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

• No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually, they’ll probably go the other way:

  "Helsinki had no traffic deaths but at what cost?

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  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

      *Costs of deaths not included

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  • noodlejetski@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    thats me when I hear this news

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Impossible, I’ve seen Aussie Dash Cams.

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think we have shot in cities if we separate cyclists. In rural areas we have no hope. Lots of bored kids getting drunk and driving too fast. You can’t legislate away stupid.

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