I feel safe. I enoy it. Most of the roads I use have minor shoulders; some have the shoulder wider than the prevailing lane for traffic. Drivers are almost always courteous and move to the left, even when I am standing by the side of the road answering a call of nature.

I'd like to see more roads with good shoulders. In urban areas where parked cars and narrow streets make this impossible, i'd like to see a more sophisticated approach to to transportation, adopting ideas suggested by many people on these forums at one time or another. Closing some streets to traffic; making some roads one way with parking only on one side; etc.

I'd also like to see cycling more effectively marketed as a healthy form of recreation.

roughstuff