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@AidanR like all these things though "how it's coded" is a lot of it - IIRC it's "involved in" with those figures. That may be mostly correct but we can't be sure (and the cycling numbers are so low that the stats may need care). More to the point would be "who kills who *where* / doing what". That might point towards eg. making some of the changes seen in NL around minimising interactions between different modes as the speed / mass difference goes up. I've never found the source but IIRC some stat about KSIs from cyclists being more common at junctions has been raised here. Also something done quite differently in NL (and they may have figured so we can check).

Hopefully Active Travel England take a very careful look at what they apply for in the future. Unfortunately this is a "hurts us more than it hurts you" as AFAICS all they can do is not approve future funding, which of course will likely mean cycle infra doesn't happen. Or it does - but via a "council inventing it here" version of "ineffective or dangerous stuff, spread thin". On which "advisory cycle lane" sounds like they're already on it...

@Secret_squirrel *ought* to be ... But IIRC other enterprising local authorities have found ways to reframe "active travel" to include things like buses * or indeed divert it to (at least partly) help the poor motorist. (Potholes anyone?) * eg. Not to divert money here but as a fudge to apparently cover up a drop in funding - see Edinburgh campaign group Spokes' article "ScotGov draft budget 26/27: Active Travel obfuscation"

@Rendel Harris the stats per billion miles travelled are surprisingly close for cars and LGVs compared to bicycles - much more so than I would have thought. Stripping out motorway miles, cars have 2.5x the pedestrian kill rate per mile travelled than bicycles, and LGVs are a little lower at 2x. HGVs and motorcycle rates are 10x bicycles, and buses and coaches are by far the worst at 27x. Stats are from DfT over a 5 years period, and I used AI to help so this quickly (although I did it myself a few years back and got similar results IIRC).

Mind boggling that active travel funding can be used to downgrade a route.

@lawrence18uk Bet you a Euro if he'd been hit by a car and tried to ban all cars from Como he wouldn't have succeeded. The cases are not comparable, cars in the UK kill 1750+, seriously injure 25,000 and injure 125,000, whereas cyclists injure a tiny proportion of that, even when adjusted per capita or mileage, so the reaction against cars is not an excessive reaction whereas the one against bicycles is and nearly always is supported by "I was nearly hit" or "I got bumped". Apples and oranges.

Re "mayor Rapinese who ... announced a ban on all bicycles in the historic centre of Como, after he was hit by the rider of an ‘electric bike’ ". We must remember that it is people being hit or fearing being hit by cars that caused them to call for banning them from many town centres. We can understand this fear and therefore, responding to this particular excessive reaction, we must understand its cause.

Re Seixas at Lombardy. It was an absolutely brilliant performance by the young man! He seized his opportunity to make the break and never looked like getting caught. A brilliant talent and an hopefully lots of exciting racing to come from him in the future as he develops.

@Dodonline Hard to say without seeing the crash but it looks most likely that the wheels have not had any undo force applied to them. From the way the forks have bent and one leg has broken I'd guess that the motorcycle went over a point higher up in the frame around the fork crown, so the only pressure on the wheels would have been around the thru-axle as a pivot point; thru-axles are deigned to withstand around a tonne of force before failure, whereas I believe (willing to stand corrected of course) carbon forks can't withstand that level of force, particularly when experiencing aside impact, so they would be most likely to snap before the axle did.

Those must be strong wheels to have not broken before the frame!