Originally Posted by
Daniel4
So on your next bicycle ride, make a comparison which you would rather take, a route with lots of fast moving cars or one with hardly any? And then measure their distances.
Get rid of all the cyclists is what some politicians want. But that doesn't solve the pedestrians deaths does it?
There are two parts to this.
1- explaining why the death rate increased.
2- what to do to decrease the death rate.
Death rates will be expected to increase if you increase car-miles OR bicycle-miles.
If the number of car-miles hasn't increase (
the number of car-miles has been going down), then the reason bicycle deaths have increased isn't due to "more cars".
If the number of bicycle-miles has increased while car-miles have stayed the same (a possibility), then an increase in bicycle deaths
isn't caused by "more cars".
It's not even clear that bicycle fatalities (as a rate)
has increased.
All that I'm talking about is 1.
Originally Posted by
Daniel4
Get rid of all the cyclists is what some politicians want. But that doesn't solve the pedestrians deaths does it?
"Getting rid of cars" is not a "practical" way to solve either of these.
Getting rid of cyclists is relatively easy (it might even be agreeable to a majority of people).