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Road Safety

Two in three commuters believe Britain's roads unfit for cycling, according to Brake survey

Road safety charity teams up with law firm to launch Cycle For Life initiative

English councils slash road safety budgets

Institute of Advanced Motorists report highlights how road safety initiatives are bearing the brunt of spending cuts

Spanish road safety film teaches drivers how to share the road safely with cyclists (+ video)

Issues highlighted include safe overtaking distances and taking cyclists into consideration at junctions

Linking road safety, growing waistlines and melting ice caps

I’ve been feeling guilty about something for over a year now and I figured it was high time I did something about it.

When I was writing news stories for road.cc I spoke to Doctor Ian Roberts, professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine about an article on the subject of road safety – this one in fact.

Road safety campaigners join forces to oppose "insane" plan to switch to two-year MOT regime

Government proposals would result in 250 more deaths on Britain's roads each year, claim opponents

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yet another sad day for cyclists

Yet again the cyclist becomes the loser. The full details are as yet unclear but the story highlights how dangerous the roads are so far in 2011. Here's the link, hope it works. http://bit.ly/ozPQpb

Surrey road safety campaign urges drivers to keep an eye out for cyclists

June highlighted as peak month of year for accidents to riders

speed cameras

This is an interesting piece in the Guardian. I think it's wrong personally. If you ask me, speed cameras were phased in to the UK on a large scale as a way of raising revenue in fines and tackling road safety. They're being phased out because they failed. More cost efficient ways of directly tackling road safety by addressing bad driving were ignored. But anyway, here's the link and say what you think:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/may/20/speed-ca...