> Reduced deaths on roads could simply be due to less driving. If everybody moves to a less-safe transit option, that’s not a good thing. (Other transit likely

> Reduced deaths on roads could simply be due to less driving. If everybody moves to a less-safe transit option, that’s not a good thing. (Other transit likely is safer, but we shouldn’t just [assume] it is) What is this less-safe transit option? I imagine that "road deaths" includes bus/tram riders, cyclists and pedestrians that died on the road. The number of people who died on trains/train tracks (excluding suicides) and planes is certainly at least an order of magnitude smaller.