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Or, you know, we can do both at the same time?

Also, once police are no longer occupied ticketing motorists, I hope cyclists are prepared for actually being held accountable to laws. The police budget isn't going to refill itself.


> Or, you know, we can do both at the same time?

Or maybe we prioritise the class of vehicles responsible for almost 5 fatalities and 75 serious injuries a day[1]?

For comparison, [2] says that 30 pedestrians were killed and 1093 serious injuries involved cyclists in eight (8) years. In 416 weeks, that's less than one (1) week of car deaths (0.2% ratio) and two (2) weeks of serious injuries (0.4% ratio).

Anyone that says "we should prioritise X and 416*X the same" is either not arguing in good faith or should be nowhere near decision making.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua... - 1760 fatalities, 28044 serious injuries.

[2] https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/pedestrians-kill...

> I hope cyclists are prepared for actually being held accountable to laws

What percentage of cyclist do you think are breaking the law?

> The police budget isn't going to refill itself.

Ticketing is not the main source of revenue for policing (thank goodness)

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