{"id":4240,"date":"2010-10-13T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2010-10-13T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:25:46","slug":"safety-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/10\/13\/safety-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety In Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-10-11-theres-safety-in-numbers-for-cyclists\">this<\/a>, read it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After being asked by officials in Pasadena, Calif., if their city &#8220;was a dangerous place to bicycle,&#8221; Jacobsen began looking at crash data from various communities where bicycle ridership had fluctuated over time.<\/p>\n<p>What he found surprised him: The number of crashes involving bikes correlated with the number of riders in a community. As ridership fluctuated, so did the crash rate. More riders, fewer crashes; fewer riders, more crashes.<\/p>\n<p>This happened too abruptly, Jacobsen decided, to be caused by slow-moving factors like infrastructure development and cultural change. Bicycling becomes safer\u00c2\u00a0<em>when<\/em> the number of riders increases, he concluded, at least in part\u00c2\u00a0<em>because<\/em> the number of riders increases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more cyclists on the road, the safer we are. \u00c2\u00a0Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen this, read it: After being asked by officials in Pasadena, Calif., if their city &#8220;was a dangerous place to bicycle,&#8221; Jacobsen began looking at crash data from various communities where bicycle ridership had fluctuated over time. What he found surprised him: The number of crashes involving bikes correlated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}