Even if the infrastructure exists, I would still ride on the sidewalk and never on the road. I’d rather scrape someone’s leg and deal with that instead of being potential road meat
Cars don’t think to slow down when coming out of parking lots. Even with a crosswalk or light. They zoom up to the edge of the road.
Sidewalks are the only places I’ve been hit (once) and nearly hit several times.
My only collision was getting t-boned on the sidewalk in 91 or 92. I learned the right lesson from it and I don’t do that dumb shit anymore, but I still have the injuries.
Cars don’t think…they are in animate objects incapable of thought.
You’re obviously unaware of Herbie.
You only feel safer. Cyclists are more likely to be injured and killed for each km of sidewalk as compared to each km of road.
Aight. Been 30 years never being hit on a sidewalk. Been hit on e in the road. My OWN stats prove otherwise.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with an obviously bad faith argument. Maybe it’s meant to be funny. I’ll read it again in the morning and see what I think.
Still not funny.
May hinder safety efforts?
I’m pretty sure this throws safety right out the window.
The fact is that these aggressively capitalist jerkwads know how much money people waste on buying, owning, customizing, repairing and otherwise operating their “personally owned” vehicles (since buying doesn’t seem to be ownership anymore, I have to put this in quotations because that’s what they call it; but it’s not necessarily what it is).
So all emphasis is put on cars, cars, cars! Everyone else better get the fuck out of the way, or your life is forfeit. They tried this a long time ago with jaywalking. The charge of jaywalking is almost entirely stricken from legal records because it infringes on your freedom to travel under your own power in open and public spaces, which is constitutionally protected.
