I'm not sure I am. Cycling safety is a legitimate question if you arrange your life to accommodate it, but what upset me is that this isn't implicit in MMM's p

I'm not sure I am. Cycling safety is a legitimate question if you arrange your life to accommodate it, but what upset me is that this isn't implicit in MMM's piece, as I read it. The piece insists that biking is safer per-mile, and that readers would benefit from a simple, minimal-accommodation switch to bicycling. There is a real question to be answered here, and I didn't attempt to address it. But what offended me is the use of "per mile" and "best case" values that pretended there wasn't a harder question to address.