Also, the majority of these collisions are caused by not having proper segregation of road users. Cyclists and pedestrians get slammed into the margins of roads dedicated to cars, causing the conflicts.
Adopting zision zero solves the problem regardless.
The vast majority of far right recruitment seems to be focused on young men without healthy outlets for masculinity. Fight Club (1999) was built on the same principle. We often decry the outcome, but I think efforts should be more focused on avoiding the conditions that lead to this in the first place.
Anti-immigration sentiment is an outcome of income inequality.
Healthy masculine outlets like scouting and sports seem to be reducing.
Community outlets took a dive through COVID. Increasing sense of community can divert some of that energy to positive outlets.
I don't have bad luck, I've just walk a lot in the last 40 years; 2 of the scooter and one of the bicycles happened on pedestrian streets and the riders were making eye contact with me. Guess they though I would move. They thought wrong and didn't account that I stable base when about to get hit.
The last scooter hit was in a blind corner, but low speed, so I was able the hug the guy to stop him from falling (skill I learned on the blind corners of the LG metro stop when two trains roll in simultaneously). The last bicycle hit has someone riding on a sidewalk assuming I'd move onto the road for them while jogging. I didn't move for them, and they miscalculated the physics of about 300N the edge of their handlebars.
For the cars, one was a driver hopping a curb, knocking me into a park. Cop said they wouldn't follow up because I didn't have a plate. One was a car turning right on red when I had a pedestrian walk signal, cop said RtOR is legal so I should have been looking out for the car. Last one was a plow pick-up backing into a crosswalk (and me) to turn around; while I had a plate and a witness that time, cops said their investigation couldn't confirm the truck hit me, I might have just slipped on the ice.
You'll also notice that 5/6 low speeds i could have avoided, but chose not to, while i had 0 agency in all three car collisions.
The carving space out of the Commons part means we should be segregating bikes and scooters from pedestrians, but at the cost of car space, not sidewalk.
I don't disagree; my point is that these statistics are coming out woth an agenda behind them, whem the total number of annual scooter injuries is half that of car fatalities (2k) alone. And two orders of magnitude smaller than car injuries (119k).
We brush off the massive carnage as daily business (I guess 5x daily) but stress some electric scooters.
We've got jurisdiction's, like Ontario, actively trying to remove safety features for vulnerable road users, and this messaging is part of that endeavour.
I've been hit by 3 scooters (I don't know of they were electric or not) 2 bicycles, 2 cars, and 1 trucks so far this lifetime.
Now, I do weigh north of 100kg, so im a thick target. But, in 5 of those crashes I had no injuries, and the hitter had no to minor injuries. In 3 of those crashes I've had minor to major injuries, and the hitter had no idea I even existed. I'll let you devine which were which.
Anyway, the solution is more tarmac in the Commons dedicated to slow speed vehicles, preferably that isn't carved out of the <5% we dedicate to pedestrians.
If people are bad at driving, then you need more non-driving options so they don't have to drive.
I've got a friend in the Toronto area who is a terrible driver, knows she's a terrible driver, and is insured at terrible driver rates; but there's just no practical alternative for her.
Stop signs should generally be replaced with roundabouts and speed tables. Stop signs that get ignored are a great example of design not matching needs.
I agree, I'm just curious if you see more sidewalk riding because the roads are so unsafe, thus making the adjacent sidewalks unsafe, thus making sidewalks appear more unsafe than they really are.
It's not an easy factor to tease out of the data; and frankly it's a discussion that should be avoided because it pits cyclists and pedestrians into discussion about the sliver of space left over when tons is already given to motorists.
I believe you, but I'd still like to see it first.