Shaking My Confidence

[Trek420]

Liza, I'm glad you're ok, I'm glad everyone is ok.....but this is precisely why I don't ride on the sidewalk. There are parts of my commute/errands that I know I'd feel safer there but I stay on the road or find an alternate route.

-- they should have looked, just as they should have looked for pedestrians in the sidewalk.

But you're not a pedestrian, your traffic.....on the sidewalk.

So maybe they did look. And seeing a sidewalk visually they are expecting pedestrians, walking at human speed. They are not expecting something traveling faster them so even if they see you you're just not timed the way they expect/assume.

Sometimes we see what we expect to see; objects on the sidewalk are pedestrians and go ___ fast, objects in the road are traffic and go ____ fast. If I'm on the sidewalk with my bike I've just made a decision to be a pedestrian, I get off and walk or get on the road and ride.

I can understand your not apologizing, must have been frightening, I would have been scared too.