News: Survey reveals the appeal of e-biking to work

[Pedelecs]

‘Brits are fed up of overcrowded daily commutes’ is the summation of a Shimano survey of 1000 respondents.



Differing age groups up and down the country were introduced to the idea of e-bikes as a replacement to public transport and traffic jams by the survey, which then went on to assess what’s not to love about electrifying daily journeys.

Full story: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/news/survey-reveals-appeal-e-biking-commuters/

 

[Gubbins]

Before we see any sort of mass cycling there needs to be a big shift in attitudes from everyone on and off the road .
The photo here says it all.. how at risk is that biker from the bus?

 

[flecc]

Before we see any sort of mass cycling there needs to be a big shift in attitudes from everyone on and off the road .
The photo here says it all.. how at risk is that biker from the bus?

Very little in fact, TfL buses are rarely involved in bike accidents, probably because the drivers are so used to bikes with over half a million bike commutes each day. High cab construction trucks were a much bigger problem in recent years.

Fortunately we seem to have cracked the deaths problem, it's now ten months since the last one on 23rd June 2015, something of a miracle. Most years there's 11 London cyclist deaths in any ten month period.

So where cyclist deaths are concerned, London is now by far the safest part of the UK, elsewhere still on target for about a hundred per year period. Even when our deaths were occurring in recent earlier years, the London rate was no higher than any other area pro rata.
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