Mike Barrett wrote: Somewhere...who knows where...I read or heard at a conference and my pea-brain actually retained...an interesting stat: ***For every 1% increment in mode share that bicycling attains, there is a 30% reduction in bicyclist death rates.***
I can't vouch for these particular numbers, but there is some well document reseach under the general title of safety in numbers that indicates that there is an inverse relationship between the number of people walking and bicycling and crashes. See http://www.walkinginfo.org/library/details.cfm?id=2464 fo an abstrach of the article http://www.tsc.berkeley.edu/newsletter/Spring04/JacobsenPaper.pdf for the entire article http://www.tsc.berkeley.edu/newsletter/Spring04/syntax.html for related research Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Suite 100 PO Box 2986 Madison, WI 53701-2986 608/266-6225 _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
