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#1 2016-11-05 20:06:34

MichaelBluejay
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Cycling is 14 times more dangerous than driving

Streets.mn offers this graph, which suggests that cycling is 14x more dangerous than driving:

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That's not far off from the 3x to 10x range I came up with on Bicycle Universe.

Sadly, they also show how much more dangerous transportation is in the U.S. compared to Europe:

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