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Superior Risk Assessment (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Now find all the deaths on the highway in the last month :)

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not claiming that there's not more deaths on the highway, that'd be crazy considering the highways span the entire country rather than the NYC metro area and also carry more people than the subways, so like, simply by raw numbers "duh."

the highway network in the United States had a total length of around 4.2 million statute miles. One statute mile is approximately equal to 5,280 feet.

NYC subway length: 248 mi (399 km) (route length) 665 mi (1,070 km) (track length, revenue) 850 mi (1,370 km) (track length, total)

Yeah 4.2 million miles compared to 248 miles? Again I'm required to say "duh."

Conversely, though I never claimed The Highways were paragons of safety, others claimed the Subway is, when in fact the crime is simply "back down to pre-pandemic levels" which is to say "very much still there, but better, sure."

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So compare the deaths per mile traveled, per time travelled, per person who uses each as their main mode of transport, whichever metric you think would give a good representation of the relative risk of taking the subway versus driving on the highway

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Conversely, though I never claimed The Highways were paragons of safety, others claimed the Subway is, when in fact the crime is simply "back down to pre-pandemic levels" which is to say "very much still there, but better, sure."

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