Comment on Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The news. Now people will say “Helsinki had an entire year of no traffic deaths why arent you more like Helsinki”

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  • No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actually, they’ll probably go the other way:

    "Helsinki had no traffic deaths but at what cost?

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    • noodlejetski@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the cost of being a capital city of one of the happiest nations on the planet

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    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure it’ll save a few lives, but millions will be late!

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      • No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “And we could save millions of dollars* by raising the speed limit!”

        *Costs of deaths not included

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      thats me when I hear this news

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Agreed. Hopefully they can repeat this success in the following years to come to show that it wasn’t a fluke. My motivation for posting it here was to provoke discussion about the feasibility of doing something like this somewhere in Australia.

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Impossible, I’ve seen Aussie Dash Cams.

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      • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes well maybe we can set the bar a bit lower by starting with a town of say… 500 people.

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