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Thank you for sharing the staff posters. Some wonderful stuff in there, and more than deserving of being seen on tube station walls.

The way for all, indeed.

MMR | 29.06.23 - 9:49 a.m. | #

E - Scooters - 'Less than 0.01% of trips resulted in serious injury'.

I looked at the press release and noted the number of kilometres travelled by e scooters in the trial (6.46 million) and the number of serious injuries involving e scooters in the trial in the same period (22). This equates to a casualty rate of 3406 casualties per billion vehicle kilometres travelled.

When compared to Great Britain overall killed and seriously injured rates per billion vehicle kilometres travelled for pedestrians (243.5), pedal cycles (661) and motorcycles (1269) I would not be getting too excited about safety.

Admittedly the TfL sample of 22 casualties is small in statistical terms, and I am comparing London figures with GB wide figures but the underlying message is not one of optimism, especially given these are regulated scooters in a trial.

(Figures for pedestrians motorcycles and pedal cycles from tables in Reported Road Traffic Casualties Great Britain for the year 2021).

MO | 29.06.23 - 1:53 p.m. | #

With respect, I'd say the families of those killed or seriously injured by HGVs would find TFL's plans to improve lorry safety in London anything but dull.

It shows they're taking the problem seriously and not treating such terrible occurences as part & parcel of daily life on the streets of London and that their loved ones haven't died in vain and such incidents can act as a much-needed catalyst for change.

Wild Edric | 29.06.23 - 2:07 p.m. | #

In the survey of reasons why people don't cycle, it would have been informative to have had a category for people who think "it's beneath me and I wouldn't stoop so low".

Actually, there was a similar one where a proportion of people thought it would make it look as though they couldn't afford a car. That's either hillarious or tragic!

Anyway I agree with the thrust that there is a lot more potential for more journeys by bike and that it's going to take some decent budget and encouragement.

NickW | 29.06.23 - 2:36 p.m. | #

22 June - I can't spot the bit that confirms TfL have no plans to withdraw the Oyster card, only a plea from London TravelWatch. I was glazing over though by the end of an over-long press release for something quite simple; the bit about MFA seemed particularly spurious! In practice TfL would really like everyone to switch to contactless, though they're not helping with that aim by taking so long to develop a way to link Railcards etc to a contactless account.

Andrew S | 29.06.23 - 2:44 p.m. | #

I appreciated the effort in this, even though I don't normally comment! Not a waste of time, even if a bit text heavy.

Appreciative | 30.06.23 - 12:21 p.m. | #











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