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  • Re: Crossing the street in NYC

    From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Mar 7 19:12:32 2024
    On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, JAB wrote:

    Crossing the street in NYC is more dangerous than riding the subway.
    There is no debating it. 104 pedestrian deaths vs 5 subway murders
    last year, 9,035 ped injuries vs 570 subway assaults. Where is the
    National Guard and state police deployment to make our streets safer?

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    In order to come to a conclusion we must know how many crossing are made,
    vs how many trips in the subway. Only then can we compare meaningfully.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 7 11:44:15 2024
    Crossing the street in NYC is more dangerous than riding the subway.
    There is no debating it. 104 pedestrian deaths vs 5 subway murders
    last year, 9,035 ped injuries vs 570 subway assaults. Where is the
    National Guard and state police deployment to make our streets safer?

    https://bsky.app/profile/awgordon.bsky.social/post/3kn4h4qnz222j

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Mar 7 18:59:38 2024
    On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:12:32 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    how many crossing are made,
    vs how many trips in the subway

    "The subway has a daily ridership of approximately 3.2 million and bus
    has a daily ridership of 1.4 million" In ballparks, more than 4.6
    million pedestrians afoot

    Pedestrian Fatalities in New York City https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/databrief86.pdf

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Mar 8 10:25:05 2024
    On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:12:32 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    how many crossing are made,
    vs how many trips in the subway

    "The subway has a daily ridership of approximately 3.2 million and bus
    has a daily ridership of 1.4 million" In ballparks, more than 4.6
    million pedestrians afoot

    Pedestrian Fatalities in New York City https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/databrief86.pdf


    Thank you! Now we're getting somewhere. So let's say we have 4.6 million pedestrians + 1.4 million bus riders (who are in a sense pedestrians when moving to/from the bus), that makes 6 million.

    Now how many crossing do they make each day? Counting low I'd get one to
    work, one from work, 2 for lunch, so 4, (and remember that this assumes
    that work is just one crossing away). So 24 million crossings. So probably
    10x the subway.

    So all of a sudden it seems like the figures are not as dramatic as they
    seemed when only comparing the actual numbers. =)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Mar 8 07:51:13 2024
    On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:25:05 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    how many crossing are made,
    vs how many trips in the subway

    So all of a sudden it seems like the figures are not as dramatic as they >seemed when only comparing the actual numbers. =)

    But, if time spent for each activity, a different outcome (analysis)

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