Cycling Safety Survey

[MMA2920]

I completed it but thought that it was a very poor questionnaire. Most questions seem worded to confirm your preconceived assumptions, not to find anything out.

Thank you for your feedback—I really appreciate it. The intention behind the questionnaire was to bridge insights from secondary research, such as data from papers, statistics, and figures, with real-world perspectives from day-to-day cyclists. This approach helps in validating or challenging existing knowledge by seeing how it aligns with actual cyclist experiences. It will definitely help shape the next stage of the project to ensure it’s grounded in what cyclists genuinely feel and encounter on the road.

 

[MMA2920]

Is this of any help?

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Yes, this is indeed helpful, and I’ve come across similar findings in multiple papers. The issue of drivers “failing to look properly” is a significant factor in cyclist collisions, and it’s one of the challenges my project aims to address. While there’s only so much we can do to influence driver behavior, the goal here is to enhance safety for cyclists by making them as prepared and visible as possible. By focusing on improving cyclist awareness and visibility, we can help minimise risks.

 

[Oldhippy]

In honesty I've not looked at the survey but agree with an earlier contribution, it is not about 'safety devices' bright clothing' or any of the other, in my view, ridiculous ways to keep people who cycle safe. It is about changing transportation at a society level and not build all and everything around car transport as the main player and all else a second consideration. Cycling daily as transport is perfectly safe in itself.

 

[Drago]

The wording of the questions suggests a degree of preconception before we've even answered. The Fair Fuel campaign could take a leaf out of the OPs book.

 

[lazybloke]

The wording of the questions suggests a degree of preconception before we've even answered.

I would agree with that, but it's only by engaging with preconceived ideas that we can attempt to move the discussion in a different direction.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Was question 11 about drivers distracted by their phones, music etc? Wasn’t clear. Anyway gave up as none the concerns or pre conceived solutions applied to me.

See Presta’s post above to help you understand what’s going on, when it comes to safety. Reduce motor vehicles use, reduce their speed, reduce their acceleration, reduce their distractions, reduce their weight, reduce their size, reduce where they can go, reduce their blind spots, introduce presumed liability etc etc and you’ll be along the right lines.

 

[cyberknight]

Hmm. Please don't be one of those students that drops in here to mine our collective experience and then buggers off, never to be seen again and without so much as a 'thank you'.

I completed your survey. I fear that youre labouring, as many people do, that the answer to the problem of the danger posed to cyclists by the drivers of motor vehicles is to *increase their visibility*. Cyclists are not invisible. To perpetuate the myth that cyclists are difficult to see puts the responsibility for being seen on the victims of road danger - where it belongs is firmly in the hands of the people who pose the danger: drivers.
Ive been cycling long enough to have tried all the 'safety' options, and I've come to the conclusion that no safety aid in the world will save a cyclist if the driver isn't bloody looking.

Ps. If we want cycling to be less dangerous we need to remove the danger and for that we need better driver education, lower speeds, Presumed Liability in RTCs and a judicial system which takes road safety much more seriously.

Good luck with your project.

what he said 👍

 

[Sharky]

Hmm. Please don't be one of those students that drops in here to mine our collective experience and then buggers off, never to be seen again and without so much as a 'thank you'.

I completed your survey. I fear that youre labouring, as many people do, that the answer to the problem of the danger posed to cyclists by the drivers of motor vehicles is to *increase their visibility*. Cyclists are not invisible. To perpetuate the myth that cyclists are difficult to see puts the responsibility for being seen on the victims of road danger - where it belongs is firmly in the hands of the people who pose the danger: drivers.
Ive been cycling long enough to have tried all the 'safety' options, and I've come to the conclusion that no safety aid in the world will save a cyclist if the driver isn't bloody looking.

Ps. If we want cycling to be less dangerous we need to remove the danger and for that we need better driver education, lower speeds, Presumed Liability in RTCs and a judicial system which takes road safety much more seriously.

Good luck with your project.

There is one example of where responsibility is being thrust on the victim/cyclist.
All big lorries and vans, seem to put stickers on the backs of their vehicles, warning them that they have a "blind sport" and shouldn't undertake.

Surely, the solution is to eliminate blind spots on vehicles by having intelligent sensors, better mirrors and cameras.

 

[Drago]

I would agree with that, but it's only by engaging with preconceived ideas that we can attempt to move the discussion in a different direction.

Except we're not being asked to have a discussion here, we're being asked to select one of several answers clearly provided from a preconceived perspective. For the most part its a kind of closed questioning.

 

[lazybloke]

Except we're not being asked to have a discussion here, we're being asked to select one of several answers clearly provided from a preconceived perspective. For the most part its a kind of closed questioning.

Yeah, but important points are being raised in this thread that the op (and others) *might* see and engage with or take notice of. There are some text boxes in the questionnaire where you can add chapter & verse.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

add chapter & verse

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