Making the statement that you oppose Vision Zero (the dream of achieving zero road casualties) may seem counter-intuitive at first and certainly leads to straw man arguments that we support more death on the roads.  That is the all-too-common response to a genuine effort to improve road safety for all road users.

When it comes to the safety of motorcyclists there is an insidious double standard increasingly manifest in the Vision Zero approach to road safety.  Whilst claiming to have the best interests of all road users at heart, Vision Zero continually states a preference for changing modal choice rather than improving the safety of all modes.  Policymakers have subordinated the safety of motorcyclists to their desire for social engineering.  Hierarchies of “consideration” consistently write motorcyclists out of the equation entirely or, at best, throw their interests into a blanket silo of choices they wish to actively discourage.