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@skydancer
There are shoots of understanding in London which accounts partially to the increase in bike riding . This is wel understood by many at TfL. Though boris traffic smoothing agenda flies in the face of what some of his own people understand. The answers are not too complex or hard to implement. Main one is simply accepting lower speeds across the board that would lead to many fewer desths and injuries.
Just reading traffic by Tom Vanderbuilt. Seems that the same number of people killed on 7/7 bombing where killed in the 3 months following that on the roads by drivers, and will die every 3 months more or less yet transport police have been taken to anti terrorist squads.
The perversity of the recent IAM poll about rljing is another example of completely squewed understanding of who does the harm. Many many more people are harmed by poor, lazy, aggressive illegal sloppy and unnecessary driving and when asked most drivers rate themselves as above average.
We tolerate this death and injury, blight and misery, pollution and disease caused by people who choose to drive because that's what most people do. It's normal. We get effective but novel one off events much more than the ongoing blood on the tracks