2026-09-14 10:23 UTC
Here are two reminders from my bike commute today that, despite all the recent high profile hand wringing in the NZ media about e-scooters, these are not the big reason why the streets of our cities are dangerous.
Of course it's all the cars.
It's a choice that we design our cities like this.
#nz #roads #Transport #UrbanDesign
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@joncounts@mastodon.nz 2026-09-14 10:36
I looked up NZ's road statistics so far for 2026. 17,635 road injuries resulting in ACC claims. 221 people dead. All just this year. Instead we're fretting about e-scooters being dangerous and needing more regulation. (Perhaps they do, but they're not the elephant in the room here.) https://www.acc.co.nz/newsroom/media-resources/road-injury-statistics/ https://nzroads.tfwelch.com/dashboard/ #CarsKill #UrbanTransport #NZ