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Unleashing myself asap. I also totally forgot the rest of the country existed. Classic.
I know its safe, we know its safe, but the people we're trying to convince are alarmingly easy to please with blue paint and out-of-sight-infrastructure. Unfortunately hiding some cyclists from the cars doesn't really address the problem with cars running people over :(. Even if people are tempted out of their boxes to ride the blue quarter mile down Whitechapel in segregation, what happens when they get spat out into a road full of cars that think they shouldn't be there?
I'm all for better infrastructure, with particular attention to junctions etc. But all the new stuff I have seen appears to be more of a political vanity project than anything else. Its easier to score points with visible stuff like blue paint and kerbs than it is with new legislation or cycling proficiency, and that's why i'm sceptical.
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Cycling is already statistically very safe. In the UK, it's just a bit shit, if you let the close passing, swearing, bullying, near misses, non-misses get to you.
I want to see better cycling in the UK and I think building stuff is part of it, in big cities and towns, anyway. The stuff has to be good though. As above, I'm not sure about the bus stop bypass, but one bit of shit concrete doesn't mean all concrete is shit.