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OK, you were _nearly_ hit by someone on a bicycle, and you lived to tell everybody about it on the Internet. Meanwhile, 2.4 million Americans are injured in ca
by thrownaway2424 11y ago
OK, you were _nearly_ hit by someone on a bicycle, and you lived to tell everybody about it on the Internet. Meanwhile, 2.4 million Americans are injured in car collisions every year, and tens of thousands of them die.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoI'll just leave this data here to back up my assertions for future readers. This, from Streetsblog today: "From 2000 to 2013 (the most recent year for which official bike crash data are available), cyclists killed eight New York City pedestrians, according to DOT. During that time frame, drivers killed 2,291 people walking. There were two reported incidents in which people on bikes struck and killed pedestrians in 2014, when DMV data show drivers killed 127 pedestrians. All told, cyclists fatally struck 10 people in NYC in 14 years, compared to 2,418 pedestrians killed by drivers, making cyclists accountable for .4 percent of pedestrian deaths."
- grandalf 11y agoConsidering that in NYC cars transport hundreds of thousands of times the number of people that bicycles do, the pedestrian death toll for bicycles per useful unit of transit is far higher than that of motor vehicles. And of course accidents will happen. I am referring to being nearly hit at high speed several times by cyclists who were blatantly disregarding the traffic signal. It's just needlessly reckless. Also, you have not addressed the issue of why someone who is allegedly healthy enough to cycle would be so lazy as to want to avoid having to stop at a signal and pedal to get up to speed again.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoIt's not about saving energy. It is much more dangerous for bicyclists to stop at stop signs. By the way, transportation mode share in NYC is only about 10:1 in favor of cars over bicycles, not 100000:1