Hint: They're made for walking...
Pay close attention because I’m only going to say this once. Cyclists have it rough sometimes. Hope you caught it because I won’t be repeating it.
Yes, they’re a menace for every runner, but at the end of the day they have to deal with cars, as do runners you demons on unmotorized wheels…but I digress.
Any modern pedestrian can tell you that the sidewalk can be a dangerous place as well.
But usually we have to deal with mixed signals, alternating side choices, strollers, and the ever-present smart phone blocking awareness, it can get ugly really fast.
Of course the battle of transportation modes is a struggle dating back to the beginning of mankind. Normally this would be a hyperbolic statement, but seriously.
From foot travel to horses, horses to carriages, carriages to streetcars, streetcars to motorcars, and motorcars to outrageously over-sized vehicles, and still we haven’t learned to look out for the less speedy (and/or armored-car) among us.
I suppose all we can do is look both ways and hope no car doors open in front of us and cyclists remember-you are the cars of the running path.
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Check out the history of the battle for the street and the sidewalk in the article below…it’s awesome.
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“The Pedestrian Loses the Way”: New York Times READ THIS
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