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When I lived in College Station Texas I had to use a bike (because I was broke) but I stuck to the sidewalks, rules be damned This was essentially my strategy
by jimbob45 4y ago
When I lived in College Station Texas I had to use a bike (because I was broke) but I stuck to the sidewalks, rules be damned
This was essentially my strategy too. Bike lanes in the back streets, exclusively sidewalks on the risky streets.
- pmontra 4y agoI'm a cyclist and I hate bicycles on sidewalk as much as I would hate cars driving there. They increase risks for pedestrians that have done nothing wrong by walking on a sidewalk. We cyclist must accept our risks and stop offloading them to other people. Furthermore sidewalks have a worse pavement than roads, are full of obstacles (including pedestrians) and are a slower way to get to destination, but that's another story.
- ramraj07 4y agoI guess you’ve never been to a Texan town then. Literally no one is on a sidewalk, and if there’s more than one person in the sidewalk per mile, I’d get off the sidewalk. I suppose you’ve also not seen southern drunk (or even sober but texting) kids in raised trucks driving either.
- pmontra 4y agoI confess I didn't. My remark is addressed particularly to cyclists of dense cities where we have more people on sidewalks than inside cars (but still a lot of cars.) Unfortunately there are plenty of bicycles on sidewalks.