Here's an excellent article which supports the relaxing of the helmet laws:
A few quotes:
A few quotes:
There are different styles of riding a bike, each with different levels of risk. There are speed cyclists. There are downhill mountainbike riders. There are low-speed riders using their bike as a means of getting from A to B. Yet there's only one blanket law for riding a bike, no matter what style of riding or where that riding is happening – whether it's on the road, off the road, in a park, or on a separated cycleway.
NYC has no helmet law, 38 million bike share trips & 0 deaths. Seattle has a helmet law & 1 dead bike share system.
Janette Sadik-Khan, Former NYC Transport Commissioner
Janette Sadik-Khan, Former NYC Transport Commissioner
Bike share is coming, but it has failed everywhere where there is a blanket helmet law.
After 1994 when helmets became compulsory in New Zealand, the unintended fallout was a corresponding 50 per cent drop in the numbers of people riding a bike. That's 50 per cent fewer people getting the life-extending benefits of riding.
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