• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Maybe depends on where you are living, but you quite probably have the wrong impression.

    In my country (Germany), less than 3000 people die each year in traffic overall, while already an estimated 4000 pedestrians die while simply using stairs.

    So, “Stairway to Heaven” gains a whole different layer of meaning, as it seems… :-)

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      23 hours ago

      Goddamnit.

      Yet again, I have to say:

      “And people think Germans have no sense of humor.”

      … You got a chuckle out of me with that one, goddamnit, hahah!

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      2 days ago

      I would expect that pedestrian walk far less distance than cars drive, so even a twofold difference in absolute numbers will disappear when normalised by distance. For instance there is a general advice of walking 10k paces every day which is about 7km, average car speed in the city should be around 30km/h, so even if we assume 30 minutes of commute every day (and this is too generous, I believe) it will be more than two times the distance people (should) walk

    • [deleted]@piefed.world
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      3 days ago

      I don’t think people commonly refer to people using the stairs as being pedestrians.