Looking further into those schemes, as I should have earlier, I see that many of them are linked to installing the cycle super highways, so I apologise if I suggested that people living in other quarters of London - and Michael - were in a Thatcherite time warp. OTOH, cycling activists tell me that one reason we're not seeing cycle super highways extending here is because our local authorities just aren't very keen on cycling. Lewisham is far from the worst - that honour I think goes to Greenwich. So, if we want to see more road projects, it would probably help to have local amenity societies backing organisations such as Lewisham Cyclists and the London cycling campaign, rather than sending out rather negative messages about cycling such as this. I suspect such engagement will impress TfL rather more than the level of humour used in your recent communications with them.

Accident rates are reasonable enough as part of transport in London can be judged, but if taken on their own can be misleading; notoriously, a major reason for the decline in deaths and serious injuries on our roads over the last 100 years is that fewer vulnerable users - pedestrians and cyclists - are on them.

Taking Michael's figure of 14% of reported accidents taking place in our SE quarter of London, I'm led to wonder what proportion of London's population live in these boroughs. It's easy enough to look up, thanks to the GLA data store. 13%, as it happens. Over to Michael for the the chi squared test for statistical significance.

This post was last modified: 06-11-2014 06:59 PM by Tim Lund.