Save our cyclists: Clamour for flood of avoidable road deaths to be stemmed

[B’ Spokes: This is in the UK but the same attitude needs to happen here. I’ll jump to the end of the article.]
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By Cahal Milmo and Kevin Rawlinson
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Nine steps towards safer cycling
The London Cycling Campaign, which promotes safer cycling in the capital, has produced a nine-point-plan for reducing the toll of death and injury among cyclists:
* Enforce speed limits and clamp down on drivers who use mobile phones.
* Crack down on hit-and-run drivers, who account for a large portion of serious road injuries. [Note: Maryland Hit-and-run drivers are ~20% of bike/ped fatalities vs ~1% overall.]
* Introduce 20mph speed limits in all built-up and shopping areas of Britain’s towns and cities.
* Require all lorries to carry full safety equipment to help them avoid collisions with cyclists: six mirrors, sensors and safety guards. (See www.no-more-lethal-lorries.org.uk/)
* Require organisations which run lorries and other large vehicles to provide their drivers with cyclist awareness training, as already practised in four London boroughs.
* Include a "cycle awareness" section in the driving theory and practical tests
* Allocate more road space to cycling, as has been done in The Netherlands and Denmark, among other places.
* Provide all children with access to Bikeability cycle training, the current version of the Cycling Proficiency test
* Encourage less car use and more. cycling so that, as in The Netherlands and Denmark, collision rates for cyclists are reduced.

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