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Re:Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share ro... by pharmakom on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:20AM (#32375899)
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Re:Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share ro... by Retric on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:38AM (#32376016)
Oddly bikes kill roughly as many people per mile as cars do, and injure significantly more. Drivers do kill approximately 40x as many people in NYC, but they also travel far more.

The politics around this are tricky in part because of comments like yours. https://nypost.com/2019/08/31/nyc-bicyclists-are-killing-ped...

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Re:Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share ro... by eli on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:44AM (#32376050)
Your source is a tabloid article and it does not appear to actually show a per-mile statistic. Where are you getting that from?
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Re:Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share ro... by Retric on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:18AM (#32377142)
Estimates for number of miles traveled by cyclists or cars in NYC varies, you can get an order of magnitude estimate just looking at traffic though.

Anyway the article is quoting the same statistics anyone gets from cover, government sources like this: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-da...

Pedestrian killed in 2017 by bicylists/pedestrian accidents 1, bicylists only fatalites 1.

Pedestrian injured in 2017 by bicylists/pedestrian accidents 315, bicylists injured in 2017 by bicylists/pedestrian accidents 88.

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