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Id rather be in a tram on rails in snowy conditions than in a private vehicle thats subject to slippery conditions and other vehicles hitting it. The tram if hit often has more mass and survives the hit better than a sedan would.
The rail transport is always the safest option, barring staying at home in the first place.
And if there's no trams or subs, but buses?
Here in Turku we have good public transport, but they're buses. Unlike personal vehicle, buses don't require winter tires. Theyre literally driving on slicks. (it's because there's so many and so much weight).
This will sound racist, but my city has a problem of hiring bus drivers and quite a lot of them may not be as experienced in driving in winter conditions.
There's also no seat buses on the city buses. (Long distance ones do)
A personal vehicle will have studded tires, won't have to use the completely shiny bus lanes (the buses stopping and going with those slicks really grind them into mirrors), and has seatbelts and airbags. So definitely personal transport is safer in my city.
Here what the bus stops and lanes look like at times. And this isn't even the worst, just one say napped a photo as it was slightly frozen.
Here's like worse weather. That. But everywhere. Then the most dangerously one is that plus a hint of powdery snow, because then you won't see the super slippery ice underneath and step on it unprepared.
Do you have any data or proof to back up your claim that private vehicles are safer than buses in your city? Buses running tires that slip could also be a symptom of underfunding, not an inherent flaw in buses. My car would slip too if i kept summers on it instead of quality winter tires. Buses tend to be much higher off the ground and much larger than everything else on the road, unless the bus rolls over most passengers would walk away with minor injuries in a collision.
Pff.
Mister hasn't ever been in a proper winter or understand how one drives in winter.
It's rare they crash, yeah. But it's happened and and then there's lots of tiny personal injuries, at the worst. Because of the speed in cities.
You don't understand how friction works with larger vehicles. They don't change them for a reason, not because we're a cheap country who doesn't regulate safety.
You can dig up data if you want to be but thinking a bus is less prone to losing control than a personal vehicles shows your inexperience.
Me too. The post is about bicycles though
This comment thread is about how cars shield you from the weather. I'd also rather tram part way and bike the rest if the conditions are nasty out.
I used to live steps from an LRT station. It was amazing. Didn't even need to bike because the LRT took me everywhere I needed to go in the city! (Well, I also had the option of walking where the LRT didn't go, lol)