Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
You might be surprised how few members of BF have MUPs that go anywhere near the right direction for utilitarian usage. Your sidewalk comment will draw some fire, but even though I would tell you to stay off the sidewalks in New Orleans, I would not blink an eye if you rode them in the bordering community of Metairie next to major roads. NO ONE walks on the sidewalks in Metairie more than a block from bus stop to destination. So the sidewalk is just there - empty. Why not use it to bypass some high speed traffic operated by clueless drivers on tight lanes? Just be careful at the cross streets.
Yup. I don't care about the sidewalk fundamentalists here. I ride where I feel I get the best mixture of safety and speed. Sometimes that's the sidewalk, sometimes that's the road, sometimes that's the MUP. What others do is up to them, AFAIC.