33,000 is total bay area fatalities, so how many people drive per day in the whole bay area? I canât find a number. It has to be in the millions though.
I donât think itâs fair to compare everyone driving to work period in the bay area vs those using a car to commute that would otherwise BART - I donât think its the comparative population.
and property crimes are not equivalent to a potential injury in a car accident (i.e. your car getting stolen at BART and larcency (items stolen out of car) - so they should not be included - it should be the smaller 419 number I originally quoted.
Iâm going to disagree. Minor accidents can mean no injury and as little as a scraped bumper. I thought it reasonable to include minor things like larceny.
My original argument was based on the fact that people are scared to ride BART / get injured / accosted somehow - and my point was youâre just as likely to get in an accident driving your car. So larcency and auto theft shouldnât be included here.
âIn 2016, over 33,000 traffic crashes resulting in fatalities, major injuries or minor injuries were reported on Bay Area roadways. Fortunately, over 90 percent of those crashes resulted in only minor injuries.â
Basically public transportation is dangerous, unpleasant and a big painâŚNo matter how many Europeans try to shame us, Americans hate public transportation
We are also killed by the pollution including green house emission by auto. Public transport is much greener.
How about we use an even stricter measure like incidents that actually resulted in injuries? Crime on BART may well include people smoking weed which I donât really care. But if some random car crashed into me I may die.
Side rant: Why do we have to settle for less as Americans? We canât have good transport like every other developed country plus 3rd world counties like China just because we are Americans? That sounds pretty defeatist. Same with we canât have affordable healthcare just because we are Americans. We should strive for more not less.
Donât forget that SF is a third world country right now.
Many cities have better public transport than SF/Bay Area. Certainly NYC does. Busses come every 5 minutes.
Iâm just miffed that SamTrans doesnât time the busses to when private and middle schools get out. Itâs like the high schools are all they care about, and then people get upset at the rest of the schoolâs pickup lines.
