• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      bikes kill pedestrians

      Exceedingly rarely, almost to the point of not happening. You know this is a braindead argument.

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        10 months ago

        ThatsThePoint.jpg.

        Just like cars killing people on right hand reds. It’s a very low occurring incident.

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          10 months ago

          False. In my city right on red kills people every year, but there has only been one bike that killed a pedestrian in 40 years and even that seemed like a weird fluke if you read about it

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              10 months ago

              Yeah I should probably accept your link as reality instead of the facts that I know for sure

              • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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                10 months ago

                The link to actual data is less reliable than your feelings on what facts you know for sure?

                … Yeah, you should be accepting statistical data over what you feel you might know

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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                  10 months ago

                  No you right wing troll I walk around my city and see white bikes which symbolize people killed by morons like you, new ones all the time. I see the articles about who they were as people. And I’ve also read about the only person killed since the 80s by a bike. She was an elderly woman.

                  No one gives a single fuck about your efforts to make sure the world stays terrible. Leave Lemmy.

                  • duffman@lemmy.world
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                    10 months ago

                    Random user who shares their unverifiable anecdotes or actual research. Tough choice.

                  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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                    10 months ago

                    Lololol whatever you say. I post data from the nhta but you know better I’m sure. Right wing troll 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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      10 months ago

      We should advocate for having dedicated biking lanes to reduce these kinds of accidents, and redesign intersections to create a buffer space between pedestrian and bicycle crossing areas.

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      10 months ago

      While fatalities are rare to the point of non-existence, it’s certainly a fair concern that bicyclists have too much difference in speed and maneuverability from pedestrians, risking too many accidents/injuries. That’s why we separate them: bicycling is not allowed on sidewalks