{"id":88517820,"date":"2007-10-22T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=88517820"},"modified":"2007-10-22T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T12:17:00","slug":"safe-streets-not-pedaling-can-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=88517820","title":{"rendered":"Safe streets &#8211; Not pedaling can kill you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A good article covering the following topics:<\/em><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biking is safer than it used to be.\n<\/li>\n<li>Cycling is safer than you might believe.\n<\/li>\n<li>Biking&#8217;s health benefits massively outweigh its health risks.\n<\/li>\n<li>Cycling is not as safe as it should be.\n<\/li>\n<li>Making cycling safer is a main chance for healthy, lasting prosperity.\n<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>Good cycling facilities.\n<\/li>\n<li>Bike- and pedestrian-oriented traffic laws save lives, too.\n<\/li>\n<li>Educating drivers and cyclists also boosts safety.\n<\/li>\n<li>Safety in numbers.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCycling advocates&#8217; favorite comparison of cycling&#8217;s collision risks.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<th>Activity<\/p>\n<th>Fatalities per million hours activity<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Skydiving <\/p>\n<td>128.7<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>On-road motorcycling <\/p>\n<td>8.8<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Scuba diving <\/p>\n<td>2.0<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Living (all causes of death) <\/p>\n<td>1.5<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Snowmobiling <\/p>\n<td>0.9<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Passenger cars <\/p>\n<td>0.5<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Water skiing <\/p>\n<td>0.3<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Bicycling <\/p>\n<td>0.3<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Flying (scheduled domestic airlines) <\/p>\n<td>0.2<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Passenger car post-collision fire  <\/p>\n<td>0.0<br \/>\n<\/table>\n<p>From Charles R. Murray, &#8220;The Real Story: Overdesign Prevents Cars from Exploding,&#8221; Design News, October 4, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2007\/10\/8\/143547\/109\">https:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2007\/10\/8\/143547\/109<\/a>oldId.200710221217466<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good article covering the following topics: Biking is safer than it used to be. Cycling is safer than you might believe. Biking&#8217;s health benefits massively outweigh its health risks. Cycling is not as safe as it should be. Making cycling safer is a main chance for healthy, lasting prosperity. Good cycling facilities. Bike- and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=88517820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Safe streets &#8211; Not pedaling can kill you&#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-88517820","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\/88517820","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=88517820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88517820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88517820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88517820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}