Re: Some traffic stats

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:26:25 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 3/14/2024 4:19 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/14/2024 3:37 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:44:47 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/13/2024 11:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:

https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/newsroom/incidentreports/incident.cfm?id=30855

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 From that site:
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* On average, every day, twenty pedestrians are killed by a moving
vehicle in the United States.
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* Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in
roadway crashes annually in the United States.
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I'll note that the figures for pedestrians are far worse than for
bicyclists. Yet the general public thinks of bicycling as much more
dangerous than walking.

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<EYEROLL> Could it be that many many more people walk than ride
bicyles?
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Of course riding bicycles is more dangerous than walking and those
figures, if true, substantiate it.
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As we left at the start of today's group ride, a woman walking a dog
said "Please be safe!" She has probably never said that to other
pedestrians.

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What's your point?

 
My primary point is that the American public (as a whole, or on average)
greatly overestimates the danger of a simple, normal bike ride.
 
My secondary point, just now, is that I see no value in trying to
educate an ineducable and very fearful Florida path rider.
 

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Especially one that reads:
"Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in
roadway crashes annually in the United States."
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and concludes
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"Of course riding bicycles is more dangerous than walking and those
figures, if true, substantiate it."
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dumbass.....

<LOL>  More bicylists are injured than mountain climbers, too, Dummy.
Does that mean that bicycling is more dangerous than mountain
climbing?