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@Oliver Schick
Not sure which Regent's Park thread to best post this in, so this one will have to do. This has been prompted by the death of Hilda Griffiths in Regent's Park, and I've posted it in the relevant thread:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/396074/
For discussion purposes, I'm also posting it in park-related threads.
The call for speed limits for cyclists is nothing new and comes again and again, whether there have been crashes or not. It's long been considered not to be an effective measure/deterrent at all and that it would do more harm than good. It's also a distraction from the much greater number of deaths and injuries caused by drivers, who cause them despite the existence of speed limits. Reducing road danger at source is to change cyclists' behaviour, but in the sense of improving their understanding of risk. This requires constant education, of the sort that should also be available to drivers, but of course that costs more than imposing comparatively ineffective speed limits.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/royal-parks-london-speed-limit-cyclists-accidents-b1188932.html
I've also put it into a Richmond Park-related thread here:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17557270/