Goodbye Toronto's Bike Culture

I was in Perth West Australia way back in the 90's when the helmet law came in. People did really stop cycling overnight.

Forgive me, anyone from Perth, but this is Western Australia, the place where in the 1980s had a worse human rights record against blacks than apartheid South Africa..? So, could we suggest that it might not be perhaps not the most "forward-thinking" of places in the world?

So should we base our fears of a mass exodus from cycling on the assumption that the UK may react the same way as certain sections of the Australian populace did?

However, that said, I'm all for smashing the couch-potato car-culture in this country and adding more of a bias towards bikes, rather than just making cyclists protect themselves better.