Aussies, helmets and driving

A couple of people said that Angie Lee was wrong when she stated that the
drop in cycling in Victoria, Australia was due to a reduction in the driving
age.

I asked for a bit more data from Those Who Know and got the following reply:

"The driving age limit was reduced from 18 to 17 in Victoria only (no other
state) shortly before the helmet law. But at the time 17-year olds accounted
for only 6% of total travel. Even if every cycling 17 year old had changed
to motoring, it couldn't possibly explain falls in cycle use amongst
teenagers of 43% in Victoria and up to 60% in other states."

So now we know. She wasn't lying, just distorting the facts and
exaggerating the percentages - which is, I guess, par for the course for a
helmet compulsion campaigner.

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Guy
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:41:03 +1000, Alan Hutchison
wrote:

See
http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrne/...cument&Area =[Learners+]

You are being bluffed by a shreiking extremist.

The bluffer in this case was not the shrieking extremist, but someone
we all apparently hold in high regard [names concealed top protect the
innocent]

However, the link says it all. So she was lying ;-P

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"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message
...
A couple of people said that Angie Lee was wrong when she stated that the
drop in cycling in Victoria, Australia was due to a reduction in the
driving
age.

I read the debate(?) in the Chronicle; what I found worrying was that both
Lee and some other correspondent seemed to putting across the messages that

1) cycling is only for children
2) cycling is declining anyway.



Alex

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:27:49 +0100, "Mr R@t \(2.3 zulu-alpha\) [comms
room 2]" wrote:

I read the debate(?) in the Chronicle;

Please pile in, then. The more the merrier.

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:29:58 +0100, "Tony W"
wrote:

Please pile in, then. The more the merrier.
I did -- not published though -- as far as i can tell from their crappy
website.

They reach the website about a week after the paper is published I
think.

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