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>In NYC in 2022... NYC encompasses a large area including Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens, which have a wide variety of traffic situations. I'm talking about M

>In NYC in 2022... NYC encompasses a large area including Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens, which have a wide variety of traffic situations. I'm talking about Midtown Manhattan where the roadways are a grid of wide avenues with synchronized lights and narrow perpendicular streets with slow traffic. I experience zero close calls with cars, and can time my crossing of the street (jaywalking) quite accurately. I have to dodge and weave and experience close calls with silent bicycles and high speed electrics all the time. I said what I have to worry about, and it is bicycles. (I am completely pro bike; I RIDE BIKES IN THE CITY ALL THE TIME; but I don't scare the bejeezus out of pedestrians; and when I ride "wrong way" (because who is going to go the long way around 2 long blocks and a short to get 1 block so) I am respectful and cede right of way to oncomers)

gpm 2y ago
The data addresses this in part, to quote my original comment > In every borough there were > 10x the number of pedestrian fatalities from crashes with motor vehicles as crashes with bicycles. It doesn't break down Manhattan into pieces. Or it does, but there's a rather baffling omission of a "Between Motorized and Pedestrians" table. Still, considering that in all of Manhattan there was a single pedestrian killed by bicycle, we can be pretty sure that cars are the greater threat in every precinct. I don't doubt that cyclists could do better, and they certainly present some risk, but I think you're greatly underestimating the risk that cars present.