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The death of San Francisco's Market Street

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Re: The death of San Francisco's Market Street

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So many things wrong with this, but let's call out one of the most obvious: > But a bus will kill a pedestrian just as easily as a car will, which is why Market Street remains empty of pedestrian traffic No citation, just pure nonsense. As a pedestrian and cyclist: bus drivers are great. They have higher licensing standards, their income is tied to maintaining a license, they're well trained and professional. Meanwhi…

No citation for your nonsense either so I actually went and looked. It turns out busses get into accidents more often per mile travelled [1]: "the number of bus accidents per million passenger miles (3.04) is comparable to the number of car accidents per million driven miles (3.21)" considering that a bus has more than 1 passenger on average it means their accident rate per mile travelled is way higher than a car. 1.…

Not called out in that study: fault i.e. is this buses causing accidents or drivers hitting buses

Re: The death of San Francisco's Market Street

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No citation for your nonsense either so I actually went and looked. It turns out busses get into accidents more often per mile travelled [1]: "the number of bus accidents per million passenger miles (3.04) is comparable to the number of car accidents per million driven miles (3.21)" considering that a bus has more than 1 passenger on average it means their accident rate per mile travelled is way higher than a car. 1.…

Not called out in that study: fault i.e. is this buses causing accidents or drivers hitting buses

If you are implying that despite their superior driving skills and care for safety the bus drivers suffer from crazy drivers just ramming them due to being a big target then I'd advise you to compare accident rate on delivery trucks - they are roughly the same size as busses and drive the same streets in the same manner (with a lot of stops). I don't see any published study but it's easy to pull crash reports from the carriers, they are surprisingly similar at ~0.4 per 1M miles, much lower than cars.
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