“Cars Kill So Many People It Staggers The Imagination” 5
Car crash carnage – Photo courtesy of Atomic Hot Links Yesterday we discussed how bicyclists are encouraged to break the law because of bad road design. Coincidentally, on the same day the Toronto Star wrote an article entitled “Lawbreaking cyclists putting everyone in danger”. The author cites a middle age woman who was riding the ...
Bad Design Leads To Bad (Scofflaw) Behaviour 9
Red bicycle light in Amsterdam – Photo courtesy of Stefan Kuschnigg In Copenhagen, traffic signals along “green wave” routes are timed to provide a constant flow of green lights to bicycles traveling at 20km/hour. Bicyclists who ride at this speed will never hit a red light all the way to the city centre. In the ...
Scofflaw Drivers Get Free Pass In Media 4
Police Radar – Trois-Rivieres – Photo Courtesy of Axel Drainville In a recent media flurry, “scofflaw cyclists” were repudiated by several outlets after prominent Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki railed against bicyclists who break the rules. What these media articles fail to mention is that virtually all drivers break the law every single day. Photo ...