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Poll: Is it time to reconsider mandatory helmets for cyclists?

By BCBusiness /

The City of Vancouver recently announced that its long-awaited public bike-share program will launch this summer. Because helmets are mandatory for cyclists in Vancouver, helmets will be provided free of charge—yet a UBC study of bicycling hospitalisation rates in Canadian jurisdictions with different helmet legislation found no decrease in head injury rates.

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