Comments on: DAY 3: Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2010 with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:40:46 +0000

Thanks, Rebecca. And yeah, wow, I didn’t know about the helmet restriction. It would definitely prevent me from hiring a bike, cause I don’t just have a helmet ready, especially when I am just visiting. I think it should be a choice and responsibility of each individual to decide whether they require a helmet. And the cars sympathy will develop naturally if there are more people cycling.

Great insights, Rebecca, thank you so much!!

By: rebeccca

rebeccca — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:53:51 +0000

very cool Tatyana…I love the pix you put in your blog!

Did you know that the public bike hire hasn’t taken off because the law requires cyclists to ride with a helmet. And hardly anybody who wanders by and thinks it would be nice to take a bike for a spin, has a helmet! So its a bit of a flawed initiative at this stage. There is an ongoing debate about whether there should be an exemption from wearing a helmet for those hiring these public bicycles. But at this stage it looks unlikely. Apparently in HOLLAND there is no law requiring cyclists to wear helmets and there are not many cyclists hit by cars. But there is probably not the same awareness of or sympathy for cyclists amongst the motoring population of Melbourne. The motorists don’t like it when they lose road space to cycle lanes even….

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