Where are your stats from? Pedestrian deaths across the US are at near all-time highs, but in contrast SF reports drops: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/pedestrian-fatalit...

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cyberax a day ago | parent | next [-]

Sigh. You people are like these climate change deniers who are saying that "the climate is cooling" because this year is slightly cooler than the previous one.

Your own article has a chart with the number of deaths by year, and the noisy upward trend from 2016 is pretty clear. But I admit that I did not check the data for 2025 before I wrote my post.

So my post can be amended to: "Increased or stayed the same". There is definitely no _decrease_ compared to the previous state.

	▲	hn_user82179 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Idk who "you people" is referring to. But the trends for the cities who have been spending moneys on these improvements are better than nationwide. Not to mention the article we're discussing (improvements in Helsinki) explicitly attribute the decrease in traffic deaths to the same kind of improvements Seattle/Portland/SF have been making.

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busterarm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Population in SF is also decreasing by large single digit numbers.