[consumer451]

I used to cosplay as a bike messenger in Seattle. I did not follow the rules at all on my ride to work. There were few bike lanes, and a lot of morons rode on the sidewalks.

I have only been to Paris once, but the cyclists were much more sane in my experience. The bike lanes were clear, and for the most part they stopped at a red light.

[saltysalt]

If car usage is going down but pedestrian injuries are going up? The pedestrians are not crashing into one another with greater frequency...

[consumer451]

Yeah, my experience was anecdotal. Also, cyclists can be assholes. However, they have less inertia.

What I would like to see is mortality rates of pedestrians in Paris in general. That might be the actually interesting trend.

[saltysalt]

I would wager it's the usage of payments and ignoring of pedestrian lights by cyclists is a big factor.

As a pedestrian, I've had FAR more encounters with aggressive cyclists than aggressive drivers (also anecdotal). Makes walking downtown more stressful.

[Mawr]

The difference in severity of a crash between a car and a bicycle is on the order of 20x. Are you seeing 20x more agressive cyclists than motorists?

Anyhow, talking about the hospitalization rate without the mortality rate is very odd and smells of manipulation one way or the other.

[aidenn0]

Reducing congestion can increase car speeds, which can increase incidents.

[saltysalt]

But they are reducing speed limits also, so this is highly unlikely...