If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

Why is safety based on age?

One of the young riders in my cycling club was quite able to ride around Sheffield city centre and out on major roads to Lincolnshire quite safely even back when I joined the club and she was about 13. Equally I was riding the PBP with a 74 year old guy back in 2011. He remarked how far a cry it was from rush hour traffic in his home city of Manchester. I saw him out a couple of months ago and he didn't seem to be horribly crippled or dead so I presume still able to be safe on the roads.

If Hackney PoB want to get support for segregations, one of the things they really need to do is drop this ridiculously fuckwitted notion that that the young and the old are inherently more vulnerable and fragile like a piece of fine china. Many of them are confident, capable and experienced riders. It's just shittily patronising to make these blanket assessments. Similarly there are plenty of people that fall within that miraculously safe age bracket who aren't confident, capable and experienced.

Stop this shit now, it's stupid and it makes you look stupid.

Any main route that's not safe for someone who is (say) 15 or 65 to cycle.>

Hey, I'm over 65 and I cycle on every road in Hackney and I haven't died yet - problem solved.

While we are bashing each other with obscure research I recently came across this selection showing that the increase in casualties at junctions on segregated routes cancels out the reduced casualties on links.
Danish RoadAdministration,(1994). Cyclists’ Behaviour in Urban Roundabouts, Notat 13.Danish Road Administration, Denmark.
Danish Road Administration,(1996). Trafiksikkerheds-effektenafcykelbaneribyområder (The Traffic Safety Effect of Cycle Lanes in Urban Areas). Rapport 50. Danish Road Administration. Denmark.
SWOV, (1994). Towards a sustainable safe traffic system in the Netherlands. Research Activities No.1, March 1994, pp8–9 &16. SWOV. Leidschendam.
Transport Research Laboratory, 2011. Infrastructure and cyclists’ safety (Report PPR580).

That view is also supported by Dutch cycling guru Tom Godefrooij one of the authors of the original CROW infrastructure guide