Cycling community, policy experts call recent bike safety report ‘misleading’ and ‘baloney’

[B'Spokes: To many think that cycling is dangerous and go out of their way to look for things to back up their point of view (conformation bias). This is even more disturbing from "professionals".]
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By Shaun Courtney, Urbanful

A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), Spotlight on Highway Safety: Bicyclist Safety , raised the specter of an upward trend in the number of bicycle fatalities in the U.S. But critics have been quick to note that the report fails to consider the overall increase in cycling and the downward trend in the rate of fatalities.

Cycling advocates and academic experts in urban planning and policy quickly heaped criticism on the GHSA report, calling it everything from “baloney” to “junk science” to “deliberately misleading.” Ouch.
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