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Originally Posted by Columbine
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.
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Of course if a street doesn't have a sidewalk, you do what you gotta do. That happens in America as well. But while American streets may be wider, Japanese sidewalks are a lot more crowded.