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Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway
On Oct 22, 12:23*am, wrote:
"Serious incidents are defined by TfL as those where a cyclist may have required treatment, including in hospital. There was one serious incident involving a cyclist in each of the years 2005/06 and 2006/07, and two in 2007/08." http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/as...t15/minutes/wr itten_answers.pdf In other words, the data collated by TfL and accepted by the mayor clearly shows that bendy buses are not dangerous for cyclists. Those figures read dangerous to me. How many bendies are there and how many accidents involving other buses are there, and how many of them are there? Hmm. There were 819 serious cyclist accidents in 07/08, so bendies are responsible for a whopping 0.25% of the total. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...les/article.do Breaking accident rates down into bendies versus regular buses doesn't really make sense, as a) the figures are so low they'll be massively skewed by noise and b) bendies are used on the busiest routes in the centre of town. I hate bendies because they are just too long to mix with other traffic. Based on what evidence? -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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