From Dave Hembrow's exemplary
blog, fairly representative images of Dutch kids dicing with death. The width, surfacing, and segregation from motor vehicles of the cycling infrastructure (even allotmenters are forbidden from driving and parking here. Yes, seriously!) are all well and good, but consider if you will the disturbing lack of helmets, garish hi-viz and even, in the case of the lad nearest, safety socks. The Dutch hate their young.
Northumberland Transport Planners have a much better grasp of how to keep children safe. Consider Morpeth's Blue Riband stretch of designated cycling infrastructure, the Whorral Bank cycle track.
You don't need me to tell you that no kids will be coming to grief on their bikes on this shared-use, bi-directional, cycling and pedestrian facility any time soon.
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