I'm not looking for an argument, but the sidewalks where y'all live must be PACKED! On any given day, no matter how far I have to ride, or whether I take the street or the sidewalk, I encounter less than a dozen people on foot. Folks here JUST DON'T WALK all that much. All the talk about bike riders being "DUI bums", heck, WALKERS around here are mostly like that!

Sidewalks are legal here, outside the "business district", and if I have my nephew & daughter with me, we'll do sidewalks. (Seriously, the biggest 'on-foot' cross-section of folks we encounter are those waiting at BUS STOPS!)