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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Some traffic stats
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:37:20 -0400
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:44:47 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 3/13/2024 11:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/newsroom/incidentreports/incident.cfm?id=30855
>
> From that site:
>
>* On average, every day, twenty pedestrians are killed by a moving 
>vehicle in the United States.
>
>* Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in 
>roadway crashes annually in the United States.
>
>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.

<EYEROLL> Could it be that many many more people walk than ride
bicyles?  

Of course riding bicycles is more dangerous than walking and those
figures, if true, substantiate it.

>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.

What's your point?