[gracesdad]

Dumb cyclists. Cyclists who value their own lives don’t ride like that.

I am not a cyclist, but my brother is. He doesn’t ride on sidewalks.

[gridlock]

I almost clipped a cyclist last Sunday, the same way. I am looking to go straight across a pretty busy road. I check traffic both ways and start to go, and woosh a bicycle flies by my front bumper, right-to-left, as he goes from sidewalk to sidewalk on the wrong side of the street.

I just did not expect somebody to be carrying that kind of speed on a sidewalk, going the wrong way, in a residential neighborhood. This guy was really moving! So now the drill is to check both travel lanes, the opposite traffic for people turning Left, and both sidewalks both ways!

I just know that as soon as I have this drill down, some idiot is going to be coming off the sidewalk behind me to turn Left, and it's back to the drawing board!