Originally Posted by
jeichelberg87
OTOH, I am happy you are able to continue typing; OTOH, I wish you would simply type a letter to your attorney or local police department and not ask for opinions as to who is right or wrong in this instance.
I believe you acted like a complete and utter moron for riding your bicycle on a sidewalk. Not only that, you were riding your bicycle against the traffic. Not only that, you probably did not even dismount your bicycle to cross the street.
Once you get on your bicycle, you are no longer a pedestrian. You have a lot of nerve thinking you are a pedestrian.
If you do not want to ride your bicycle in the street, then you should: A) get a mountain bike, or; B) Stop riding altogether before you get killed.
Interesting. In the town I bike commute in, the sidewalk IS the bike path throughout much of the community, and to cross the highway overpasses and stay within the pedestrian "cage" doing so is going to put you going against traffic at least half the time. Bicyclists are of course to yield to actual pedestrians on the sidewalk. It is a 40 mph 4 lane street with no bike lanes for the majority of my commute. I have yet to see a cyclist in the street there, though the route is fairly heavily used by cyclists....on the sidewalk.