On 1/4/2011 7:20 PM, Tºm Shermªn™ °_° wrote:
On 1/4/2011 8:56 AM, Duane Hébert wrote:

In Canada, the government supplies the health care (FWIW) and is
interested in anything that will reduce those costs. As long as
the medical community is convinced that helmets reduce serious
injuries, there is going to be a push to at least educate cyclists.

Too bad the medical community is not better informed.

That could be one possibility.

[...]
They (mostly the vehicular cycling enthusiasts) say the same thing about
facilities being more dangerous and reducing cycling.[...]

Only the first part is correct. More correct would be to say that
competent, experienced vehicular cyclists generally avoid facilities in
preference to the safer and faster streets and roads.


Forester says that facilities are more dangerous.