Originally Posted by
FBinNY
I don't know if you found any polls, or are considering starting one, but I suspect that either way there will be issues of selection bias and other skews.
Polls often have skewed results either intentional or not, based on which questions were asked, how they were phrased and who was asked.
I imagine that if you asked the mom of young children about riding on the sidewalk and then an older person in NYC you'd get very different answers. The problem is that polls tend to posit things in binary terms, but life is more nuanced and often, neither answer is right.
I used to argue with people on BF who would explain why they were riding on sidewalks, now I only do so if they try to argue that everyone else should and/or if they claim that sidewalk riding is generally safer than riding on the road. I just think people are better judges of the safest way to ride where they do than I am.