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Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway
On 22 Oct, 10:56, Tom Barry wrote:
wrote: In article 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? 339 in intensive daily service, many 24 hours a day, so as John points out, given the tiny number of serious incidents there's a large margin for error - one cyclist killed by a bendy tomorrow would skew the figures enormously, which in itself suggest they aren't dangerous. The death toll of cyclists rose last year to 19, incidentally. *Lorries seem to be the big killers. *According to TfL: "Every year, more than half of all cyclist deaths on London's roads follow a collision with a goods vehicle." "In 2006, nine of the 19 cyclists who died on London's roads were involved in a collision with a goods vehicle. Provisional data from the Metropolitan Police Service for 2007 indicates that nine out of the 16 cyclists who died on London's roads last year were involved in a collision with a goods vehicle." http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...hive/7695.aspx Which is more dangerous, a type of vehicle that kills nearly ten cyclists a year or one that hasn't killed anyone in six years? The bendy replacement plans currently available*, apart from being expensive, result in far more buses on the street. *I don't think the figures of accidents per million miles are adjusted for bus capacity, in which case the replacements are actually likely to have more accidents purely because of the increased mileage (along with using more fuel and employing more drivers and generally costing more to operate). The main point is still 'who told Boris they squished cyclists, or did he just make it up?'. The vehicle that collides isn't necessarily the one that caused the collision. Maybe overtaking bendys puts cyclists in the path of lorries. Maybe people who have to walk in the middle of the road when the crossing is blocked by a bendy get hit by a motorbike. |
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