On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:20:32 +0000 (UTC), Mike Bristow
wrote:

So explain, then, how car drivers, even though they almost never
venture on the footway, still manage to kill 200 times as many
pedestrians on the footway as do cyclists?

I'm curious, now.
How many cycles are there? How many cars? Perhaps vechical-hours
would be a better measure - do you have any estimates for that?

There is no measure available that I am aware of for the number of
hours spent (or miles covered) riding or driving on the footway. The
only data we have is anecdotal, viz:

- all cyclists ride only on the footway, except when they drop onto
the road in order to ride through a red light

- no motorist ever drives on the footway, all those cars parked on the
footway are carefully lifted there by their drivers

And yet, amazingly, there are orders of magnitude more people killed
on the footway by motor drivers than by cyclists. Baffling, innit?

Guy
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