I live in L.A. and have been riding to work everyday this week.Just ride on the sidewalk,nobody is walking in the rain anyway.You have to keep your eyes peeled for idiots coming and going from the driveways and making right turns,they WILL mow you down!

I've been riding on the sidewalk at times for 33 years in L.A.,never got a ticket.The cops won't get out of their cars unless a murder was happening,even then I'm not so sure.