@thomasfuchs I mean you *can* reduce risk a lot with good, thoughtful infrastructure design. (Not nearly to zero, though!) And I can see the logic behind "at a population level, the health benefits of increasing cycling adoption outweigh the risk from crashes, so helmet mandates are counterproductive."
The whole "we want people to wear helmets but not make cycling seem dangerous or inconvenient" thing is a super hard line to walk and I'm not surprised the gov't didn't succeed