^ The point is that some people are placing excessive scrutiny on proportionately tiny costs when it comes to active transportation and there's nothing incorrect about placing the costs in context. Improving road design, adding active transport infrastructure, and increasing the number of cyclists (and now escooter users) are all vital to safety. That's partly because of the safer infrastructure itself, but also the safety in numbers effect. Not to mention the lives saved by increased physical activity. In other words, much of the active transportation debate has literally been around safety and saving lives. Yet there are detractors (including Dartguard in this thread) who outright say things like "society DOES NOT owe you a safe corridor". If anything, you pointing out the safety value as justification for why the situation is different for massively expensive road projects actually validates LB's point.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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