Comment on Children among five killed as car crashes into beer garden in regional Victoria

• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Driving a car creates a higher risk of killing people than anything else most people do in their lives. Just look at the road toll. Don’t kid yourself, we’re definitely talking about a trade-off between convenience and risk to people’s lives.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes and the path of least resistance to minimise that trade off is to make roads and cars safer with separated footpaths and bike ways. Car-restricted and Bike-restricted roads should be introduced. Banning cars and trucks outright creates new problems

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