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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bicyclists in DC are SO MEAN. The most road rage Ive seen in DC is from cyclists to drivers (I am a pedestrian--no wheels for me)[/quote]

You definitely don't live where I live[/quote]

As I'm sitting here reading this, two or three cars (hard to tell) are laying on their horns for longer than 10 seconds at each other right outside my apartment on Conn Ave.  Go figure.  But its gotta be a damn cyclist with an airhorn right.  Couldn't possibly be a car.  All car drivers are every so respectable and safe.  They never speed or run lights or blow through stop signs or cheat crosswalks with pedestrians in them or pass to close to cyclists in their lane.  No never.  It's why our rate of traffic deaths in this country is so low, almost none.  We just have the best drivers.

Oh wait, we aren't freaking a Scandanavian country where that little fable is true and our accident rates suck and drivers kill like 35,000-45,000 people a year.[/quote]

Our rate of traffic deaths in this area is indeed low.

There will only be more horns outside your apartment when congestion is increased.[/quote]

11.10 deaths per 100,000 in the US.
1.76 in Norway.
2.57 in Sweden.
4.58 in Canada.

Yep, seems real low there.  [/quote]

Now do the urban density of the four countries where bikers are more likely to be killed.  [/quote]

US people per sq mile - 742.
Japan has 881, pretty comparable.  It's rate of death per 100k people?  2.21.
UK has 723, pretty comparable.  It's rate of death per 100k people?  2.81.

Anything else I can do for you?  Or could you perhaps learn how to google a question before you form your misguided opinions and decide to vomit them on msg boards?[/quote]

Google is so effective for those who have no critical thinking skills or understanding of statistics. But good for know about msg and vomit! [/quote]

The number of bicyclists killed this year in D.C. is approximately the same as the number of people killed by lightning which is roughly the same as the number of Washingtonians who were eaten this year by sharks. [/quote]

Bike lanes (and the other infrastructure changes that typically accompany them) reduce traffic violence for all road users.  Not just cyclists.[/quote]

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