A new report says that injury-related deaths among children 14 and under have fallen since 1994, but Canadian kids still face many hazards. Safe Kids Canada...
... Oops, I guess that makes me a Bad Father. My kids were way younger than 10 when they first took to the streets with me, as I taught them the basics of VC....
A regular cyclist I know, who is a traffic engineer, cycles on the the road regularly with his 5-yr-old son. I'm sure this will help his son become a competent...
I was just thinking -- at age six and seven I rode to school every day along British Columbia Highway #3, a major highway through the southern interior of the...
Darrell Noakes asked, about the Safe Kids Canada 2006 report and the referenced article "Improving Bicycle Safety ..." "Does anyone know of any research or...
Ready for a paradigm shift? Many motorists are allowed to operate legally with two and even three people abreast - seated side-by-side in the front or...
... Your example is not a shift in paradigm; it is a comparison of apples and oranges. While I will not dispute the lack of logic prompting jurisdictions to ...
The discussions about how much roadway width to allow cyclists, or may be taken by cyclists, are largely irrelevant to cyclists, being little more than...
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Jun 4, 2006 11:53 pm
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... Though Pennsylvania does still represent a success on this point, I believe? Yes, Mr Schubert? Ken ... mail2web - Check your email from the web at ...
In a message dated 6/2/2006 7:10:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, michael.graff@... writes: Oops, I guess that makes me a Bad Father. My kids were way...
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Jun 5, 2006 3:31 pm
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I suspect, from the name similarity, that this is a parallel of an American effort. I am familiar with the American organization from its efforts to disarm...
What concerns me about publications such as the Safe Kids report is that if they remain unchallenged in the public record, they become the de facto standard....
Hi all, One of my typically late replies follows. ... Thursday. ... ride on the road. It was my impression that children between 8 and 10 are capable of riding...
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Jun 16, 2006 2:38 pm
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Jun 18, 2006 6:23 pm
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Chainguard members, John Scott has posted many messages to this group, so I wanted to ask your help. He has been reported missing since early June, so if any ...
80% Safer = how many "times" safer? (4x, 5x,...) Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the...
Lauren Cooper (Dances...
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Jun 19, 2006 9:14 pm
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... I believe 100% safer would be the same as "twice as safe," so 80% is 1.8 times as safe. Wayne...
I think that it is as funny as if 1 + 1 = 2 got some sort of retort. As so often done here, logic/math/engineering doesn't mix well with rhetoric. Again I...
... Lauren, Here's another take entirely. Although the simple answer to your direct question is that 80% safer is 1.8 times safer, in common usage it can be...
Masterfully done and gently. Bravo. Are the hazards of bicycling comparable to those otherwise accepted in daily life? Absolutely, I believe, and less than...
There has been no news here in Davis since the original News 10 story and the same information published in Friday's Davis Enterprise, the local paper. I'll...
I'm going from Forester's figure of 80% fewer collisions for VC-trained ... accidents is five times safer than 100." So I guess my answer is that you will in...
Lauren Cooper (Dances...
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Jun 21, 2006 12:29 am
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Unless they are using language carelessly, it shouldn't be four or five times safer - it should be 1.8 times safer. The first establishes a base of 100% and...
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