On January 1st, those with responsibility for road safety announced the “record low” rate of road fatalities in 2017. The State has a target of reducing road deaths to 124 or fewer by 2020. But no one raised one particularly anomalous figure which stuck out from the good news: cycling deaths were at their highest in a decade. We didn’t see it coming,” says Colm Ryder, chair of cycling advocacy group cyclist.ie and secretary of the Dublin Cycling Campaign. “Road safety measures work better when people feel it is right to do something rather than being compelled do something.

Source: The Irish Times May 12, 2018 04:52 UTC