In one of the comments:
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And as many have already said, if you apply this ‘logic’ to children and cars, children should be banned from being in cars or near them until the age of like 25. We have just internalized that cost as collateral damage of how our society functions.
The OHSU study kind of showed the same illogical public response. You are more likely to be injured or killed in a car, but biking is somehow unsafe. The disconnect is something some of us see, but many people don’t. I think that is also largely because bicycling is still seen, by most Americans, as optional, extra, elitist, recreational and impractical on top of being unsafe.
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https://bikeportland.org/2011/01/12/rep-greenlick-says-safety-concerns-prompted-child-biking-bill-45890#comment-1703106oldId.20110113154653440
Biking in Baltimore