Originally Posted by huge
I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing, but this statement invalidates any argument that can be made. We will all have different "gut feelings" about anything. Until someone can provide hard data (by which I mean, data not based on a feeling), the conversation will go in circles. No offense, but instincts don't count. Maybe your guesses are really wrong.
Just to clarify my only guess work is number of cyclists Baltimore has vs. the number cyclists NYC has. The other items you highlighted are hard numbers. Or stated differently the only way Baltimore can justify being as safe as NYC for cycling is if we had three times the number of cyclists per 1000 population. And I cannot make that inference.