OH NO!!! good thoughts please...

[Geonz]

There is a stretch of my route where the sidewalk is, honestly, safer (and the road isn't even that much less safer - if I'm in a group, we use the road). My sidewalk is almost ample ... and there's almost never a single soul on it... *and* there are no intersections with anything between where I get on and where I take a right turn off to campus.

Hoping the cyclist is okay... but if it made the news then it had to have involved people the news pay attention to like cops and ambulances.

[Melalvai]

There is a stretch of my route where the sidewalk is, honestly, safer (and the road isn't even that much less safer - if I'm in a group, we use the road). My sidewalk is almost ample ... and there's almost never a single soul on it... *and* there are no intersections with anything between where I get on and where I take a right turn off to campus.

I have a similar stretch on my route. I argued for a while that it was ok to take the sidewalk there, but eventually I was persuaded to stick to the road. Not for safety's sake, but because riding on the sidewalk sets a bad precedent and a bad example.

Bike lanes for that road are in the works, but I don't count on any promises.

[bouncybouncy]

Well...nothing! Nothing on the numerous listserves I am on...nor the paper. So, I am with Mimi...no news is good news!