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HOW DANGEROUS IS CYCLING? DEPENDS ON WHICH NUMBERS YOU EMPHASISE.
On 5/16/2019 1:10 AM, jbeattie wrote:
Without getting into the prudence of an adult MHL, I could see a MHL causing significant drops in certain populations. Perhaps, but that's not what happened in Australia. In fact numbers went up right after the MHL, just not as fast as the population increase. When that fact was noted, the AHZs insisted that the reason that cycling numbers went up slower than the population growth was because of the MHL--even when the data didn't support their premise they simply created a rationalization to excuse the actual data. Of course that was of little importance since when the actual data doesn't support their position they just fabricate data to suit them. If traffic is no so bad that you really need to ride a bike, then people with a "live free or die" or "don't muss my hair" or overheat my head mentality may not ride -- assuming there is any real effort to enforce the law. In Amsterdam, people would probably just ignore the law, and there would be no change. In the London scrum, they may comply because driving is impossible and riding is objectively dangerous. In Portland, compliance is pretty high already and enforcement would be nil, so there would be no change. It really depends on the population. I don't see any reason why the drop in Australia couldn't be "real" as opposed to or the result of some confounding factor. Entire populations can become entrenched on some relatively minor issues. Tomorrow we kick off construction of some protected bike lanes near a high school. These are real protected bike lanes, not some widely placed pop-up bollards. While I would be thrilled to get the increase in cycling that they saw in Columbus Ohio (75%) http://www.dot.state.oh.us/engineering/OTEC/2017Presentations/72/Moorhead_72.pdf I'd be happy with just 15%. The fact that we're doing real protected bike lanes will hopefully mean that we see less of an increase in non-fatal crashes than Columbus saw. |
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