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Footpaths are for pedestrians – not cyclists

Mike Crowhurst: Garforth, Leeds, LS25
20 May 2011
 

Roger Geffen of the CTC makes much of the bald data on pedestrian fatalities, as cycling campaigners inevitably do, but in doing so misses a few obvious points.

First, it should surprise nobody that more pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles than by bicycles. For a start there are (for better or worse) far more motor vehicles about than bikes. And a motor vehicle is a far more lethal weapon than a bicycle. But that is not the point.

One needs to ask why the vehicles or cyclists come to be on...

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