folks i know nanaimo has had many nicknames through its years but let me tell you about the optics about the silly vancouver cbc journalist saying a mean thing about the smaller blue collar town

that could make sense for pedestrians, but then for cyclists there are 11 deaths in surrey and 5 in vancouver, and now I'm even more confused

lots of people now live in a zero-sum information game, where every piece of content either has to Advance Their View Of The World, or is Undermining The Good Thing From Happening

so something with a bit of context or "let's consider this in totality" gets approached with a lot of hostility

let's live in a world where we can push for better outcomes and acknowledge when things are improving or not

in the 2016 Census, 2.5% of workers in Metro Vancouver said they commuted by bicycle, the highest number of any major city in the country

How many times have you watched or read something giving you the sense Vancouver had the least cycling/pedestrian deaths per capita in Canada, with numbers steadily declining?

I bet it's massively smaller than the times you consumed content making you feel more afraid, and that things were worse.

And you could say "that's just a 10-year average, and doesn't actually answer whether things are getting safer in Vancouver."

Except they are.

Traffic related fatalities have been on a downward trend for decades, and since 2011 they've gone down fastest for pedestrians and cyclists.

Here's the data where that study came from.

It *only* measures the 10 biggest cities in Canada.

(except Brampton for some reason)

Based on the data provided, Vancouver is actually the least dangerous city in Canada for cyclists and pedestrians.

You would have had no idea.