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    Subsidised cycling - by frog



    The Freakonomics blog not is just a quirky read but also quite often says things that if a Green frog were to say them might be dismissed as the ravings of a watermelon commie hippie, but are actually the observations of trained economists.  So this week we have: My Dutch co-author and I biked to [...] read more
    June 6, 2008 7:06 am - 12 Comments
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    The Dutch road toll - by frog



    I thought it might be worth talking a bit more about shared space. In the Netherlands [pdf link] there were 804 road toll fatalities in 2004 and 34,181 injuries. In New Zealand last year there were 423 deaths and 15,730 injuries. The Netherlands has a population of 16 million people and New Zealand has a [...] read more
    March 13, 2008 8:54 am - 9 Comments