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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by ath3nd on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:38AM (#44775879)
> I suspect that most of the bike drivers are affluent service workers who can't be arsed to share the public transport with the plebs.

Fairly often they are postal or delivery workers. Are those the affluent service workers that we keep hearing about?

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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by Saline9515 on Sunday August 03, 2025 @08:33AM (#44776121)
My comment was not about those people, who are minimum-wage temp workers and a tiny minority compared to the mass of cyclists in Paris.

In the case of Helsinki, they don't have a particularly outstanding biking infrastructure, but they have stellar public transports. And clean, very clean. I'd choose that everyday, which is much more inclusive and far less dangerous for everyone. Especially in a aging society.

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