I'm not sure how much I agree with the rest of what you're saying, but
this is an important point. The best way to make bicycling safer
is to increase the number of bikes on the road, therefore making
vehicles and other cyclists more aware of them. I don't know the
numbers but I'd bet that in places where bicycles outnumber cars on the
road, the number of traffic accidents (especially fatal ones) is much
fewer.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">turtle</b> <<a href="mailto:turtle@zworg.com">turtle@zworg.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's unfortunate that so much of the<br>effort in bicycling advocacy is spent on promoting (usually substandard<br>and dangerous) special bicycle facilities, and so little is spent on<br>making sure that people know that bicycles are vehicles and have the
<br>same rights on the roads as everyone else.<br></blockquote></div><br>