Which is why I said I slow up or stop at every intersection and I make eye contact with drivers. So far so good.
Let me reiterate: Do I ride on sidewalks all the time? No. If there are pedestrians I walk the bike. Not if there are MUPs - there often are. Not if it’s a quiet neighborhood. I will take bike lanes in places that are 35 mph or less. It works surprisingly well. Sent from my iPad > On Jan 31, 2020, at 3:50 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > Be extremely careful at intersections. You're not where drivers expect you > to be, you're going much faster than pedestrians would be going, and you may > be going in an unexpected direction. All this adds up to a much better > chance of a collision at an intersection than you might think. > > On 1/31/20 6:24 PM, Leah Peterson wrote: >> So is texting and driving (illegal), but it’s rampant. So I’ll use my common >> sense over obeying the rarely enforced sidewalk law. I’ll chance a ticket >> over a funeral. >> >> I rode on a main thoroughfare today on the sidewalk. By the police station. >> With police passing by. I should technically be using that bike lane, but >> not a soul was using the sidewalk, so nobody - including the police - cared >> one whit. I went on my merry way. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jan 31, 2020, at 3:07 PM, "bruce.herbit...@gmail.com" >>> <bruce.herbit...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Riding on the side wallks is illegal where I live, unless the sidewalk is >>> part of signed multi-use pathway. I'm active in working to make our streets >>> safer for cyclists and pedestrians when they are crossing them. >>> >>> On Friday, January 31, 2020, 04:58:54 PM CST, Leah Peterson >>> <jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I agree with Mas about sidewalks. If the sidewalks are clear, use ‘em. >>> >> > -- > Steve Palincsar > Alexandria, Virginia > USA > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/8MGpURk85EI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/dc2168f9-70d8-5dae-b5b5-5621b799cded%40his.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/591F0D52-9833-4871-9E17-67E69A4344A8%40gmail.com.
