| > You adjusted 300 fatalities per year by a factor of 4 that you got from the number of transit commuters and the number of the motorists and got 47 people per day? I am still not following. 47 people per day is just the ratio from the NY troopers' site's statistics. If we use the NHTSA instead, it's 32. If you then adjust that downwards by 4, you get 8, which is an order of magnitude higher than the daily deaths on public transit by all causes. > Because you don't need to wait for bus when you drive? Sure. Instead you wait at gas stations, rest stations, wander through underground parking lots, and so forth. This is not a compelling justification for introducing a category error to the comparison, and I suspect that it isn't one that will ultimately favor your position (given that 5% of all violent crime happens in the first two categories). > I don't believe it's silent. I have reasons to believe a lot of people get assaulted on the bus stations and in subway stations. Sources that substantiate this would be fantastic. Absent those, it's an unsubstantiated feeling. > Perhaps they count "pushed under the train in such a way it could not have been written off as suicide or negligence on the victim's part"? The NYPD does not miss an opportunity to characterize events as homicides or other violent crimes. Again: unless you have a sourced reason to believe that the NYPD lied about homicide numbers in the subway system between 1990 and 2003, this is baseless. |