Originally Posted by
Santaria
Lady here at work always tells me daily:
"I know "The rule" says to ride with traffic and on the street, but I FEEL safer riding against traffic on the sidewalk...and I never EVER go over 5-10MPH because I fell down once."
I'll show her this, probably won't change her mind, but maybe when she's recovering from being ran over down the road - I can at least say:
"I TOLD YOU SO........."
If she's riding 5-10 mph then the sidewalk is a safe place to ride. She should have plenty of time to approach all driveways carefully and negotiate them without getting hit.
For most of us sidewalks are deadly because we are commuting and we need to go relatively fast to get to work. At 15 to 25 mph a sidewalk is deadly because of all the blind driveways and streets that cross it. If I really need to ride a bit of sidewalk I slow way down to do it.