mjr wrote:The utility cyclist wrote:Shall we put this to bed straight away!
The Irish government did a study this year of all countries and found no evidence that a distance passing law has increased safety of people on bikes.
Citation requested, please.The utility cyclist wrote:Not one single countries close pass initiative with a minimum passing rule/law has worked, without continual policing and a significant change in culture including carrot and stick it simply will not work.
I'm pretty sure most of us are in favour of "continual policing and a significant change in culture"!The utility cyclist wrote:Spain, nope, since the passing law Spain has increased injuries and deaths,
Plenty of confounding factors in Spain, including hateful H&H laws and promotion. Australia's anti-cycling measures have been discussed at length in the special forum.The utility cyclist wrote:You could simply stop up thrpugh roads in towns and cities so that motorists cannot go through so have to go around and/or have strict speed enforcement via electronic devices fitted and with much lower speed limits, that would solve a lot of problems in built up areas but no politician is going to do that ever.
...that was a partly political broadcast by the defeatist party... Never say never!
Here you go.
http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Consultatio ... clists.pdf
The US investigation clearly shows distance passing laws have not helped one iota, in fact could have had a detrimental effect. You can deny the facts all you like but distance passing laws have not helped a single country improve the safety of cyclists, these are facts not personal opinion.