Most sidewalks aren’t properly designed to accommodate cycling in an efficient and safe manner for all who would use them.
Let’s not blame the cyclist for getting hit by a car, and instead build proper infrastructure so cars / cyclists / pedestrians all have their own path. Everywhere.
Edited to add: Here’s a simple basic proposition. With curbs each between cars / bikes / pedestrians.
Bicycles are much harder to see than other cars while on the road. It’s safer for bicyclers to stay on the sidewalk and look both ways before crossing any street, unless there is a bike lane.
Which is why we need infrastructure for bicycles. And we are terrible at providing that infrastructure, which is why the US is terrible to be a cyclist.
Sidewalks aren’t even safer, because of that very mention of visibility. Cars don’t see a bike while they pull out from a lot or driveway, and can easily hit the cyclist, and then blame the cyclist, and they get away with great bodily harm or murder.
We need better infrastructure for bicycles. And stop thinking with such car-centric attitudes. Because right now, all I’m getting are responses talking about how it’s the cyclist’s responsibility to not get hit, and that’s blaming the victim, again.
Think outside the box [car], dammit.
Edited to add: Here’s a simple basic proposition. With curbs each between cars / bikes / pedestrians.
Most sidewalks aren’t properly designed to accommodate cycling in an efficient and safe manner for all who would use them.
Let’s not blame the cyclist for getting hit by a car, and instead build proper infrastructure so cars / cyclists / pedestrians all have their own path. Everywhere.
Edited to add: Here’s a simple basic proposition. With curbs each between cars / bikes / pedestrians.
Bicycles are much harder to see than other cars while on the road. It’s safer for bicyclers to stay on the sidewalk and look both ways before crossing any street, unless there is a bike lane.
Which is why we need infrastructure for bicycles. And we are terrible at providing that infrastructure, which is why the US is terrible to be a cyclist.
Sidewalks aren’t even safer, because of that very mention of visibility. Cars don’t see a bike while they pull out from a lot or driveway, and can easily hit the cyclist, and then blame the cyclist, and they get away with great bodily harm or murder.
We need better infrastructure for bicycles. And stop thinking with such car-centric attitudes. Because right now, all I’m getting are responses talking about how it’s the cyclist’s responsibility to not get hit, and that’s blaming the victim, again.
Think outside the box [car], dammit.
Edited to add: Here’s a simple basic proposition. With curbs each between cars / bikes / pedestrians.