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Not saying I wouldn't keep my car. The car would just become my secondary mode of transport because I find it ridiculous that I work 5 miles from where I live, but I have to take a sedan to get there (riding my bike is hard because it's a very small, high speed limit road with almost no shoulder to ride on). Thinking it over, I might just get one of those electric assists like I was thinking about a while ago and maybe just use that to boost my speed to near 30mph so I can at least stay more or less with the flow of traffic on my road bike.
Thanks for the stats on the motorcycles by the way. I was just curious, for my own benefit, what they actually were because I guess it may just be the area I live in. But I know at least 2 dozen people who ride motocycles/scooters or who used to, and only 2 of them have been in accidents, and very minor ones at that. One of those people is actually my father, which I think has something to do with his decision on the matter. He was struck at an intersection where he was waiting at a red light in down town Manhattan, when a motorist hit him from the side. This broke his right leg, but that was about it. He hasn't had any long term repercussions from it, but it has scared him to the point where he is 100% anti-bike.
Nice to see the stats. on the bicycles too, I had no idea the pedestrian fatality rate was so high compared to bikes, I would have assumed cyclists have the greater chance of being killed because they are actually in the road going, sometimes, no faster then a jogging pedestrian.
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