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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by randomfool on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:49PM (#21380859)
This makes absolutely no sense. Cars are much more deadly than cyclists and pedestrians.

If cars are so safe then just ride in the middle of the street. It's perfectly legal- bicycles are classified as moving vehicles.

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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by u801e on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:59PM (#21381600)
If you ride in the middle of the lane and follow the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles, then it becomes much easier to predict what other vehicles drivers will do (vehicle type doesn't matter).

But if you want to follow pedestrian rules at vehicle speeds, then it's not going to work so well.

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