Consider the following people: (1) a pregnant woman, (2) 60 y.o. with diabetes, (3) 16 y.o. female, (4) a veteran with an amputated leg, (5) an ex-athlete with

Consider the following people: (1) a pregnant woman, (2) 60 y.o. with diabetes, (3) 16 y.o. female, (4) a veteran with an amputated leg, (5) an ex-athlete with a bum knee, (6) anyone with a 50 pound package etc.... Now imagine it's mid-January and the boss asks the person to stay a bit later, say, until 7pm. It's a new moon and so it's going to be pitch black by then. There might even be a bit light precipitation or maybe some ice leftover from a storm earlier in the week. Would you say that the issues I mentioned shouldn't matter to any of these people? Or would you still say that they should suck it up and saddle up because only bike haters believe all of that stuff about ice or crime or darkness? Face it: many people don't want to commute by bike because they have good reasons to believe the ride will be dangerous and maybe even deadly.