{"id":256571313,"date":"2013-02-17T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256571313"},"modified":"2013-02-17T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T13:48:33","slug":"comparative-risks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256571313","title":{"rendered":"Comparative risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinoxcenter.org\/sustainability-blog\/Factoid-Friday-Is-Biking-Safe.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-prn1\/530356_448779638515110_853094230_n.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and made this from the relative odds compared to driving:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash3\/574444_10151429164513076_1626839807_n.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Points:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a very good reason why motorcyclists should wear a helmet<\/li>\n<li>All cycling is way safer then driving<\/li>\n<li>All cycling is very close to walking (though with Maryland being the 8th highest in pedestrian fatalities cycling maybe even safer then walking here.) If we are not considering a mandatory helmet law for pedestrians, then let&#8217;s not consider one for cyclists.<\/li>\n<li>Cycling with a helmet may be biased toward bike club rides, where people drive to ride someplace nice and there is a safety-in-numbers effect when riding with a group.<\/li>\n<li>That is to say the helmet alone may not be the major factor here, bike clubs promote safe cycling practices among other things.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took this: and made this from the relative odds compared to driving: Points: There is a very good reason why motorcyclists should wear a helmet All cycling is way safer then driving All cycling is very close to walking (though with Maryland being the 8th highest in pedestrian fatalities cycling maybe even safer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256571313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comparative risks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256571313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256571313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256571313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256571313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256571313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256571313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256571313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}