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More cyclists means fewer accidents, says report

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  • #2
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    I was just about to post the link to that article - but you're already on it.
    The article is interesting but the comments below are more interesting...

    'As most cyclists I have seen have no awareness and are really smug, no wonder they get knocked off.'


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Interesting about the rating of streets A to E in terms of safety, anything like that been done here?


  • #4
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Telling people their area is more dangerous than another isn't going to encourage them to get on a bike.


  • #5
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    I strongly think we need to encourage city cycling and get cars out of the centre! So to encourage this type of cycling I also think we need to get rid of the cycling helmet for city cycling.

    I feel the only way people can accept the bike as a viable alternative is if it "interfeers" with theis life in as little a negative way as possible. I find a helmet a very inconveniant item to wear and then to have to carry with you after getting off the bike.

    So I think we need to get rid of rules forcing cyclists to wear helmets and provide secure bike parking places in town at connolly, heuston, pearse, stephen's green etc. - places people can pick up their bike after getting a bus/train into town to get them to their office or whatever.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BostonB wrote: »
    Telling people their area is more dangerous than another isn't going to encourage them to get on a bike.

    Of course not. Would help with getting a Council to move on changing a section of road though.


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  • #7
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    enda1 wrote: »
    I strongly think we need to encourage city cycling and get cars out of the centre! So to encourage this type of cycling I also think we need to get rid of the cycling helmet for city cycling.
    You should probably go to the next DCC meeting. I'm gonna wander along and join. Their recent annual lecture was really good. http://home.connect.ie/dcc/
    enda1 wrote: »
    So I think we need to get rid of rules forcing cyclists to wear helmets
    There is no rule forcing helmet use in Ireland. There is in Australia and USA.


  • #8
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    There is no rule forcing helmet use in Ireland. There is in Australia and USA.

    In France you are now obliged to wear a fluorescent jacket on your bicycle at night....


  • #9
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    The experts, who took the all-party cycling group on a tour of the unparalleled Dutch cycling infrastructure, argued that the best way to tempt people on to bikes is to portray cycling as an everyday activity, not just the preserve of young men with an assertive attitude and a wardrobe full of skin-tight DayGlo jerseys.

    hmmm... an anti-euro campaign?


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