Danger deters one in three Britons from riding bikes, according to new survey

Well all you can do personally is carrying on riding, filter like a ninja and demonstrate that you'll be spending a whole bunch of your time not travelling whilst they are a car park.  The dimly flickering lightbulb moment will occasionally swing toward mitigating against all that lost time and the real danger of heartattack etc!

The point is that they thenselves are the risk.

The issue is risk, it only becomes danger if you don't asses, and mitigate the risk.

but the "danger" element is identified both by cyclists and non cyclists alike, and matches other studies, the reason the non cyclists cited for not cycling was lack of cycling lanes, whilst over half the cyclists said they dread cycling in traffic because of the danger, which is why they also found 3 in 5 cycle only for leisure purposes where the majority felt safer, not commuting where they didnt.

and that feeling from the data chimes with me, my commutes are on urban roads full of cars,hgvs,tipper trucks and buses who generally treat you as if you are completely expendable, and thats not a nice feeling to have, even before you get complete strangers vilifying you for your choice of mode of transport

people always say cycling isnt dangerous because the stats say you are less likely to be in an accident than driving the same route, but its hard to feel that way when a vehicle be it car,bus,tipper truck or 44 ton articulated lorry is driving to within touching distance of you, knowing any mistake or wobble you then make,could result in at best serious life changing injuries or death, that is going to feel a dangerous position to be in.

I totally understand why people dont cycle on the UK roads for perceived danger, if I was just cycle commuting as my only cycling outlet I probably wouldnt either its often far too stressful for the benefit, but whilst we pretend that its not an issue for people and that its just lazy car drivers, the modal share for cycling will stubbornly not shift one inch.

it wouldnt be dangerous if we lived in the netherlands. As said before, you can only get congestion down if you lessen the number of cars in one space. You can't do that unless you give people alternatives. So, people who need to travel further, could invest in motorbikes. People who commute short distances, should be able to cycle on a bicycle lane, not a shared path, a proper cycle lane with priority to the user only. Every town and city should be connected by new bicycle only paths, running through the forests that surround us. Every city and town must have a network of cycle only lanes, that continue to every other location imaginable, like roads do. Not ones that put you into bus stops, lamp posts or pedestrians. Not ones that make you sit at traffic lights to cross over sections. Not ones that push you into a subway.  Until thats done, congestion is only going to worsen. 

As I said on the live blog post about this... I'll bet that all those saying cycling is too dangerous would lay the blame with the other drivers, definitely not themselves.

There's a strong smell of bullshit coming from this article. I suspect there's a lot of lazy drivers who don't want to admit to being lazy.

It's odd but the people who tell me the roads are too dangerous to cycle are all car drivers.

It makes me wonder how they know? And perhaps how they drive around cyclists?