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> less safe, less reliable Doesn't seem true where I live. Maybe you have a study to support this claim?\ > Bikes probably do make more sense if a majority o

> less safe, less reliable Doesn't seem true where I live. Maybe you have a study to support this claim?\ > Bikes probably do make more sense if a majority of your population lives in one or two cities, otherwise it just doesn’t. Cities in general seem to be conducive to bikes. Not sure why the whole country needs to live in just one or two cities or how that could logically follow.

gotocake 8y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/05/12/how-safe-is-bike-commuting-perhaps-less-than-you-think/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/05/12/how-saf... Nationwide, you’re more than twice as likely to die while riding a bike than riding in a car, per trip, according to a 2007 study led by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Laurie Beck. Bike riding is also about 500 times more fatal than riding in a bus. Though Beck didn’t run numbers on subway and commuter rail systems, they may be the safest form of transportation of all. Despite a series of well-publicized accidents and maintenance issues, Metrorail and Metrobus reported just two injuries per million riders in 2015.
- frabbit 8y ago
  per trip Exposure statistics need to be examined thoughtfully. Should we examine KSIs against trips or time-periods? This is an old chestnut in these sorts of studies: exposure rates such as the number of trips, distance, or hours walked and cycled [...] are crucial in measuring the safety of these 2 nonmotorized modes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227927/
- wool_gather 8y ago
  Correct, bicycling has safety issues in many places. That's one of the key reasons for advocating for better support for bicycling: to make people less likely to die when they choose to ride.

gotocake 8y ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/05/12/how-safe-is-bike-commuting-perhaps-less-than-you-think/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/05/12/how-saf... Nationwide, you’re more than twice as likely to die while riding a bike than riding in a car, per trip, according to a 2007 study led by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Laurie Beck. Bike riding is also about 500 times more fatal than riding in a bus. Though Beck didn’t run numbers on subway and commuter rail systems, they may be the safest form of transportation of all. Despite a series of well-publicized accidents and maintenance issues, Metrorail and Metrobus reported just two injuries per million riders in 2015.

frabbit 8y ago
per trip Exposure statistics need to be examined thoughtfully. Should we examine KSIs against trips or time-periods? This is an old chestnut in these sorts of studies: exposure rates such as the number of trips, distance, or hours walked and cycled [...] are crucial in measuring the safety of these 2 nonmotorized modes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227927/
wool_gather 8y ago
Correct, bicycling has safety issues in many places. That's one of the key reasons for advocating for better support for bicycling: to make people less likely to die when they choose to ride.