• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      Any vehicle large enough to carry the necessary equipment and people for emergency services is going to be dangerous to pedestrians. Not sure what you’re trying to prove here.

    • dankm@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      Fun fact, many if not most of those ambulances are made in Canada, and not the USA.

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      8 hours ago

      The rest of the world often also builds better infrastructure, like a protected bike lane, to signifcantly reduce the conflicts between cars and not cars.

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        2 hours ago

        Most countries that do that are also significantly smaller lol

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          The size of a country shouldn’t impact urban areas that much. Cyclists aren’t biking from california to florida on a daily basis, they are biking from their home to their job, gym, or groccery store. Your country is not too big for bike lanes, you’re city planners are just wastefull.

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            22 minutes ago

            Oh I don’t disagree, just a fair point, it wouldnt make any sense in rural areas, which is 97% of the USA landmass lol

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        A bike lane would’ve helped. If there wasn’t one, I can see a good reason for whatever the fuck really happened here.

        If there had been a bike lane, he could/would have stayed there behind the stopping line acknowledging the right of the ambulance to go first, but without one…I can see someone in panic trying to get out of the way and then getting run over regardless of where he was positioned.