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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
I hate that. Many American cities have dedicated lanes to cycle in, and it's much more efficient than a biker trying to plow through a crown of people on their sidewalk. Nothing more annoying than the ringing of a bell and screech of tires behind me because I'm supposed to move out of the way of a cycler on the sideWALK.
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America has, almost everywhere, MUCH wider streets, compared to a lot of Japanese neighbourhoods. Also not all Japanese streets have pavements, so peds share the road with cars and cycles, so why not let cycles share with peds? Japanese people seem to manage it just fine. Besides, if a car swipes into the cycle lane and smacks a cyclist it's going to do a hell of a lot more damage than if a cyclist is an idiot and swipes a pedestrian.