Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling
The UK’s cycling infrastructure is hostile to women – and smart new measures in Paris and Lisbon show that change is overdue
It was enraging and exhausting to read comments on social media in the wake of Sarah Everard’s killing from men suggesting she had made a “poor decision” to walk home alone in the dark. Every day, women and gender non-conforming people reflexively make calculations about their safety in a way that most men do not have to – and yet sometimes, tragically, it still is not enough.
We have normalised a society in which men can move around as they please while the rest of us fear for our lives for the simple act of travelling home.
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