Hey, what's up guys? So, question for you today: You're a human, right? Which means
you want to live a long, healthy, happy life, right? Of course you do. So I have a tip for
you today. You can do all that with just one little adjustment to your morning routine.
This is all about your morning commute, so your first step is to get on
your bike and ride.
Second step: Is to lock up your bike, preferably at a bike rack, and get on transit.
Once you get off the train, walk the rest of the way.
Congratulations, you're going to live a long healthy life. Yeah, OK, I'll admit it's a
bit of a simplification, but I'll get to that in a minute. First of all, I should
say that a lot of this came from a conversation I had recently with Dr. Kay Teschke,
who's a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and
she and her team have done some really interesting research into urban cycling.
Specifically around urban cycling and safety, and even more specifically around
urban cycling safety and our perceptions of safety. Here's a little quiz for you:
Which of these bike routes do you think is safest?
OK, got it? Well, this is what most people told researchers.
They thought the separated on-street bike lane was safest,
followed by the shared pathway. Makes sense, right?
They seem safe and easy. The question is, were people right? And the answer is
kind of, but not really. So, yes people thought the separated on-street bike
lane, or a cycle track, was the safest and the research bore that out. Yes that's the
safest. But people really overestimated the safety of a shared pathway like this one.
Here's why.
We tend to design those off-street paths in a very different way
than we design roads. They tend not to have street lighting and they often make
them curvy to be interesting, and then the sight lines are terrible. The bollards!
The gates, the posts, the street furniture. All of that stuff that just attracts people.
Like, you look at it to try and avoid it and the next thing you know you've met it.
And we don't put posts and bollards in the middle of roads.
It's our obligation to design them right.
Also, this one was a bit weird, but the study found that bad bike infrastructure was actually more dangerous than having no
infrastructure at all in some cases. Maybe that's not weird.
So what does this mix of cycling, transit and walking have to do with a healthy life? This is kind of an
oversimplification of some other research Dr. Teschke's team did.
This study looked at fatality rates per 100 million person trips. These are U.S.
numbers, so remember these rates are different in different countries. There's
lots of different ways to slice and dice these numbers, but this is what Dr. Teschke's
team looked at. So the first one was drivers, so car drivers.
Their rate came in at about 9.2. so just about here, and the scale
will make sense later. I'll write that in there. Pedestrians was
slightly higher than that at about 13.8, and cyclists were a little bit higher
than that about 21. So as you can see these numbers are different, but not all
that different. As Dr. Teschke said, not an order of magnitude difference. And that
will make sense when we look at some these other numbers. So check this out.
Check out this bus number. This comes in at 0.4. It's barely registers. That's by
far the safest way of getting around. When it comes to fatalities, that is an
order of magnitude different and then the really big shocker is, look at this:
motorcycles. This comes way up off the charts almost. Tthis is why the scale is
like that. 537. So you can see when you look at these numbers how really there's
not much difference between driving walking and riding your bike.
They basically have the same rates .But what's really safe is the transit and what's
really dangerous, sadly, is riding a motorcycle. So that's where this idea of
the perfect commute comes in. You walk a bit because you get exercise.
You ride a bike a bit because you get exercise, like that guy. But you also take
transit because that's by far the safest mode. You see? The Perfect commute.
As for me, I like riding a bike, so that's what I'll continue to do.
Besides, it's as safe as walking down the street.
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