Originally Posted by Suburban

I've only recently decided we can find a way to go without our car. A good chunk of the population are families. Who in the world is going to ride the small children on the road with cars whizzing by them too closely? I don't even like the idea of the bicycle lanes where a**holes park their cars with my kids. I'm okay on slow roads around my neighbourhood or the empty sidewalks leaving my neighbourhood. But I'm not going to ride my kids on the road with traffic passing closely at 50-55mph. I'd like my kids to see 18 years to start with. Our old neighbourhood we wouldn't have had the option to use the sidewalk and so we didn't give switching to bikes a pause for thought. If they don't separate cars from bikes, not a lot of parents are going to consider getting around by bike.