Comments for The Moyle View http://kenneth.moyle.ca/blogs/moyleview Marginalia without margins Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:22:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Cycling is made dangerous by attempts to render it safe by George Geczy http://kenneth.moyle.ca/blogs/moyleview/?p=111#comment-40 George Geczy Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:22:54 +0000 http://kenneth.moyle.ca/blogs/moyleview/?p=111#comment-40 The CBC interviewed the British junior transport minister a few weeks back, about the fact that he rode to work all the time but refused to wear a helmet. Among other points he made, he also commented that the insistence on helmets and other safety measures made cycling appear more dangerous than it really is, thereby discouraging people from cycling, when in fact even without a helmet it was a safer form of transport than driving. I also like his line “Well I’m a minister for cycling, and I set an example by cycling. I’m not actually the safety minister" The CBC interviewed the British junior transport minister a few weeks back, about the fact that he rode to work all the time but refused to wear a helmet. Among other points he made, he also commented that the insistence on helmets and other safety measures made cycling appear more dangerous than it really is, thereby discouraging people from cycling, when in fact even without a helmet it was a safer form of transport than driving.

I also like his line “Well I’m a minister for cycling, and I set an example by cycling. I’m not actually the safety minister”

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