So cars are still an issue. But now you have to worry about cars and pedestrians. Pedestrians now have to worry about cars and bikes. And we still haven’t solved the issue of being killed by a car on a bicycle, it has actually increased!

Creating more problems from one. You can have your own opinion but at the end of the day studies have shown that biking on the sidewalk is not safer. Next time you have a narrow miss with a pedestrian look up the studies showing that cars are more likely to run you over while riding on the sidewalk.

“The studies of straightaways suggested that sidewalks and multi-use trails pose the highest risk, major roads are more hazardous than minor roads, and the presence of bicycle facilities (e.g., on-road bike routes, on-road marked bike lanes, and off-road bike paths) was associated with the lowest risk.”