The right answer to the share the road concept is.. it fucking depends. Mixing cars and bikes is no place for people who are incapable of common sense or basic pragmatism. I think the answer to bikes being in pedestrian areas is pedestrians should just yield to bikes. Problem solved. "I can't ride on the sidewalk, a pedestrian might have to step onto grass." Instead creates a situation where one wrong move by either party could mean life and death. The real reason cyclists don't want to use the side walk is for momentum. It's harder to maintain it. It's a fair argument. Fair enough for them to be in the street, when it is safe.
"Mixing cars and bikes is no place for people who are incapable of common sense or basic pragmatism." (I agree) "I think the answer to bikes being in pedestrian areas is pedestrians should just yield to bikes. Problem solved. "I can't ride on the sidewalk, a pedestrian might have to step onto grass." Instead creates a situation where one wrong move by either party could mean life and death." (Sidewalks could be built more like bike paths, where they're widened a bit, and divided with a yellow line, when a bike approaches from the rear, they simply say "Passing on the left", like they do on trails, and the pedestrian(s) cordially move over. With all the fucking money America gives to The Ukraine & Israel, we could already have the best biking system in the World throughout the Unites States!
I completely agree, Other than Wine Country on the east-coast & corn in the Midwest, and Oceans at East, West, & South, not a lot of scenery, bust the generational blight & decay caused by the Bureaucracy Industrial Complex that we call government... But the bike ride can still be pretty good.
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I think the answer to bikes being in pedestrian areas is pedestrians should just yield to bikes. Problem solved. "I can't ride on the sidewalk, a pedestrian might have to step onto grass." Instead creates a situation where one wrong move by either party could mean life and death.
The real reason cyclists don't want to use the side walk is for momentum. It's harder to maintain it. It's a fair argument. Fair enough for them to be in the street, when it is safe.
"I think the answer to bikes being in pedestrian areas is pedestrians should just yield to bikes. Problem solved. "I can't ride on the sidewalk, a pedestrian might have to step onto grass." Instead creates a situation where one wrong move by either party could mean life and death."
(Sidewalks could be built more like bike paths, where they're widened a bit, and divided with a yellow line, when a bike approaches from the rear, they simply say "Passing on the left", like they do on trails, and the pedestrian(s) cordially move over.
With all the fucking money America gives to The Ukraine & Israel, we could already have the best biking system in the World throughout the Unites States!
But the bike ride can still be pretty good.