| Topic: | Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | Tom Pike | |
| Date/Time: | 22/01/26 11:35:00 |
| Francis, your selection contains a good many collision not on the A306, and that's obviously where the traffic has been significantly reduced. If you look at the cyclist casualties just on the A306 in your dataset, for the 20 years before the closure of the bridge to motor vehicles, there was 1 fatality, 10 serious injuries and 61 slight injuries. For the six years after the closure there were just two slight injuries. So the closure has led to very significant decrease in the rate of cyclist injuries own the A306. Slight injuries are down from over 3 a year to 1 every three years. And that underestimates the reduction in risk as the number of cyclists has increased significantly - the Thames screenline counts show more than a 50% increase in cyclist numbers. Your claim that crossing Hammersmith Bridge was no more dangerous when it was open to motor vehicles is not supported by the data. |