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Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

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1163 points DaveZale | 2 comments | 30 Jul 25 16:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mzmzmzm ◴[02 Aug 25 20:31 UTC] No.44771148[source]▶
At the same time NYC and Toronto, we are removing protected bike lanes. In North America the acceptable amount of lives per year to sacrifice for a little convenience for drivers is above zero, and apparently rising.
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1. roer ◴[02 Aug 25 21:30 UTC] No.44771715[source]▶
As someone living in Copenhagen, I respectfully disagree.
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2. cyberax ◴[02 Aug 25 23:46 UTC] No.44772745[source]▶
Ah yeah. It's no wonder people keep mentioning Copenhagen without telling its dirty little secret. It stayed liveable _despite_ the scourge of urbanism because a third of its population was forcibly (via economic forces) displaced during 1970-s, and it _still_ has not reached the 1969 peak: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20894/cope...

So it was able to avoid the effects of the density-misery spiral. But it'll get to experience them soon. The transit will become more crowded, traffic more jammed, the crime will go up, and the housing costs (of course) will skyrocket.