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When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

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Re: When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

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It can be dangerous to be the only person or vehicle at a red light if you are a motorcyclist or bicyclist because cars can fail to notice you until they are quite close. Many motorcyclists apply and release their brakes, and sometimes add modifications to their tail lights so that they flicker when coming on to make it even more noticeable. I pay at least as much attention when I am the lone cyclist at a red light (…

Thanks for elaborating. It sounds to me though that the solution is modifying your tail lights to be more apparent, rather than running all the red lights. I will also concede that motorcyclists are generally much better on the road than "analog" bikes, at least when they aren't in a group and their loud-ass bikes aren't waking me up at 1 AM.

> It sounds to me though that the solution is modifying your tail lights to be more apparent

My tail lights on my bike are rather bright and flashy. It's still happened before. There isn't really "a" solution. It's better awareness, better visibility, everyone being more proactive, etc.

Re: When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

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Places with many large hills don’t tend to get many bikers.

You may find that San Francisco is an unusual place in a number of ways.

In which case we shouldn’t be using it as an example to argue about what should be done in the general case, e.g. nationwide.

Re: When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

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I don't think the data supports your assertion. Car drivers injure and kill a couple orders of magnitude more pedestrians in NYC than cyclists do.

You're unlikely to report every time a bike runs into you. Most of the time you won't even be really injured - just some bruises and pain. That's not big enough for statistics, but it still sucks as an experience.

My guess is that's the same for cars (minor injuries go unreported). It's hard to speculate about unreported statistics. The fact remains that for reported statistics, motorists injure far more people than cyclists, thus I say fear of cyclists is irrational.
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