[skr]

I want them on the sidewalks, too. An automobile is far deadlier to a bicycle than a bicycle is to a pedestrian.

[Melas]

Bicycles do not belong on the sidewalk, period. Maybe small children still on training wheels but that’s about it.

[Minn]

I want them on the sidewalks, too. An automobile is far deadlier to a bicycle than a bicycle is to a pedestrian.

Dead is dead. Unless road conditions are very extreme, providing no right side clearance or highway speeds, bikes belong where they have been for 100 years; on the road with cars. Hazards presented by pedestrians are far more numerous; unpredictability and dogs on leashes being just a few.

Even designated bike paths, on a nice summer day, are far more hazardous than the shoulder of the adjacent road. I'll take my chances with a driver that drives all the time any day, over some lard butt that just pulled his bike out of the garage for the first time all year.

[HungarianGypsy]

I want them on the sidewalk too and ride on the sidewalk whenever I can. I am terrified riding on the roadway.