The debate between Rep. Jerry Nadler and U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy centers on the perceived dangers of public transportation, specifically subways. Justin Fox argues that the safety statistics illustrate cars are significantly more hazardous than subways. Despite recent subway violence, the risk for riders is minimal compared to traffic accident fatalities. Duffy's narrative misrepresents congestion pricing, framing it unfairly as a burden on poor drivers while evidence suggests otherwise. His stance reflects a deep-seated preference for car-centric policies over public safety.
It is awful and unacceptable that 10 people were murdered in the subway system in 2024. Convert that to the standard way of measuring mortality risk, deaths per 100,000 population, and the risk for someone who rode the subway 500 times in 2024 is 0.4 in 100,000. The risk of being murdered underground is ... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the U.S.
Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety.
Duffy has devoted virtually all of his considerable bluster towards depicting the subway as a dangerous place, despite the statistics showing otherwise.
Duffy holds the car as a sacred American value, something he'd place just after the Second Amendment.
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