Cycling is overwhelmingly safe — but needs to be made safer

Owen Jones
4 min readMar 22, 2022
cycling is great, you should cycle

Yesterday, on the Jeremy Vine Show, we discussed the case of a cyclist who faces being prosecuted or fined after he reported a driver using a phone, because he blocked a van while doing so.

Now, I argued against him either being prosecuted or fined, and pointed out that cars are far more dangerous than bikes, by virtue of being massive husks of metal travelling…

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Owen Jones

Author of 'The Establishment' and 'Chavs', Socialist, Guardian columnist. Losing my Northern accent. My views etc... https://www.youtube.com/c/OwenJonesTalks