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Is this the right place to bust the Paris is safer myth?
Many people are trotting out the story that Paris had no cycling fatalities last year (or was it the year before).
What they mean is the City of Paris district had no cyclist fatalities, that only refers to the central area, equivalent to about one and half times the size of London's zone one.
From February 2012 to April 2013 there were no cyclist fatalities in a similar size zone around Central London. As we have been drastically reminded this month fatal crashes are statistically rare events which can come in clusters and be absent for long periods. There is no causal relationship which can be drawn from this.
My casual observation is that there is a higher density of cycle use in the central area of London than in the equivalent area of Paris. Does anyone have data on this? There is a far higher density of large construction type HGVs in London as there is very little if any high rise building allowed in the centre of Paris.