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7. The bike paths along my routes aren’t safe enough.
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Do the test persons find items 7 and 8 redundant?
Statement 7 concerns whether the participants consider bike paths safe enough to ride a bike, and the eighth statement concerns whether fear of accidents prevents them from riding a bike. When asked, all participants except one (TP05) stated that these were different aspects for them. Statement 7 was mostly related to the infrastructure and quality of the bike paths. Statement 8, on the other hand, was more strongly associated with the behavior of other road users and with riding in traffic. Four participants gave different answers to Statements 7 and 8, with three of them stating that their bike paths were safe enough but that they were still afraid of accidents (TP08, 09, 12). One participant felt the opposite: they believed that the bike paths should be safer but did not feel any fear (TP01). For all participants, the explanations provided for Statements 7 and 8 were consistent with their answers.
§ “Those are two different things. While the routes aren’t safe enough, that doesn’t mean I’m afraid something will happen to me.” (TP01, response to statement 7: Agree, response to statement 8: Does not apply)
§ “The seventh point concerns whether bike paths are safe enough, and that is clearly not the case. Many bike paths aren’t properly constructed, are too close to car traffic, or make it easy to get into conflicts with drivers. Or, to put it another way, they’re built in such a way that pedestrians can easily walk into them […] The other statement—whether I’m concerned—relates to that, but also to other road users, especially drivers. Sure, I’m sometimes afraid of accidents—for example, I might be riding down a hill at 50 km/h and then my front tire bursts and I go down. But I’m more afraid of drivers.” (TP06: Response to Statement 7: Applies, Response to Statement 8: Applies)
§ “Of course, there are routes that are unsafe, but you might be able to avoid them by taking a different route. But no matter which route you take, you’re never completely safe from accidents, because drivers might fail to yield the right of way or fail to see you. You have to expect others to make mistakes.” (TP08, Response to Statement 7: Does not apply, Response to Statement 8: Applies)