2008/4/28 David <dpawley@...>:
> G'Day,
>
> There was an article on cyclists given prominence in The Age newspaper
> yesterday Sunday 27th April
>
> (view http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/new-breed-of-rider-in-same-
> old-risk-cycle/2008/04/26/1208743326662.html)
>
> I'd be interested to know what other cyclists think or thought about it.

Pretty much gave up in disgust about half way through, shortly after
my wife threw the paper across the table with a loud "WHO WRITES THIS
CRAP". The same reworded articles seem to come out over and over
again. The part I got through could probably be summarised as "More
people are riding and thus more people get involved in collisions."
Nothing about whether the collision *rate* is increasing or
decreasing.

Lovely human-interest horror story of a guy who got hit by a motorist
turning right across in front of him, great catalogue of injuries to
convince the public just how "dangerous cycling is", the next
paragraph seems to say this shows we MUST HAVE MORE COPENHAGEN LANES.
Never quite gets to explain how the hell a separated lane, that would
allow cars to cross to turn right anyway, would be of any bloody use
at all in this case.

> Cheers
> David
Adrian