists casualties could be halved if cyclists improved their
own use of the roads.