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The city understands that people who are new to, or haven't yet tried cycling, are afraid of cars and that the segregated lanes have the perception of being safer and that these people will feel safer on them.
We don't yet know if more people are cycling because of these lanes or if they are any safer in them.
We don't yet know if more people are cycling because of these lanes or if they are any safer in them.
With regards to making people happier, I think that we should remember that happier is not necessarily safer in an absolute sense. Instead what we should be thinking about is some acceptable combination of utility, efficiency, and safety. Although we should keep in mind that there is an abundance of evidence that people are generally really really really bad at comprehending teeny tiny numbers (as well as big ones). Consequently, if we think that cycling is basically a safe activity, we should expect most people to have biased estimates of risk.
Estimating safety effects across treatments is pretty hard around here since general cycling among adults is a small proportion of the population and rider characteristics will change. For instance, if I put a facility in place and I suddenly attract many more "slow" and/or "adult" riders, we shouldn't be surprised that the collision rate has changed.
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none of these separated facilities are really about increasing actual safety, they are about changing the non-cycling public's risk perception, in order to entice them to try cycling. When they have a bad experience on the cycle track and find out that risk perception =/= actual safety they are liable to quit cycling just as fast as they started.
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just 300,000 trips of perception in vancouver, with many more women and children making the crossing.
and safer too!
and safer too!
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over a quarter of a millon bicycling trips, 300,000 trips otherwise not taken by bike across the burrard street bridge, with significantly more women and anecdotally more children, is not something vacuous or smelly when looking at how Vancouver is redesigning its road network to better serve more Vancouverites more safely when they choose to bicycle into downtown.
Those that think those levels of increases in bicycling counts in Vancouver smell had best self examine for cranial incontinence.
Those that think those levels of increases in bicycling counts in Vancouver smell had best self examine for cranial incontinence.
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More babble about how women cyclist must be incompetent and cannot ride without feel good facilities.
Why do some hate and discredit women cyclist so much?
Why do some hate and discredit women cyclist so much?
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no, Vancouver added 300,000 bike trips in short order across the Burrard Bridge. counts indicated a significant growth in women cycling across the bridge.
Why is CBHI trying to spin road conditions that are enabling more women to ride into Downtown Vancouver into something misogynistic?
I have no predication of incompetency if a mother chooses not to ride with their children in 40mph + bridge traffic.
I do not hate cyclists, I'm actually pretty happy Vancouver has added facilities that make it much more convenient for Vancouverites to be able to ride their bikes into downtown.
Why is CBHI trying to spin road conditions that are enabling more women to ride into Downtown Vancouver into something misogynistic?
I have no predication of incompetency if a mother chooses not to ride with their children in 40mph + bridge traffic.
I do not hate cyclists, I'm actually pretty happy Vancouver has added facilities that make it much more convenient for Vancouverites to be able to ride their bikes into downtown.
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