Originally Posted by
Drew Eckhardt
If there are any cross-streets or drive ways you're a lot more likely to get hit by a car when you're riding in cross-walks and on side-walks because cars are not looking for vehicle speed traffic there especially traveling in the opposite direction (aka "salmoning" like the fish swimming up stream to spawn).
This. In over 60,000 miles of bicycling starting in the mid 1970s through all kinds of terrain - 3 crashes, two that sent me to the emergency room. All three on a sidewalk. You think I'd learn my lesson lol . . .
