Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
I can't tell you how many times, while I've been running on sidewalks, that people on bicycles have run me off the sidewalk and into car traffic. That is the natural and predictable consequence of segregated bicycle facilities, as far as I'm concerned, and it's extraordinarily dangerous.
In fact there has just been a very sad incident here in Oslo, where a cyclist riding fast and erratically on a sidewalk teeming with pedestrians, next to a busy road, ran into another, slowmoving cyclist and knocked her over. She fell into the road and was killed by a bus. He was riding "against" traffic, not that that really means much on a sidewalk, but anyway. The saddest part is that many inexperienced cyclists opt to use the sidewalk at this spot because it feels safer - it's broad while the road is busy and feels dangerous, while in fact the road is quite safe as it has two wide lanes and traffic is quite slow.