@OhTheUrbanity

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Okay @yianiris, you've made many assertions about vehicular cycling in this thread.

Do you have any data to back any of them up?

To recap:

My contention in the original post was that major road intersections in the US and Australia would be safer if they followed Dutch road design.

That includes bicycle lanes that are physically separated car traffic and pedestrian footpaths.

You claimed, vehemently, that this was not correct.

Well, in good faith, I provided you with data.

https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01K2B1F0R06GD5M87EPBV3FZCX

https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01K2B1F0R06GD5M87EPBV3FZCX

To recap:

Cyclist fatalities are 44 per billion km cycled in the US, vs 10.7 billion km cycled in the Netherlands.

The average cyclist in the Netherlands rides 864 km each year, compared to 47 km in the US.

The modal share for cycling is over 50% in Utrecht: https://cyclingindustry.news/netherlands-further-builds-on-cyclings-modal-share-hitting-51-in-utrecht/

In contrast, just 3.2% of people cycle or walk to work each day in the US: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/acsbr-018.pdf

So significantly more people cycle each day in the Netherlands, which has protected bike lanes, compared to the US, which has few.

Road deaths in The Netherlands are at 4.19 per 100,000 people, compared to 12.84 per 100,000 in the US.

Multiple people have pointed out the causative mechanisms. They include @OhTheUrbanity @jakecoppinger
@Charles @LovesTha
@stephengentle
@johnquiggin and others.

Cycling on dedicated paths or on barrier protected dedicated lanes feels more comfortable to cycle in, so more people cycle than in mixed traffic.

On main roads, less contact with cars means fewer opportunities for accidents.

Now, you've written many replies since then.

Many ad hominem attacks.

(For example you falsely claimed that @vandenberglegs, who posts about many social and environmental topics, solely posts about cycling. Clearly not the case!)

Many frankly bizzare claims.

Little in the way of sources or data.

Do you have any data to back any of the claims you've made in this thread?

@pewnack @ajsadauskas
Post by AJ Sadauskas, @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] One more important point to share: Overall road deaths per 100,000 people. The OECD average is 4.28 people killed driving each year per 100,000 people. The Netherlands is slightly below this at 4.19. And the USA? It's at 12.84. Source: http...

gts.sadauskas.id.au

Fantastic video @OhTheUrbanity! Your well-reasoned easily-digested approach calls out the faulty logic so often used by the Left NIMBYs in my city. Every net-new unit built is a step in the right direction.

I don’t recall if it was you or @paige who discussed Montreal’s 20-20-20 requirement for new housing projects, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on the community and family components of this bylaw. Specifically, whether they are effectively a tax on new housing construction similar to how you describe requirements for a certain number of affordable units.

@ohtheurbanity

This is obvious but I need to say it. This is a strategically terrible time for a housing shortage.
If things keep sliding in the #US we are going to need millions of new homes for people coming to #Canada. People relocating to our country will make us harder to invade, but not if they're living in tents.
If this is the excuse we need for a federal medium-density standard, I'll take it. #canpol

Oh man...opening with a comment about how a neighbourhood is "soulless with no parking".... like we've graduated from carbrain to car soul.

Great video @OhTheUrbanity but you're very much nicer than I am.

After going to too many public meetings about this stuff, I haven't the patience to contextualize NIMBYs.

I would also note though...there is no building small enough that NIMBYs won't scream about monstrous condos taking over their nighbourhood. I have...no joke...heard this said with a straight face about 3 storey townhomes.

I moved to Toronto a decade ago in large part *for GO expansion and electrification*, the news this week is sad, but I've been living with it for a long time.

I wrote a long, detailed, emotional blog post about the situation, and where we go from here: https://nextmetro.substack.com/p/toronto-a-huge-setback-for-the-greatest

Toronto: A Huge Setback for the Greatest Transit Project in Canadian History, and How to Save It

The hardest post I've ever written.

Next Metro.

The united Conservative Party was supposed to win elections. By attempting to appease all types of conservative this big tent party scares away voters who do not like all types of conservatism.

Canada’s conservatives would win more elections if they offered voters a range of options and hammered out formal coalitions.

#ProportionalRepresentation #Canada #CanPoli

https://thehub.ca/2025/05/30/paige-saunders-and-sean-speer-the-contrarian-case-for-why-conservatives-should-embrace-electoral-reform/

Paige Saunders and Sean Speer: The contrarian case for why Conservatives should embrace electoral reform

If the system is working against Canada's conservatives, then they need to change the system

The Hub

An operating system giving pop up ads?!

I hooked up my old Windows computer to play some games and I keep getting this ad for a game I've never even heard of.

I'm just here to play Wind Waker and Red Dead Redemption 2!

I think FPP and maps of land based seat distributions really warp voters perceptions.

Of 343 ridings.
1: Toronto Center
22: Calgary Center
201: Red Deer
300: Battle River--Crowfoot

Attached, Conservative Voters per Square km heat map.

What electoral district in #Canada had the highest number of conservative voters per square kilometer?

#ProportionalRepresentation

Calgary Center
11.8%
Red Deer
11.8%
Toronto Center
41.2%
Battle River--Crowfoot
35.3%
Poll ended at .
While we're all having a good laugh at the ridiculous formula the Americans have used to set their tariff rates, we need to recognize that we're not immune to that type of policymaking here in Canada.