Stinson is a great example of how a lot of our early 21st century bike infra is of the age to be repaved, deal with tree roots etc. Unclear to me how that stuff gets prioritized by city compared to new builds.

Putting on my grading hat, it's a C+/B-. I get that the geometry around Monroe is tricky for about a block, but there are other parts of the section west of Monroe where the right of way exists to make it much better. County jurisdiction over the multiway fustercluck at eastern end is a problem

What about 18th? Suffers from being an older design, and Minneapolis seems allergic to tabling at sidestreets even on a lot of new builds. The wayfinding west of Central is horrendous, but other than that section I find it decent.

There are two genders

believe @trainsfan.bsky.social calculated the years of operational subsidy from the decommissioning costs, and it might have been less than 15 years. But still substantial.

Another great book on transportation safety/mortality is this one by Mark Aldrich. Trains also dangerous. The particular lethality of cars at a population level came from putting them in the hands of the masses and all over the environment.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Hard to know what Victor Gruen thought about modern zoning, but I suspect he would have recoiled at the wide separation of uses that surround the malls he designed.

It's published in BMC Medicine but it reads like a public health article.

I wonder if the multi-national nature of the author team and the comparative structure also plays a role here. I'm sure they're very focused on the data management and doing the analyses right, and as one draws away from the individual countries the policies become less clear to the author.

so where coroners indices exist, one could work this out with a population denominator. The trickier thing would be approximating the risk per hour of human time exposed to horses. More of the horse injuries seemed to involve just the rider/passengers of carriage.

Having read through the coroners index books for two places (NZ for most of the 20th century, and Hennepin County for 1910s and 1920s) I have pondered this question too. By 1920 it seems more car deaths than horse deaths, but 10 years earlier it's a little closer.

short term mental health benefits of ambling around are high though!

If you're down to a thin layer of ice I'm sure you could melt some with a cigarette? Maybe.

Seems like this is related to the problem of America lacking good mass-market medium quality bread at a decent price point. You can buy air filled fluff in supermarkets, or high-end stuff at high end artisanal prices. But mass market good dense bread, not really.

Wet snowfall on a holiday weekend is the worst. I remember Christmas/ Boxing Day 2009 was a bit like this, and sidewalks were awful. Apparently people give up on shoveling for the holidays.