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Fair, but then again, this would be taking drastic measures for a single data point. A full redesign would be quite a stretch for a single accident and nearly impossible to scale. The least you'd need to do is check for a pattern of accidents.



Yet that’s exactly what the Dutch do:

https://www.bicyclelaw.com/after-every-crash-in-netherlands-...

> In the Netherlands, accidents like these are followed by intense investigations, street redesign, and criminal prosecution on a level wholly different from Boston, where a slew of bike fatalities in recent years have prompted modest on-street changes and police crackdowns on bicyclists running red lights. But there have been few street design overhauls and no criminal convictions of motorists in those fatal accidents.

I’m pretty sure there is an HN discussion on this article somewhere.

Ah, the highest level of scrutiny is limited to and mandatory for fatalities, which makes sense.




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