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> London show 73 pedestrian and six cyclist fatalities in 2019

London has a 13 times the population of Oslo, so they are on the same order of magnitude in regards to pedestrian and cyclist deaths.

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Here's a good comparison. Portland has a population of ~600,000 and there were 50 traffic deaths in 2019: https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/12/vision-zero-por...

What Oslo has been able to accomplish is truly astonishing.

If you take the average Oslo deaths over 2019 and 2020, which is 0.5, then London would have one order of magnitude more deaths per capita than London.

Maybe cities of different size cannot be compared 1 to 1 and due to it’s size it’s London being orders of magnitude better?

We don’t know that, so it doesn’t really make sense yo compare them.

Not that simple. I have a hunch that network effects play huge role too. Chances of london having two orders of magnitude car/pedestrian interactions more than also are not low. So the chances of fatality per interaction could be comparable. But you have shitload more of them in london since everything is bigger there so you clock more miles.

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