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Why Winter Cities Need to Reconsider Car Dependence

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We’re used to hearing “bikes aren’t practical here, we have winter” all the time. In this video we flip this on its head and ask whether it’s actually cars that are a dangerous headache in winter.

References: “Snow has a greater effect than rain does on crash occurrence: snow can increase the crash rate by 84% and the injury rate by 75%.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3141/2055-16 “Even with the changes in rainfall-related risk to approximately 1.5 today, values are similar to the estimated risk of being responsible for a traffic crash as a function of alcohol-impairment with blood alcohol level equal to 0.08 relative to sober condition”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692309000702

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