State Premier starts commuting to work

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2 total messages Started by Rob Logie Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:22

Author: Rob Logie
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:22

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Announced in todays paper is that Wayne Goss, the Premier of Queensland
Australia, has started to commute to work on a regular basis by bike.

He travels about 20 KM each way.  Apparently, his fellow politicians are 
very concerned about the risk to his health !!. (Maybe they should do 
something about bike lanes etc  to improve bike safty!!)
(BTW a State Premier is roughly the same as a State Governor in the USA !!).

I travel the same route as him for about 10 KM.  Maybe I'll get a bike lane,
or if  I ride at the same time as him, a police escort yet !!


It is great to see politicans getting involved in cycling .

It will also be of interest to see how long he lasts !.o



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Cycling benefits vs. risk (was "State Premier starts commuting")

Author: John Ciccarelli
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:04

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In article <1993Jan24.092227.10564@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> 
logier@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rob Logie) writes:

>Wayne Goss, the Premier of Queensland Australia, has started to 
>commute to work on a regular basis by bike. ....Apparently, his 
>fellow politicians are very concerned about the risk to his health !!

You may wish to tell Mr. Goss -- and his concerned peers -- of a 
study published in the British Medical Journal concerning the 
lifetime benefits of cycling as compared to the added risk.  The 
conclusion was that the health and longevity benefits outweighed 
the lifetime risk by several times.  I don't have the reference handy 
(perhaps another reader can post it...)

Studies have also shown that cyclists that know and practice vehicular 
rules of the road have dramatically lower accident rates than less
experienced cyclists, so you can easily increase your benefit-to-risk
ratio even further.  

/John

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