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I know it is important that bicycle infrastructure feels safe otherwise people will not start biking. From my own experience safety is usually not a problem, ba
by pastage 3y ago
I know it is important that bicycle infrastructure feels safe otherwise people will not start biking. From my own experience safety is usually not a problem, bakfiets are visible in traffic and the kids are obvious in most cargobikes.
My point is that the safety engineering is pretty good because the threats are so much smaller. Cars need protection because they move in very dangerous ways. Infrastructure is important because there is no way to be safe from a car crashing into you at 50mph.
- brnt 3y agoSafety engineering takes a parameter: the environment you want to be safe in. For bakfietsen, the parameter chosen clearly wasn't on kilometers of fietsstroken on through-fares where to most likely collision isn't with another bakfiets or cyclist, but with a car. And it would be very difficult to do so, without turning it into a mini-car I suppose.