A total of 35,092 people died in US automobile accidents in 2015, according to USDOT. That represents a 7.2 percent rise from 2014, the largest since 1966.
logos
5 Matching Annotations
- Last 7 days
-
www.cnu.org www.cnu.org
-
-
A person reduces his or her chance of being in an accident by more than 90 percent by taking public transit instead of commuting by car. Public transportation is ten times safer per mile, APTA says.
logos
-
- Feb 2026
-
www.city-journal.org www.city-journal.org
-
Finally, to some extent we should not be thinking about these effects from a quantitative perspective
Claim of value: The author argues that qualitative impacts matter more than numerical data when evaluating fare-free transit
-
Because drivers no longer had to challenge people attempting to board without paying, the argument goes, they could focus on driving the bus without worry.
Logos: The author uses logical cause-and-effect reasoning to suggest that eliminating fare enforcement reduces conflict and improves driver safety.
-
assaults across the system during this period fell by 15.4 percent
Claim of fact: The author argues that safety improved system-wide, not only because of fare-free buses.
-