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.
Comment on Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
Auth@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe news. Now people will say “Helsinki had an entire year of no traffic deaths why arent you more like Helsinki”
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Auth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Impossible, I’ve seen Aussie Dash Cams.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yes well maybe we can set the bar a bit lower by starting with a town of say… 500 people.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 months 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.
No1@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Actually, they’ll probably go the other way:
"Helsinki had no traffic deaths but at what cost?
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Sure it’ll save a few lives, but millions will be late!
No1@aussie.zone 2 months ago
“And we could save millions of dollars* by raising the speed limit!”
*Costs of deaths not included
noodlejetski@piefed.social 2 months ago
the cost of being a capital city of one of the happiest nations on the planet
Auth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
thats me when I hear this news