Although these discussions much predated the bike-sharing programs of today, many of us long-time bike advocates have always opposed mandatory bike helmets laws. Although most of us always use them when we ride, we opposed them because we felt they would restrict or discourage bicycling by those who, for whatever reason, didn't have or use a helmet. The idea was that the key thing was to get people on bikes, thereby presumably reducing the number of people in cars and increasing safety for riders.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:02 PM, S. Morris Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > High-visibility article about the impact of mandatory helmet laws on > bike-share programs. Vancouver BC is about to step off this cliff, and it > makes me want to cry. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/sunday-review/to-encourage-biking-cities-forget-about-helmets.html > > -- > Scott M. Rose > West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > -- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
