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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh boy... getting popcorn... waiting for the hard-core Bicyclist rights people to attack in full force.  They are even more fanatical than "the angry left lane of the road is only for passing" mob.   [/quote]

Shouldn't be controversial. Most sidewalks have room for both, if bicyclists are considerate and pedestrians are aware.[/quote]

So by 'aware' you mean have eyes in the back of our head so we can see you coming by?  I always liok around to be 'aware' but 9 tines out 10 a biker or scooter will whiz by me by inches having never said anything.[/quote]

A considerate bicyclist wouldn't do that, and you sound like an aware pedestrian, but most pedestrians are not.

You and I would do well passing each on the sidewalk—I would slow down and alert you, you would be aware that you can't just wander everywhere.

I mean, these problems are not just rider-walker issues—people ambling around, obliviously wandering back and forth are a bane to joggers, and as a bicyclist who does not tear around at top speed, I also am surprised and brushed aside by inconsiderate bicyclists flying past me.

My point is that this problem shouldn't be that hard to deal with—if more pedestrians did what you do, and more bicyclists did what I do, we wouldn't have anything to complain about. [/quote]

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