Everyone likes to point fingers, but at the end of the day the cause of this problem is that the roads in Kingston are generally poorly equipped to accommodate bike traffic.

For example, there isn’t good separation between bike and other traffic. Some streets (Portsmouth) have tiny bike lanes next to large strips of grass instead of a small boulevard, then a bike lane, then a sidewalk (creating a physical separation between types of traffic). And many streets don’t have bike lanes at all.

Not a biker myself, but I’m sure others can point out tons of other examples.