Cycle campaigning

Yes good place to post this. Thanks

“Common law tended to pin responsibility on the person operating the heavier or more dangerous vehicle, .... so there was a bias in favor of the pedestrian.” Since people on foot ruled the road, collisions weren’t a major issue: Streetcars and horse-drawn carriages yielded right of way to pedestrians and slowed to a human pace. The fastest traffic went around 10 to 12 miles per hour, and few vehicles even had the capacity to reach higher speeds.

Sounds like a plan...

Also interesting that the author of this succumbed to talking about this subject in an inhuman way attributing responsibility the the car rather than the driver

Cars had to pass this mid-point before turning left, preventing them from cutting corners and speeding recklessly into oncoming traffic

By the end of the 1920s, more than 200,000 Americans had been killed by automobiles.
(no they were killed by automobile drivers)