I'm so happy to see all the family cargo bikes in my neighborhood!

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Anonymous wrote:Kuddos to the dad on the big cargo thing with a big rain box tent on the back and the two kids in it, downtown this morning!!

i am baffled by the complete lack of safety rules regarding kids on bikes. if children are in a car, they have to be in car seats or belted in. but if they're on a bike, then a plastic tent is cool?

A plastic tent is for rain. You can technically have a kid in a convertible with the top down while it's raining. Maybe a jerk move, but legal?

There are safe ways to have a kid on a bike, but it sounds like maybe you aren't familiar with them. If you want to bike with a kid, there are plenty of people who will share with you what works and what doesn't. If you have no interest in doing so, then please just drive carefully and patiently, especially around pedestrians and bicyclists and especially children.

So basically you're saying: "It's fine! I'll just be really careful! It's up to other people to make sure we're not in an accident!"

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No one would ever accept this logic with children in cars.