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As a New Zealand cyclist and scientist who has watched and studied the effect of the mandatory law in New Zealand the answer can be nothing but that such laws are a terrible idea.

The law in NZ, as in other places they have been tried, is a total health and safety disaster. While we could spend time discussing the reasons behind this that is quite an involved debate, so let's just summarize: the laws have failed and nobody has come up with anyway to make them work.

We still have a law in NZ not because it works, even Government officials responsible for it will off the record (and even occasionally on) admit the failure, but because those same Government officials currently deem the political cost of admitting the failure as too high. Some indicate that in future maybe it will go, when the political cost is deemed low enough. Meanwhile of course the NZ public continue to suffer from its failure (it is as I said a health and safety disaster), but it does allow other countries such as Norway to look at our failure (they decided we increased risk by 14%) and decide not to impose such a disaster on their population, i.e. we abuse our cyclists (especially the kids) so you don't have to. Strange, unjustifiable, but true :-(

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