Re: Economics and law

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No doubt the SU's transportation safety, and
industrial workplace
safety
were not perfect. I think that the basic structural
emphasis on
non-auto ,
mass transportation ,(as you mention below , fewer
cars), is the first
argument that  the Soviet overall transportation
system had a
fundamentally
safer structure. I think this proposition is correct:
Emphasis on mass
transit other than auto is itself a fundamentally
safer approach.
---

BTW I'm not sure most Muscovites even know how to
drive (it's kind of like Manhattan that way). What
for, when the metro can take you anywhere you want to
go under 40 minutes?

You could probably get stats on Gorbachev-era auto
fatalities if you looked hard enough. Maybe older data
has been released following the opening of the
archives. (The Brezhnev-era media were famous for not
reporting things like airplane crashes, because Soviet
planes weren't supposed to crash.) Moscow has about 25
deaths from car accidents today a week (quoting from
memory) out of a population of about 10 million, plus
3 million daily commuters, with 2.5 million cars as of
2001, which is 5 times as many as in 1991. How does
that compare to, say, NYC?



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