"Social safety" is used to identify issues that are not traffic-related safety, since both are disincentives to cycling (and walking, jogging, skating etc. essentially any form of active travel).
Feeling unsafe is a key metric because it's the feeling of not being safe that puts people off. We're not good as a species at accurately assessing objective levels of risk in all circumstances.
Actually being unsafe i.e. in an area of frequent assaults or collisions, is a separate metric that's important for harm reduction independent of an effort to get people on cycles.
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"Social safety" is used to identify issues that are not traffic-related safety, since both are disincentives to cycling (and walking, jogging, skating etc. essentially any form of active travel).
Feeling unsafe is a key metric because it's the feeling of not being safe that puts people off. We're not good as a species at accurately assessing objective levels of risk in all circumstances.
Actually being unsafe i.e. in an area of frequent assaults or collisions, is a separate metric that's important for harm reduction independent of an effort to get people on cycles.