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Re:Noise Is All Around Us–and It’s Affecting You More Than Y... by dan-robertson on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:22AM (#36031108)
Cyclists are slower and plenty of cyclists will have had actual collisions or near-misses with eg car doors being suddenly opened into the bike line, cars cutting across the bike lane without looking, and so on.
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Re:Noise Is All Around Us–and It’s Affecting You More Than Y... by citrin_ru on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:27AM (#36032682)
Both riding a bicycle and driving a motorbike is less safe than driving a car because they are harder to notice and less protected but there should be some compromise between safety for a biker and noise pollution or a large are around the road.

As to cyclists to be slower: 1. a motorbike driver can choose to go below speed limit is the situation / road configuration makes it unsafe to go fast. 2. low speed is not always safer - on a straight road outside intersections speed of the flow (or just below) is safer.

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