"Women who ride"... on the sidewalk...

[mimitabby]

When I choose to ride on a sidewalk, I am always going VERY slow.
I generally ride on sidewalks when there is not much of an alternative; like
going from King street to Jackson Via 6th, that one block is 1 way the wrong way; so I ride the sidewalk and cross Jackson via the crosswalk and from there
I get back onto Jackson into the street.

[Geonz]

Right... when comparing to Europe it's important to remember that Europe is older than we are... and their infrastructures less automobile-centric.

[mimitabby]

I'm not sure what you're talking about, Sue, where I've seen a lot of bicycling in Italy, the roads were VERY narrow, often without shoulders, without those nice little guardrails too.
The difference is NOT the infrastructure, Italy's infrastructure is absolutely impoverished compared to ours.
The difference is in ATTITUDE. The average motorist in Italy has at least one grandparent who rode his bicycle to work, and maybe still does.

Who's want to run over their own grandmother?