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Got any hard numbers on the menace part, and how it compares to cars as dangerous machines, or is that just anecdotal "evidence"?

From what I have seen Sydney has a really obnoxious anti-cycling culture and a dismal level of cycling infrastructure.

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Having an obnoxious anti-cycling culture is by no means mutually exclusive with having irresponsible, law-breaking cyclists. (And in fact the latter may be a contributing factor to the former.)

I live and work in Sydney and suffer near misses with cyclists on a regular basis, somehow I've never had a problem with a car running through a red light into a packed pedestrian crossing, only cyclists. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just that cyclists seem to think road laws don't apply to them.

The transgression of cycling through a red light is much more visible than lets say speeding, mobile phone or dangerous driving. Yet it is also much less dangerous than any of those things. Even if we assume that there is a massive level of red light jumping going on part of the Sydney cyclists, fatalities or serious injury as a result of this are extremely rare. Sadly the same cannot be said for cars hitting people.

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