An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs

Re:An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs by Rebelgecko on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:01PM (#38728951)

33% of bike trips in the Washington area are by women. Assuming non-binary people are around 1% of trips, that puts men at 66%, giving an exact 2:1 ratio

Source: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24356/dot_24356_DS1.pdf?

And IMO you can't call a mode of transportation "fine" when large swathes of the population don't feel safe or comfortable using it (this comes up a lot when I talk to female friends about bus/metro usage too)

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Re:An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs by mkii on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:50AM (#38732662)

Thank you for clarifying, I get what you mean now.

That study is over a decade old though. And I would think that there's too many confounding variables at play there. IMO the biggest confounder is "society issues" that make women feel less safe in general in public spaces. In my local neck of the US, I pretty much never see solo women eating outside at night, vs solo men and mixed groups.

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