Roody

But I don't have a hypothesis. The causal link between vehicular cycling and children being driven is so weak that any hypothesis based on it could only be laughable. My own personal experience reminds me that, like 90 per cent of my classmates in the 1960s, I rode or walked to school even though we had no bike lanes.

But this thing is so absurd, you must see that!

For starters, how many eight year olds have even heard of vehicular cycling? And how many parents are thinking, "We'd like our little Jimmy to ride his bike to school....but if he rides on the sidewalk, the VC police will ship us to an Effective Cycling Re-education Camp and we'll be forced to listen to John Forester on the loudspeakers for 20 hours a day until we are begging to drink the Koolaid."