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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's another fun tidbit directly from the hard data.

The prevalence of accidents is directly related to rush hour.  In otherwords, not speed but congestion.

During rush hour, the likelihood of an accident is greater on Connecticut than Wisconsin.  Outside of rush hour the liklihood was less.  Although it should be noted that those numbers are not weighted for volume and Connecticut has higher volume.  The most common accident involved left turns during rush hour.[/quote]

That's pretty misleading.  Wisconsin only leads Conn Ave in crashes that are both amongst cars alone and without injuries.  [b]Conn Ave typically has 1.5x to 2.5x more crashes involving bikes and pedestrians than Wisconsin.[/b]  For crashes amongst just cars with injuries Conn Ave is typically between 1.1-1.5x worse than Wisc.[/quote]
DP. Talk about “misleading”. You folks always include pedestrians with bikes in your stats when you know that you cannot make your case with bikes alone. It’s been pretty definitely proven over this thread and through the course of this whole public policy debacle that the cycling community doesn’t care about the safety of pedestrians.[/quote]

According to the bike lobby themselves, there’s only been one bike-auto accident in the Connecticut Avenue corridor under consideration for the bike lanes. And that was in 1971 when the cyclist ran a red light. [/quote]

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