Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

As for wrong way cyclists being bad actors on the sidewalk, my observation is the reverse, most wrong way cyclists I see are ones who just jumped off the sidewalk to go around pedestrians.

I'm just frustrated to hear people complaining and speaking of this getting people killed, when I walked home today and counted no less than 30 drivers distracted on their cell phones.  That actually kills people, and unlike cyclists, it kills innocent people who've done nothing wrong.

No disagreement here. Now that I think of it, I can’t actually say what the wrong-way cyclists I’ve seen were doing 2 minutes before and after I saw them. If they were avoiding pedestrians I can see the point. Except the specific one I mentioned, that guy really did have a death wish.

I should be clear that I am an unrepentant sidewalk rider (when appropriate). My comment was more of a snarky assumption that somebody who drives on the road wrong will probably drive wrong on the sidewalk too, and endanger pedestrians while they are there. I don’t actually have a bad view in general of sidewalk riders, just as I don’t have a bad view in general of car drivers as a class — just the particular riders and drivers who go carelessly.