Thursday, 11 September 2014

ABC RADIO - SEP 12 2014

Jon Faine ABC local radio 774 talking about it; been on 3AW - interview with Holgate from VicRoads this morning, also heard on ABC news.
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-breakfast-blog/new-bike-rules-under-consideration/20140912-3fes6.html

Article in https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/general/better-conditions/2793/
More bikes make riders safer
1 July 2014. A major new study into bike safety has further confirmed that the more bikes on the street, the safer it is—not just for bike riders, but for all road users.
VicRoads had a MUARC survey done 2008 I think?

Cate :-) 
Remember the MUARC (road safety???) survey that asked motorcycle and scooter riders what type of relationship they were in? Married, defacto single etc. If they had a high fat diet? If they did home handyman work? And, astoundingly, if they owned a gun?!? These questions were excused by saying they were an internationally used way to assess risk taking behaviour. It looks like this was a Queensland set of questions that had been read by some folk overseas. Anyway, how these questions relate to the safe use of a motorcycle mor scooter on Victoria is still a mystery. It would be very interesting to compare the bicycle survey with the motorbike one.
Damien
Independent Riders Group

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