Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

When I was a kid, we were admonished to always have reflectors attached to our coats (back then the coats themselves weren't reflective yet).  A kid in dark clothing is really not very visible on a dark street.

Nor is a bicyclist in dark clothing and without lights, to bring this back to the forum topic.

Cyclists need to be seen by others for their own safety, but also for the safety of those others. A cyclist at speed doesn’t have enough visibility in many conditions to see things in time to react to them- a lot of bicycle lights aren’t positioned to improve that by very much, but at least the light makes them visible to people on foot who need to see them.

Nobody, whether on bike, or in a car, should be overrunning their braking distance.