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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

Ben Keith 🎃
@benlk.com

Here, have a study which says that bicyclists are faster at a common driving skill than only-drivers: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28732320/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govDo cyclists make better drivers? Associations between cycling experience and change detection in road scenes - PubMedEfficient processing of visual information is crucial to safe driving. Previous research has demonstrated that driving experience strongly affects attentional allocation, with large differences between novice and experienced drivers. Expanding on this, we explored the influence of non-driving experi …

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