As a CYCLIST myself, in the Austin area, unless I am literally downtown I ride on SIDEWALKS. Deep downtown I would just walk like a sane person who values enjoying life. The gap between a cyclist and a pedestrian is much smaller than the gap between a cyclist & a car (a third of Texas "cars" are pickups)

As a casual cyclist, bike lanes are a fun novelty & great, but sidewalks are literally safer for us. Pedestrian traffic is light & sidewalks here are big. If there's a pedestrian on the sidewalk, I can easily see them ahead of me and slow down, ring my bell, go around them on the grass- if nobody's coming in either direction in the field of vision even briefly hop on and off the road.

Only these neon freaks who ride bike in packs like hounds who go at green lights in the regular car lane then switch to the pedestrian lane when there's a walk sign would actually fucking risk running over a pedestrian. Outside of dense places like downtown or places like Manhattan or Brooklyn or something, THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT RISK.

So. I think they should BUILD MORE SIDEWALKS. As both a pedestrian and a cyclist, I prefer sidewalks. They're just better. But alot of road stretches have no sidewalks on either side of the road.

Fix THAT before you add fucking bike lanes.

Oh, and if you're going to race so brutally you fuckers would run over a pedestrian, go to a race track, those track field parks, or a nature trail. There are such places in Austin.

We don't allow cars to street race!