‘Do you ever think that, although I love cycling, it is now getting too dangerous?’

The deaths of six cyclists on London’s roads within the space of two weeks prompted political pundits to wonder if cycling was becoming too dangerous, while in the newspapers a debate raged about whether cyclists needed to look at their own behaviour

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Viewers of the BBC’s This Week late night political programme last week may have been extremely wary of getting on a bike the next morning. “With six fatalities on London’s streets in the last two weeks and – listen to this – 3,200 cyclists killed or seriously injured last year, cycling has become a dangerous business,” said presenter Andrew Neil, opening a discussion of the topic.

The programme had asked Channel 4 News presenter and keen cyclist Jon Snow for...

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