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Scrivener7

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5. OK, so figure the average rider takes 480 rides a year. That's extremely generous,

Reply to MichMan (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 7, 2025, 07:25 PM

Apr 7

because many, many people take many, many fewer rides than that. For example, if I take 4 rides a month these days, it's a lot.

But suppose we're figuring each rider takes two rides a day, 5 days a week, for 48 weeks of the year, figuring for vacations, sick days, etc. That's still 10 murders for about two and a half million people.

Outside the subway, there are 7.5 murders for 100,000 people.

Still a LOT safer on the subway than off.

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Unprovoked attacks in subway are front and center in NYC mayor's race [View all] RandySF Apr 7 OP

BUT to put that into perspective, there were 579 felony assaults out of over a billion rides. Scrivener7 Apr 7 #1

After a woman was burned alive? RandySF Apr 7 #2

Walking around outside the subway, there were 7.5 murders per 100,000 Americans Scrivener7 Apr 7 #3

A billion rides does not equal a billion people MichMan Apr 7 #4

OK, so figure the average rider takes 480 rides a year. That's extremely generous, Scrivener7 Apr 7 #5

Not sure that is a winning political message MichMan Apr 7 #6

Not "city streets." America in general. In the United States overall, there are Scrivener7 Apr 7 #7