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Bicycling Safety for Experts
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1 Introduction
Especially in crowded urban/suburban areas where distances are short and
parking next to impossible to find, bicycling can provide a useful and
convenient alternative to driving. When a sufficient number of people
use bicycles for short trips, the result is to free up otherwise scarce
parking for people who live further away, as illustrated in the
following figure.
To obtain these advantages, the level of bicycling will have to increase. Some
of the factors currently discouraging cycling (as of 1999 in the U.S.) include
lack of knowledge of how to use a bicycle safely and hostility on the part of a
few drivers. This document and companion documents attempt to mitigate both of
these problems by providing a readily accessible treatment of bicycling
safety from multiple points of view.
