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Re:Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to invest... by CalRobert on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:32PM (#39748113)
your first link is for the UK, I think? That seems like a separate issue in a place with very different urban design and habits.

What's remarkable is that cars kill thousands of pedestrians _even after we've greatly reduced the frequency of walking_. If the pool were full of sharks then deaths by shark would quickly fall to 0 of course since nobody would swim anymore!

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Re:Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to invest... by Retric on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:36PM (#39750349)
Ops, can’t find national numbers for the US. NYC alone had at least 7 pedestrians killed by cyclists from 2011-2019 plus several more recent deaths not counted by this article. That works out to ~10x safer per cyclist and fairly close mile. (As a side note NYC cabs are driving 100k miles per year!)

https://nypost.com/2019/08/31/nyc-bicyclists-are-killing-ped...

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