Nearly all transportation agencies will tell you that safety is their absolute top priority, but if you look more closely, you’ll discover that—in practice—i...
It is true that speed is more dangerous but how much more? Hopefully once we’ve dismantled most car infrastructure we can have separate travel lanes for bikes and pedestrians but right now I’m comfortable sharing. Bicycle collisions just aren’t very dangerous compared to car collisions.
Tell that to the relatives of that grandma who was run over and killed by a speeding biker in a pedestrian zone two weeks ago. He drove off when he saw her down and is still at large.
I agree with you that for deaths, this is nowhere close. But the relationship is there. You complain about the cars, but most bikers I see behave as badly to pedestrians as bikers claim about cars. They just don’t recognize that their behavior is as bad.
It is true that speed is more dangerous but how much more? Hopefully once we’ve dismantled most car infrastructure we can have separate travel lanes for bikes and pedestrians but right now I’m comfortable sharing. Bicycle collisions just aren’t very dangerous compared to car collisions.
Tell that to the relatives of that grandma who was run over and killed by a speeding biker in a pedestrian zone two weeks ago. He drove off when he saw her down and is still at large.
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I agree with you that for deaths, this is nowhere close. But the relationship is there. You complain about the cars, but most bikers I see behave as badly to pedestrians as bikers claim about cars. They just don’t recognize that their behavior is as bad.